I’ll be able to. But I most certainly won’t do it. No thanks.

Chinese ones, too.

They’re not really communists. Hint: Russian trolls are getting paid.

In my other (non-Lemmy) life, I’ve written extensively about the paradox of tolerance, and how recognizing it de-fangs the arguments of wanna-be totalitarians.

For people not in the know, Popper proposed that infinite, unrestricted “tolerance” is paradoxically self-destroying, because it necessarily means tolerating attempts to destroy tolerance.

The solution is simple and obvious in retrospect, but so many people have trouble finding it and worry about whether they’re hypocrites or not for refusing to tolerate Nazis and the like. The solution is this:

Recognize the fact that you never promised to tolerate Nazis.

No one ever promised to tolerate everything without caveats or restrictions. Instead, we promised to tolerate each other, to respect one another’s right to exist. In other words, tolerance is a peace treaty.

As soon as you realize that, it becomes obvious that you needn’t tolerate Nazis, because they have broken the treaty. You are not bound by it when it comes to them. In fact, given the nature of people like that, they were never really signatories to the treaty in the first place, because they start from a basis of intending to destroy it.

Oh, how they hate it when people realize this and refuse to put up with Nazi bullshit or apologize for that refusal. Well, sorry, Nazi turd burglars, we never promised to put up with your shit in the first place, so y’all can fuck right off.

Yep. In welcoming back the Nazis, Elon made it clear he intended to make it a Nazi forum. Oh, he said a few things about “free speech zones” or something, but when you peel back the veneer of idealism, you just find a bunch of Nazis.

They love “free speech zones,” because no one wants to share a forum with Nazis and leave when the Nazis take over.

I’m not even sure they’re really tankies anymore (or the meaning of the word is changing). Actual tankies still ostensibly support communism, but all too often, it’s blatantly apparent that they’re actually right-wing totalitarians cosplaying.

That’s the one! Thank you for finding it.

Thank goodness.

I’m reminded of a story I read a while back - not sure where - about how if you let a Nazi into your bar, you eventually end up running a Nazi bar. I think the same applies to online forums. You let Nazis overrun a forum, everyone else leaves, and eventually you might as well just be running Stormfront.

Great! Now all you gotta do is get speaker groups to consistently work!