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    8 hours ago

    !I think everyone on here has good intentions. But many are proactive about it to a extent where they feel a duty to ostracize anyone who doesn’t. And they immediately start suspecting anyone who hasn’t settled on their systemic solution of choice of having said bad intentions. (“If crypto-anarcho-eco-mercerism is the obvious way to stop all the bad things, why would someone advocate for anything else than because they don’t want to stop those bad things?”) I think you could have a server where 100% of people had good intentions, and they’d still end up accusing each other of dog-whistling and whatnot. Like, you don’t need to ensure you share the same value system just so you can discuss a funny cat video.!<

    /rant

    Edit: perhaps this is the effect that continuously encountering trolls has on your brain
















  • Imo this comes at least partially down to the generic pattern of representatives becoming more conformist when they get into power. In my country for example we have a Pirate party, and they were quite radically progressive when they were founded but as they got into parliament+govt they became more centrist. You see this happen in many countries. I wouldn’t immediately jump to the conclusion that they are being ‘vetted’ by hidden elites, I think it’s very possible that its just an effect of the incentives you face in the process of competing in elections, facing the media, the environment in a parliament, etc. etc. But even if the latter is the case, it wouldn’t be a good thing since you have a diverse set of representatives representing a diverse society, and if the democratic system molds them to have a uniform set of traits then you are losing accuracy of that representation.