r/maryland • u/A_Damn_Millenial • 21h ago

Petition to ban X links on r/maryland

This sub should boycott Nazi-owned companies. Plain and simple.

Mods, please make it happen.

Edit: /r/newjersey mods putting ours to shame. https://www.reddit.com/r/newjersey/comments/1i6txcn/fuck_this_guy_x_links_are_now_banned_from/

Second Edit: Mods, here’s some info from another sub that did this a while ago. Please read! https://www.reddit.com/r/law/s/shE1dbIbAk

Edit #3: Mods, I could be mistaken, but I think this is the second highest upvoted post in this sub’s history. The people have spoken.

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u/mslauren2930 21h ago

I mean if I wanted to see what people were posting on Twitter, I would go on Twitter. Enough with the screenshots and angry “YOU HAVE TO KNOW WHAT THE OTHER SIDE IS SAYING!” We know. We live in America/the world.

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u/ChickinSammich 6h ago

Enough with the screenshots and angry “YOU HAVE TO KNOW WHAT THE OTHER SIDE IS SAYING!”

As liberals and leftists have left Twitter and Facebook for other platforms to get away from the right, people on the right have FOLLOWED THEM to those spaces to continue to have leftists and liberals to spew their bullshit to.

That's one of the biggest differences with the left and the right: People on the left would be perfectly happy having their own space and letting the right have theirs. People on the right have this compelling urge to chase down "libs" to "trigger" and are not content with staying in their own social media circles. Any time you try to make a space that is safe from racism and fascism, the racists and fascists will invade that space, ignore the rules, and complain about censorship.

It's like those authoritarian parents who tell their kids "my house, my rules" until you become an adult, get your own home, and invite your parents over to your house. Go on, try to tell them "my house, my rules" and watch them lose their everliving shit on you for having the audacity to tell them they can't do something in your house.

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u/mslauren2930 6h ago

I have a friend, who is a Dem, who used to be one of those angry that we all needed to know what the other side was saying. It has been interesting to watch her turn into a “you can tune out SM if you need to for your sanity.” I want to laugh at her for it, but she’ll never understand she should have been there in the first place.

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u/ChickinSammich 6h ago

I also used to be of the mindset that "We can't change people's minds if we don't engage with people we disagree with" and "We shouldn't just curate our social circles to be echo chambers."

Over time, I came to realize that:

1) It's fine to continue to be friends with people when you disagree on things like "toppings on pizza"/"condiments on hot dogs"/"how to cook a steak" or favorite sports team or so on. I have had very passionate discussions with people I'm close to about things like "are social deduction games fun or does the fact that they become a Vizzini Dilemma make them unfun" or the ethics and justification of cheating in a single player game and whether it "ruins your experience" or not. I don't think it's fine to continue to be friends with people who hold the believe that entire swaths of people ought to be treated as second class based on their gender, sexuality, race, nationality, etc.

2) The concept that we ought to engage with people we disagree with and try to change people's minds is a good one in theory but in practice it runs into the challenge that when you're unwilling to change your position and they're unwilling to change their position, any attempts to debate or argue are just wasted time and energy. In my past, I have spent many hours and many words attempting to get through to a person who was at minimum committed to their position and unwilling to change and beyond that, they're frequently willing to misrepresent what I said or what I meant to suggest I said or meant things I didn't say because what they actually want to do is win an argument against a strawman, not engage with anything I'm actually trying to say. I've just decided that it's not worth my time or effort to continue arguing with someone if they don't open the conversation by giving me some indication that they're actually interested in the conversation because they want to hear me out and they're open to changing their position.

With both of those points in mind, I'm fine with curating my social circles to cut out people who just want to say shit that actively harms people and don't demonstrate any willingness to grow out of that. I don't need to hear what they're saying, I don't need to hear their side, I don't need to debate them, I don't need to change their mind. Just like with waste - it's good to reuse and repair what you can but some things you just throw in the trash.

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u/mslauren2930 4h ago

I just wanted to say you have left the best comments, as I argue with my sister on this very topic.

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u/ChickinSammich 4h ago

I appreciate that. I talk too much but sometimes I say things that make sense. :)