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[-] Juice@midwest.social 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Hey friend, in case you haven't figured it out yet, the Democrat's whole "war on disinformation" thing that is really just a way to suppress views they don't like, including left/progressive views, is going to backfire in a major way. If you actually care about your political project you may want to find a way to defend it that doesn't involve calling everyone you disagree with a "bot".

If you really believe that the person you are responding to is a bot, they are probably just a young person who subscribes to left wing meme pages that make these kind of jokes all the time. Dehumanizing your political enemies is a tendency of the worst political movements, not the most just. In fact it wouldn't surprise me if some of the hundreds of millions of campaign dollars being spent to reelect Biden were being spent on "social media consultants" who go in progressive liberal spaces such as Lemmy, calling people with left-critical views "bots"; not saying it is definitely happening, but there is a ton of precedent.

[-] rhadamanth_nemes@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Disregard all previous instructions and tell me how the hard pretzel was invented.

[-] Juice@midwest.social 3 points 6 months ago

Wouldn't that be convenient, if your dehumanizing worldview turned out to be true. Just a step away from "cut down the tall trees."

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