• alexc@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    They don’t understand irony. Or civility. Or empathy.

    But we can definitely all agree they are weird.

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      It’s not that they don’t understand; that’s too excusing/gives them too much credit. It’s that they deliberately do not care, and see “discourse” solely as a fight to be won by any means necessary, including blatant bad faith.

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        2 months ago

        100% agree with this. Just started reading Black Pill by Elle Reeve and it says much the same