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    AITAH My brother is a Musk apologist and I no longer want to come to his wedding

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  • You've applied the label of fascist and Nazi yourself, nowhere in OPs post does he define his brother as a fascist or Nazi. Left Vs Right political differences doesn't mean you automatically get to apply labels like commie or Nazi, a lot of people on Lemmy need to grow up.

    OP bought up the Musk debate with his brother knowing that his brother is a right winger, then OP got upset when his brother acted just as you'd expect. He poked a dog with a stick and then got upset when it barked.

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    AITAH My brother is a Musk apologist and I no longer want to come to his wedding

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  • Honestly, and I already know I'm massively against the consensus here, but you should be the bigger man.

    Tell your brother that you disagree with him but that he's family, you'll always love him and that you're honoured to be a guest at his wedding.

    If you want to draw a line and say "let's not talk about politics though" or something like that, then absolutely do.

    Don't have all your family and his friends talk about how you're refusing to attend because you had a fall out over politics, you're not going to appear principled, you're going to appear petty. You've made your point to your brother, now move on.

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  • You do you, I'm not here to tell anyone what their Lemmy experience should be, I'm just saying I personally believe that it's unhealthy to surround yourself only with people that agree with you, we all have to go back to the real world at some point.

    There was a post yesterday where a guy was not going to his brother's wedding because they'd had a fall out over the whole Musk thing. I think that's terrible.

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  • I agree that there is a huge difference between blocking hate (who the site should be blocking anyway due to breaching the community guidelines) and blocking someone you simply disagree with or are offended by.

    When it comes to being offended it's different, we can all agree that hate shouldn't be tolerated, but offence is in the eye of the beholder.

    I could block any users that I find to be offensive and live in a lovely online community where everyone agrees with me but I personally don't want a community that doesn't reflect the real world and I find it mentally unhealthy to pretend that offensive people and/or people with different points of view don't exist.

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  • I think there's a difference between blocking people that use hate speech and blocking those who you simply disagree with but I don't know why I keep bothering to try explaining myself.

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  • If nothing else, it's practice for the next time you hear it, you can workout your arguments against it.

    I also find it quite fascinating to try understanding other people, I already understand the reasoning behind my beliefs and already know what I know. Talking to someone different from me is much more interesting than talking to someone very similar to me.

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  • I think that's a broad brush to paint with and that the majority of people identifying with right wing politics are in reality rather moderate.

    You could argue that the moderate right enable the extreme right but that's a different debate.

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  • The only speech I don't defend is hate speech. Everything else must be fair game, no matter how much I personally don't like it or how much I disagree.

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  • I consider my self a lefty, but I think it's important to consider all points of view, especially when I disagree with them.

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  • I don't like Trump or Musk, I just keep my head when all else about are losing theirs.

    Enjoy your echo chamber, must be nice when there's no-one that has a different opinion or disagrees with you.

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  • I don't know where you got that opinion from. An echo chamber is an echo chamber and I think it's a shame regardless of which flavour it is.

    I'm here for open debate and freedom of expression, knowing that will mean having to see and read things I don't like every now and again.

    If other people want to block other users up to the point there's no one else that has a different opinion to them, then they absolutely can do that but I thinks it's just being an ostrich that sticks it's head in the sand.

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  • Sometimes I can't understand why I'm so joyless and cynical, then I read some of the comments on Lemmy and feel a lot better about myself!

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  • If we keep going, we can make this an echo chamber yet!

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    The fact that this is a real image is infuriating

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  • I'm far too politically fatigued and long in the tooth to not see the funny side.

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    The fact that this is a real image is infuriating

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    The fact that this is a real image is infuriating

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  • Let's check back in 2029 and see how many people got genocided and how many people were being hysteric.

  • Confirmed.

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  • I agree with most of that, I still don't think that makes it ok to paint them all as Nazis.

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    The fact that this is a real image is infuriating

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  • To play devil's advocate, he specifically means those who were born to foreign people staying in the US illegally.