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Irony posted...

Yes he is

IMO a big reason the world is a worse place is because of bad internet discourse, and IMO a big reason for bad internet discourse is people like you.

People like you, who invent false narratives and strawmen and then when confronted with evidence that explicitly proves you wrong, you double down.

"joe must be a transphobe, he just talked respectfully about a trans person's video and said it was a thoughtful and engaging perspective but he acknowledged that he didn't agree with all of the video's claims! AND his pronoun usage was less overt than I think it must be! Joe is clearly a hateful person who wants to dehumanize! He is incapable of being anything than a transphobe because he is so hateful that he refuses to call Contrapoints a she."

Me: *Calls her a she.*

Others: "Joe isn't like that, you are wrong."

You: "YES HE IS, NO I'M NOT!"

So yeah, IMO people like you are why internet discourse is worse. You are so invested in your strawman that you never consider the possibility that the reductive and antagonistic way you frame people and the narrative is inaccurate, EVEN WHEN PROVEN WRONG.

This is just like the scenario for which I tagged you with your current tag "lies about my vaccination status". You INSISTED I was anti-vaxx, over and over, by me even bringing up the discussion of a risk benefit analysis on the COVID mRNA shots (particularly for younger demographics) you said JOE IS ANTI-VAXX. Furthermore, you said that I had never gotten any covid vaccine.

And then you literally did not change your claim at all when I made that topic showing my signed covid vaccine card. You saw it, I posted it the picture to you. And yet, you kept repeating something even though you had seen proof that you were wrong, because in people like your's mind, it would seem that nothing, NOTHING is sufficient to challenge your preconceived notions. Apparently, your reductive and antagonistic world view is more important to you than any proof that shows you are flat wrong.

And while ContraPoints is not my favorite youtuber, I do have so much more respect for people like her than people like you. Because she tries to engage ideas that are outside her beliefs. Unlike people like you who literally can't acknowledge FACTS staring you in the goddamn face that go against your narrative.

I've become more mentally healthy lately, and part of that is me trying to not give time to those who don't deserve my time or respect. I'm quicker to block bad faith trolls on the internet because honestly, fool me once shame on you, show me 10 billion times that you literally have no interest in engaging in any discussion outside of one that conforms to your blatantly false understanding of reality, shame of me for putting up with it.

The one major fault I still have in this regard is that part of me is really bothered with the idea that there are people as antagonistic and ignorant as you who will go unchallenged because everybody with sense just stops talking to them.

So I guess that's what this post is, one less hail mary attempt to give you a chance to admit that MAYBE on SOME of your reductive, divisive, sweeping generalizations about me for which you've literally seen proof that you are wrong, MAYBE you could acknowledge you MIGHT have not been perfectly accurate.

It's literally the bare minimum I'd expect a good faith and cognitively functioning human to be able to do, but I also simultaneously don't think you are capable of it.

If you respond with your regular bullshit, I'm going to just wise up and block you like I should have forever ago. You are likely going to feign that being blocked by me doesn't bother you, but if that were true you wouldn't spend so much time and energy acting like a dense douche in so many of my topics.

So yeah, if acknowledge the possibility that you MIGHT have been at least a TINY bit wrong, we can reset, I will forgive you for your mischaracterization of me, and I will give you tons of credit for having the capacity to be reasonable. But if you just double down again, it will just be pathetic and proof to me I should have blocked you ages ago.