Re:Reddit Doubles Down
by lokar on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @09:20PM
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It will be overrun by nazis pretty fast. A lot as changed in 10 years.
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Re:Reddit Doubles Down
by thr_low_latency on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @09:43PM
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Yes, like the definition of Nazi and the fact that Goodwin's law no longer means you lose the argument.
It's not that Godwin's law meant you lost the argument. Godwin's law was just an observation, that a common evil, is an easy thing to reduce someone who disagrees with you to. So you have to avoid doing that, if you want to be able to maintain any level of discourse.
That, of course, goes out the window when the person you're arguing with legitimately identifies as a Nazi.
The issue is that other people calling you a nazi now means that you must be one. In short: Goodwins law.
Re:Reddit Doubles Down
by George83728 on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @10:18PM
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Nazis are very fringe, they don't outnumber anybody else and can't outvote people either. Moderators making claims to the contrary is ludicrous until you realize they're so far gone, they think anybody to the right of AOC is a nazi. Absurd.
> Nazis are very fringe, they don't outnumber anybody else and can't outvote people either
Respectfully, Twitter is kind of living proof of the opposite -- clearly they can overwhelm/outvote people (and even out-spend regular folks, if you throw an $8 price tag barrier up), despite being a small number of the total population.
Re:Reddit Doubles Down
by George83728 on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @10:51PM
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I don't use twitter but I sincerely doubt nazis outnumber regular users on twitter and I don't think you have real data to back up that claim. Remember, ragebait works by finding the most egregious instances of things and misrepresenting them as typical occurrences.