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Is it wrong to greatly prefer expressing all political views in a borderline echo chamber such as Lemmygrad rather than ever try to engage with liberals on other platforms again?
  • No, I think the desire is understandable. Just look at how unproductive some of the comments here are to even engage with your question meaningfully. People willfully misconstrue and attack the person instead of the argument.

    I don't think the problem goes away in an echo chamber, though they may be smaller. The goal posts people erect to show that they belong in the group are also aggravating. Trying to be the best buy bring most extreme, and so on. Groups drift over time.

    All that said, you are not going to change anyone in an online discussion, that's functionally impossible. Discuss to learn.

  • Over 20,000 Wagner troops killed, 40,000 wounded in Ukraine: Prigozhin-linked channel
  • Absolutely! Do you not? There were definitely tragic stories there, of men who died before their time who did not sympathize with nazi Germany, and did not want to go to war if they hadn't been drafted. They would have rather lived their peaceful lives with their girlfriends. I'm not saying you nessecarily should pity them, just that you not doing so reflects a political view of the people involved. You reduce humans to us, the worthy humans, and them, the sub-humans. everyone on my side are principally victims, everyone on the other side are principally perpetrators. We are worthy of connecting, they are not.

    It's an easy view to fall into, and you are not alone in thinking that way. It is only getting more common as the world gets increasingly wound up in war and war mentality.

    I can warmly recommend the YouTube documentary 'the great war' made between 2014 and 2019 about war and it's toll on humanity.

  • Over 20,000 Wagner troops killed, 40,000 wounded in Ukraine: Prigozhin-linked channel
  • Young men sent to war to die in a political scheme concocted by crooks are also 'victims of war'. War is not being committed on them? They may not have had a say - forced by threat off violence or the destitution of their loved ones. Of the original 500 convicts enlisted, only two were still alive after a few months, an abysmal survival rate of under 1%!

    It is easier for us to see them all as the evil enemy, but that is too simple. If you cannot find pity for the cannon fodder of the war, then you are interpreting the events through an unapologetically political lens rather than a humanitarian one.

  • Over 20,000 Wagner troops killed, 40,000 wounded in Ukraine: Prigozhin-linked channel
  • Many of them were convicts promised freedom in return for signing up, and a modest life insurance for their families if they died. If nothing else, then some of these men were as much victims of the war as the Ukrainians.

  • So Protonmail / ProtonVPN is not a good option?
  • Hah, well, two years later here you still are. Amazing!

    Love to hear it! I'm also on proton, if only for mail. I'm looking forward to a storage service with support for sync, so far I'm not so happy with the product I'm using.