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oldie meme but needed to bring this back due to recent incidents 😭
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A large portion of the world is experiencing political polarization. I see the same things happening on Lemmy happen on other social media websites.
The “if you don’t agree with me you must have the exact opposite opinion” approach to debate seems to be more a problem of the participants than the platform.
tbf, that heuristic works ~80% of the time, which is way higher than I'd like, but that's the effect of polarization