• BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
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    7 hours ago

    And this is why I think Cowbee is wasting his time trying to engage in good faith with shitlibs; you’ll always just worm your way out and find some excuse, because you’re not actually engaging in good faith, you’ve already decided what you believe, and because you’re supremely arrogant westerners, nothing will ever be as good as your gut feeling for you.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mlOP
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      6 hours ago

      To be clear, I have no illusions about mhague changing their mind, I engage for others who see the clear bad faith and contradictory logic to maybe have their minds changed.

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        6 hours ago

        Gotta say I really appreciate that you do this. I try to varying degrees when I have the time since like you said it’s usually so lurkers can have their minds changed but it can be time consuming.

        It’s really nice when others are jumping in to help and I see you posting great takes a ton.

        • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mlOP
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          6 hours ago

          Thanks! It’s more of an evolution of myself over time, back in my Reddit days years ago I used to be such a debatebro. Now I try to be more chill and focus on education and unity, though when the obviously bad-faith users swarm in I try to call them out on that moreso than trying to focus on education. Sometimes I get great questions that help me reconsider things, sometimes people thank me over DMs or in comments, and either way it’s a great feeling.

          Thanks for the support!

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            9 minutes ago

            Hi I’m a lurker and I appreciated the responses.

            Never really looked too deep on Cuba beyond what is obviously forced into my face by American education/media/“news” etc…

            So interesting to see a dissenting opinion, I support socialism/communism tho I wish there were better examples of communism working to point to, as if the west didn’t actively work against it all the time lol.

            But it is fair to say I think that it is a bit concerning how often it has devolved into essentially dictatorships of one kind or another, but basically since Reagan it’s not like we’ve actually had a honest legislature/election process.