Remembering to look for and ignore folks with that telltale indicator has made the fediverse so much more enjoyable.
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MLs are essentially incapable of arguing in good faith. You know how Christians quote to bible to "prove" their religion is true? MLs are the political version of that.
I opened a thread just yesterday and the top comment was "I recommend you read this article if you want to know what Noam Chomsky is really like". It was upvoted. I like to learn things, and don't really listen to a lot of Chomsky. So I started reading.
It was the most uneducated, biased, ragebait crap I'd ever seen posted to the fediverse. I started mentally building my reply about how "people are saying" is the worst kind of fallacy, and providing a quote from someone else with a different opinion doesn't count as opposing evidence. I actually got a little upset, disillusioned even, wondering how anyone could fall for this idiotic "argument". I didn't agree or disagree with any point, but it was just so poorly made.
I went to reply, thinking I should provide some warning, then I noticed I was in an ml community. I'm mobile, so it sometimes doesn't show the community until I've clicked (I know I can change that in the settings). I considered posting anyway, but it felt so fruitless. It feels like they're either sheep or assets. I moved on. I feel better getting to let it out here instead.
I haven't read a single exchange with a .ml tankie that hasn't been utterly juvenile roleplay nonsense with no desire to engage with reality, I don't give them any amount of my attention or even irritation, if kids wanna do roleplay stuff between games of Hearts of Iron 4, they can, but other instances should ban roleplay outside of their specific circle-jerking forum.
As someone leaning ML, this makes me feel like I haven't argued with my own side in a while..... Or I am less ML than I think I am.....
I have an ML account and usually just jump back and forth between .world local posts and .ml local posts and I swear I'm not seeing all this hostility people talk about anywhere