Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him”…
Honestly you’re not wrong. But you can’t really limit that to Lemmy. This is the truth for literally every online forum that exists. These debate bros just took it offline and onto the streets, filmed it and edited it to make them look as good as possible and then fed it back into the online spectacle machine. Using virality as a means of persuasion instead of a reasoned argument.
Lemmy in a nutshell. A clever dunk will always “win” you a debate even though nobody changed their mind.
Honestly you’re not wrong. But you can’t really limit that to Lemmy. This is the truth for literally every online forum that exists. These debate bros just took it offline and onto the streets, filmed it and edited it to make them look as good as possible and then fed it back into the online spectacle machine. Using virality as a means of persuasion instead of a reasoned argument.
It’s not a dunk, it’s a SLAM