this post was submitted on 15 Dec 2023
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While this is true, what is the point of having genuine and difficult discussion on Lemmy / Reddit / social media (especially about societal issues) anyway?
Are lawmakers going to look through Lemmy threads to get legislative ideas? Probably not, right?
Fair enough, but it's still possible to discuss something without devolving into an ideologically pure circlejerk. I'd like to say it doesn't matter, but this is how we ended up with so much fake news in the US. Bubbles can be really bad when they start to change your perception of reality.
We ended up with a lot of fake news in the US for a lot of reasons, but I don't think Fuck Cars is likely to turn into a launchpad for the country's first left-wing authoritarian.
In other words, I think people are getting all jazzercized up about something that's essentially meaningless. But that's life too I guess. 🤷
EDIT: This country is very strange. People do nothing about right-wingers going on shooting sprees, but someone posting a slightly annoying image about how big trucks have gotten and everyone forms a line to decry it for "balance" reasons.
Oh I completely agree this is fairly inconsequential, but it's the sort of thing we should practice regularly anyway. The consolidation of an ideology is the first step in the death of the ideology.