AlDente

This is disgusting. 🤮

Luv you too boo! 😘

"That cloud looks like a dinosaur to me."

[The cloud wasn't actually a dinosaur. Down vote this punk.]

You know, you actually might be right. If the website was akin to a bar and the reasonable article was just a normal customer; however, the rest of the customers (i.e. content) were Nazis, then it definitely doesn't make it all a Nazi bar. That normal customer can absolutely be right!

Their exact words are still there, so there would be no point in lying about it. The exchange reads:

Maybe you should add "no dissent allowed" to the rules... -Diva

We already have a no authoritarian rule in the sidebar, so that won't be necessary -WSYU

It's may just be a joke, but it is clearly equating authoritarianism and dissent. That is all I was commenting on. I don't care about the fate of Diva or the banning of tankies. I just thought this back and forth was funny and ironic. I hope you get the chance to relax this weekend.

Not tolerating tankies and not tolerating any dissent are two completely different things. I'm specifically calling out the later. When suggested to add a "no dissent rule", the mod respond that they already had that covered. It sounds like reddit-admin kind of behavior.

Even outside of this specific instance, they're saying any dissenting opinion can result in a ban. If you think it's normal, you can enjoy your echo chambers.

Absolutely, I don't disagree at all. But by claiming to not tolerate any dissenting opinion, you are not "banning authoritarians"; instead, you are becoming the very thing you declared hatred for. I havent seen any evidence that Diva is authoritarian.

Instead, I've seen a mod openly claim that any dissenting opinions would result in a ban; and this would only result in the further developement of an echochamber.

Sure, it's your community, so you ban who you like. You don't need to justify it to me.

I tried steering the conversation back to my actual point, but it seems like all that was ignored. I thought your rule exchange was funny and incredibly ironic. You might enjoy banning any dissenting opinions, but don't be surprised when that earns you an "authoritarian" label.

From your other responses to this post, it seems like your primary beef with Diva was their anti-war stances in their post history. You can't play the paradox-of-tolerance card in response to that. To make your other strawmen relatable, are you saying Diva's comments are in any way fascist or transphobic? I haven't seen any intolerance in Diva's posts.

What I'm directly responding to is the exchange with the "no dissent allowed" rule suggestion, and you basically saying you already got that covered. Squashing all dissent is authoritarian, and you referenced your "no authoritarian" rule when responding with this. I don't believed I ever joined in one of these PTB discussions before, but this was just too much. Can you not see the irony?

If you're openly saying that you don't tolerate any dissent in your community, then it sounds like you're acting as an authoritarian. Perhaps it's time to ban yourself 🤔

Ah, you are right regarding the full dataset. Thank you.

It's strange that they start off with, and seem to focus on, the under-45 respondents unless they were trying to push a positive-viewpoint message. For that age group, it was 31% positive and 41% negative. However, this group seems like a better fit for the Lemmy/Reddit audience. Furthermore, left-leaning voters appear to be more positive in this poll than their right-leaning counterparts.

With all that in mind, I still think this meme works well and wouldn't have been improved with Bernie.