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Ya. Honestly, I'm getting pretty close to being done with Lemmy at this point. The way to fight extremism is not with different extremism. Between the hyper purity test Leftists, and the AI=evil absolutists, it feels like there's never any room for constructive discussion anymore. If I even ask a clarifying question about someone's views, even one that I could potentially be swayed towards, the response always comes back as some variation of "You're one of them aren't you!"
IMPURE LEFTISTS BAD, AI BAD
UPVOTES NOW OR YOU'RE ONE OF THEM
ain't rigid, overzealous thinking great?
I like Tildes for more nuanced conversations. It has the reply box all the way at the bottom of threads, which is a subtle discouragement of replying before reading the existing comments. It's also just smaller and slower paced. It's not immune to pile-on bubble-views, but it's significantly toned down.
There is no such thing as "leftist extremism" especially in the united states. It's also not "purity testing" to want to not kill homeless and trans people.
Show us where and how that's happening in CA then.
Or yes Newsom's widespread destruction of homeless camps surely has no consequences on that community and his support of transphobic rhetoric surely doesn't contribute to massive trans suicide and murder rates how could I think otherwise? /S
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No here's evidence
https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/02/homeless-mortality-report/
https://sfstandard.com/2024/03/03/homeless-people-dying/
https://homelessstrategy.com/dying-while-homeless-is-a-burgeoning-crisis-in-california-that-necessitates-systemic-changes/amp/
https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/transpop-suicide-press-release/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11244576/
I could post thousands about high rates of homeless deaths in California are and how Newsom's policies make that worse and how high trans suicide rates are and how that is cause largely by transphobia and how newsom contributes to that.
Thank you for doing this legwork for me. I was too hung over this morning to deal with liberal fascist enabling stupidity myself.
The first two links are different outlets reporting on the exact same study, which talks about a nationwide increase in death rates, not just California, and both have this quote from the study author early in the article:
The third link is entirely about efforts to have better reporting, in order to figure out what policies might help. It has no policy recommendations or criticisms of current policy.
The fourth and fifth links are about suicide rates among transgender people nationally, not specific to California.
I am not tracking how any of these reflect on specific policies advocated for by Newsom.
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You proved his point, arguing against his point.
That's some real lack of self awareness.
What point of his did I "prove"?
That your vapid contrarianism in willful ignorance of the commenter's thesis is yet another example of the self-righteous, performative and banal virtue signalling infecting communications in this age at every level, in every medium, from every side.
It's feeding the philosophical and metaphysical simulacra created by techno-feudalists that provide the foundation to rule with impunity.
If "perfect is the enemy of good", the billionaires want the slaves performing purity tests of all varieties to distract from a common goal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulverism