@isolategab The #Fediverse needs to grow and supplant the centralized forms of social media. Gab is a very large instance. We should see their addition as a large victory. As the #Fediverse expands your subset of it will shrink smaller and smaller. The only ones you'll succeed in isolating is yourselves. This will also not prevent anyone from laughing at you while this happens, myself included 😉. Bye bye! 👋
@buoyantair
Have you even been on Gab? Most of the people there are harmless boomer conservatives. There are a small number of alt-right people but they're a drop in the bucket.
@isolategab
But that one drop of nazis was good enough to push germany into fascism and whole world into chaos.
@buoyantair
If you want to block neo-nazis that's perfectly okay. I don't think it's fair though for you to tar all of Gab with such a broad brush.
@isolategab
@buoyantair
Why don't you just admit that what you're really concerned about is ideological purity? If you want to create an echo chamber and damage the #Fediverse overall do what you want, but don't expect me to buy your flimsy justifications. I've been on Gab. I know what kind of users are there. Most of them are completely harmless rubes. Again if you want to block someone like James Allsup I completely understand but you're average Gabber is just a conservatard with a persecution complex.
@buoyantair
Are you sure about that? Maybe you should check again.
@buoyantair
It's so frustrating to see all the progress made in the last 50 years being rolled back by useful idiots larping as "anti-fascists".
@buoyantair
Your ignorance is dangerous and I am undaunted by your smears. I guess the civil rights movement was a bunch of fascists?
@buoyantair
I love milkshakes 😋
The ones you drink or the ones you put cement into to throw at people whose words you don't like?
@nerdman
It's all about ego with these people. They think that being against fascism (whatever that means) is a brave and controversial stance to take in 2019. It's so absurd. Virtue signalling, ego stroking, and shaming/shunning anyone who isn't interested in that absurdity. It's not even about politics really. That's how someone as left wing as me can get smeared as a fascist.
@buoyantair
But of course it's brave! It's not like there was a VAST war that pit fascism against communism and democracy, where 10s of millions died in the fight.
@nerdman
I know. These terms are so antiquated. All the paradigms are different now. When you use the term fascist you just sound like someone who has no clue about current year politics.
@buoyantair
Yeah. It's like the words "retard" or "idiot". Both were clinical terms back in the day. Today when you call someone a retard you're just insulting them, not taking into account developmental studies. When someone calls someone else a nazi they're just insulting them, not saying that they're literal german national socialists.
@nerdman
I should cut this girl a break though. She's only 19 and at least she was willing to have a conversation even if it was just to insult. That's more than I can say about a lot of the SJW-leaning #Fediverse.
@buoyantair
@nerdman
Oh my god. If you're over 30 and still subscribe to all that moral purity and shaming culture there's no help for you. If you can't even recognize basic techniques for social control... 😬
Most SJWs are over 30. Kids are probably just pretending to pass their classes given by SJW teachers or live in a very sheltered environment.