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Is it? Or are you just in the habit of labeling anything that conflicts with your assumptions as being disingenuous?

The crown prince advocates for a democratically elected government to replace the current regime.

All these people saying “they want to reinstitute the shah” are basically just making a strawman

Dude, there’s not gonna be a peer-reviewed article on comment sentiments in lemmy comments. Just look at the fucking thread and see for yourself

You’re forgetting that nuance is forbidden. Anyone with a nuanced point of view is obviously a fascist sympathizer /s

Just kidding, fascists and tankies alike have no concept of nuance. They’re cut from the same cloth…

If I could get them to realize one thing, it would be that feminism isn’t about women participating in patriarchal structures of oppression as oppressors; it’s about abolishing patriarchal structures of oppression.

If I got a bonus thing, it would be getting them to realize that patriarchy also harms men, that toxic masculinity harms men (and can be perpetuated by women), and that only a relatively small percentage of men can be categorized as “oppressors.”

An oligarch is an oligarch, whether man or woman. And bullying a vulnerable man because he’s an easier target than an actual oppressor is not “smashing the patriarchy.”

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And yet their solution is to use a man for protection?

Nothing wrong with that, I just think it’s a little one-sided to say “women are afraid of men” while ignoring the part where “women use men for safety.”

But see, every human social interaction these days is viewed through the lense of “must have sexual undertones.”

That’s why it’s hard to go in public/make eye contact with strangers without someone glaring at you and accusing you of something nasty…

Wow, this comment chain went from heartwarming to depressing real fast. I’m sorry you lost your friend.

The loneliness epidemic is absolutely real, and this isolating society is killing us all by design and it breaks my heart.

That’s true, but internet pseudo-feminists seem intent on declaring that the loneliness epidemic isn’t real and is just made up by the manosphere to oppress women.

(This isn’t a statement against feminism, but the idea that anything that hurts men is feminist isn’t really feminism)

Yeah, I had to watch the nytårstale on youtube because it was region locked on DR.

I also wish I could stream Danish media, but the Scandinavian streaming services are also region locked

Thanks! I appreciate that and I’ll keep that in mind. I’m using Babbel, which has native speaker recordings, so I definitely understand the challenge of pronunciation but I think I’m slowly getting it.

It only goes up to A2 though, so if I ever make it to Denmark I’ll have to use Prøve i Dansk and maybe attend a language school.

I’ll DM you if I have a question I can’t find an answer to!

Ah, thank you. Honestly I’m already formulating an exit plan; if midterms aren’t administered fairly this year then all is lost.

Denmark is at the top of my list of places to try to live, but migrating permanently there seems like a challenge. I’m already studying Danish though, just in case.

Fair enough. I just meant cause I’m (unfortunately) american, but I’m not going to stop extolling democracy just because fascists are destroying it here

One doesn’t have to be a professional to play a sport. One shouldn’t have to be a professional to participate in a rational debate either.

Dribbling and dunking on an unwilling participant in the grocery store who’s just trying to do some shopping would be a douchebag move. But if you go to a basketball court and start engaging with the people dribbling, then they’re not being a douche when they dunk on you.

Internet forums are a public space where theoretically people can discuss whatever they want. If someone doesn’t want to participate in a discussion then they don’t have to, but they shouldn’t get upset when they see someone lay out a well-crafted treatise on the nature of toe beans. If they don’t want to debate, they don’t have to engage. That’s the freedom of the internet.

I think the problem are the trolls who don’t engage in good faith or rationally, and simply make disingenuous strawman arguments so they can insult people about scenarios that they’ve made up and projected onto the other person. That’s not what I mean when I say rational debate.

It’s almost impossible to have a good faith, rational debate on the internet. Logical validity and soundness go out the window the moment someone has to examine their biases and check whether their assumptions have been accurate.

Tankies are so exhausting to deal with. In my view, they’re as bad as maga. The two really seem to feed off each other.

Dude, you’re being a dick. America already has a bad enough name as it is, stop making it worse.

I still value democracy, while recognizing that the US is a shitshow right now. The americans who support democracy are not in favor of what’s going on right now.

Throwing out democracy because it’s being destroyed by a fascist in america is akin to throwing out the baby with the bath water.

Democracy is the baby. It’s fragile and helpless on it’s own, and requires attention and active participation from adults in order to be nurtured and grow. Fascism is the pile of dog shit the baby got into when the adults left the room. The baby just needs a bath.

If they don’t have anything to hide, then maybe they’ll consent to an unwarranted search. Who needs constitutional rights when you have nothing to hide? /s