First and foremost, let me say that I appreciate you actually engaging in a real discussion on Lemmy!
Why did I make this community? Well, mostly in response to the rest of Lemmy and the way many otherwise interesting discussion threads fall apart into downvoting and groupthink.
I don’t like people making baseless accusations and defend people on all sides when people are wrong about their opposition. I hate it when people think they know what others think and project incorrect (and often evil) bullshit on each other. It’s important to maintain solid reasoning and conclusions, not just one or the other.
I hate people being wilfully wrong because their group fetishizes a certain angle of the truth instead of the boring reality of the situation.
Ideas are important and I don’t feel we can get out of the current shitty slump we’re in with political discourse unless we are able to clearly articulate ourselves and discuss the world we’re in.
So let’s talk like people. What do you want to talk about?
Thanks! I’m really trying to do something different here.
I genuinely don’t like reading comments in most social media because of what it’s become. I hope to fix at least a small corner of it.
Is there a topic you’d like me to broach? Two I was considering tomorrow were gender and AI.
I’d like to see a discussion around “capitalism” that doesn’t devolve into bumper sticker logic and people either use the terms they mean (capitalism often conflated with consumerism or corporatism) or at least provide their particular definition (which would certainly be necessary if the topic of UBI were to arise)
Of course that topic alone is so broad in a vacuum something like the housing crisis or entrepreneurship would be better individual discussions under that umbrella
It’s on the list! I hope to see your take when I finally get it all down.