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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by UlyssesT@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

My practical answer would be, of course, right wing shit, period. It wouldn't stop them but might slow their spread.

My fun/funny/unserious answer would be commission an algorithm to monitor Reddit so I don't have to that keeps track of exceedingly popular passive-aggressive and smug ways to start and end sentences and takes the top percentiles of them and makes them the shockers of the week. It would make Lemmyverse liberals a lot less redundant as a side effect, too. sicko-wistful

smuglord "Umm, I'm sorry, honestly, but let's be honest here. It's almost as if..."

unlimited-power

wojak-nooo "Wow, vitriol much?"

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[-] dinklesplein@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Any time somebody talks about politics through the lens of 'tribalism' or boiling ideology down to a 'my team their team' situation.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Surely there is a middle ground where the Adults In The Room that Make The Hard Decisions can Get Shit Done by doing only half of the atrocities for a marginally lower increased rate of profit. so-true

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

God I fucking hate the muh "tribalism" bit. It's almost as exhausting as American conservatives saying

"RePubliC noT dEmoCraCy"

It's peak brainworms

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