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There are no socialist billionaires bank rolling YouTubers

And it was only the interviewer who said that, and since there's no algorithm for following, you create your own bubble. But if one insists on breaking Wheaton's Law (like just about everyone who says "liberal bubble" will, yeah nuclear block lands on the trolls.

Anywhere with fact-checking, meaningful impartiality rules and/or peer review

I distinctly remember discussions of why truth social was boring, and the reason was that there's no liberals on it to troll. They don't actually enjoy each other's company.

So you mean to tell me the algorithm got a political donor now.

we had already become pretty good at it on twitter, which is why elon bought the thing in the first place - there was no other angle of attack left.

So you mean to tell me they need protection from questions. That's the whole tell.

I refuse to “both sides“ Science. I’m pro science I’m sick and tired of arguing with these morons abt only two genders. This is the only thing they talk about Science.  vaccines work. Climate change and global warming is real. Facts.

Anyone who believes in this kind of shit is the frog in the boiling pot of water, and has had their brain cooked by Twitter for far too long.

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Hard disagree. If we aren't honest about our own bubbles, blindspots and mistakes we lose the capacity for self-examination, becoming reactionary. Block buttons, muting and hiding posts are tools of the weak. Being soft has let authoritarianism in. Continuing to cover our eyes and ears is fatal.

This is just stuff that people tend to think

That isn't even unique to the internet, let alone bluesky. People everywhere think that, hell conservatives specifically think that all the time. Why do you think they have so many thought terminating cliches about it?

We need to normalize The Bible Bubble

No fr cuz have you met a conservative person irl. They don't like talking about politics

@toni.bsky.team must have made good $$$ off the left and now is on his knees begging for the pedophile president to give him mote tax breaks #NoCaesars

I come here largely for recreational purposes. Why should I want to spend my leisure time in the company of arseholes? I did enough of that when I worked for a living, and career advancement relied on one's desire to drink beer with cunts.

But saying so will make Ross Douthat sad.

But think of the upside: fewer Texans.

Two churches and everybody kin to each other. That's the bubble, ain't it.

My great great grandpa was actually named Casper. I don't need to brag about it.

And that will be the day I leave this platform.

They need affirmative action, because their policies are inferior.

haha we're all that, anyway :) but yes, the brains that were taught to glorify unnecessary violence and haven't learned what it is to have an increasingly loving partnership with their own mind

long before twitter was doing this openly and explicitly, facebook had a bush admin staffer doing the same damn thing

It's all assholes using "Theory" to complain about everybody else rightly calling out their asshole behavior.

They are also just boring. They get shoved in our faces from all other social and mainstream media so we are all very familiar with conservative views on immigration. It’s nice to hear other views.

Honestly one of the most gratifying things about this site is seeing the antibody-like response when somebody posts some whack shit, and they get <4 likes and 120 replies telling them to pound sand. It makes me feel like I'm among same individuals.

Liberal bubble vs. Conservative rubble?

Conservatives also tend to see spaces like Bsky as untapped wilderness for their views because they see the moderation standards as oppressive and so they put on the nice face to get in with whoever controls the levers.

If you pour enough money in to it you can glue the racists to the business tyrants but in the end it’s going to reduce to the least common denominator and you get white monarchism

Yes!

We really need political leaders with the courage to say this. "Numerous athletes were harmed and even killed by being vaccinated" is not true, not arguable, and not acceptable in our discourse any more.

Wow, so God invented underwear just to leave the ten commandments in skidmarks? That's intense. You must be thousands of years old!

"I've been listening for 30 minutes and haven't yet heard anyone say that poor people should die, this is a liberal bubble"

Ordinary people don't want to be swamped with right-wing hate. Just let us scroll pictures of cats and sunsets!

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"Liberal bubble" = big mad there's still one place where the right wing isn't steering the boat

Exactly. There’s nothing stopping right-wingers from using this site as much as they want. And there’s nothing stopping us from blocking & ignoring them en masse - which is the part they find intolerable.

Thing about bubbles? There's air inside them.

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Amen.

I don't need to argue William Buckley again. No devil's advocates needed for lively convo. We know where the floor is. A decent society has accepted facts.

"Liberal Bubble." IE. "How dare you block people who post stupid fascist/homophobic/racist shit. Social media isn't supposed to be fun, sir! If someone posts something that makes you angry, so be it! Free Speech!"

“Liberal bubble” in the way Bikini Bottom was a bubble outside of Sandy Cheeks’ biodome!

Eh, i installed "who blocked me" extention and every reply gets me blocked by some skeezy fetish furry guy.

Conservatives aren't interested in free speech, what they actually mean is that they need to be free to force their speech upon you.

I hear ya, we’re currently in a huge “no one is talking about slowclap” bubble. I suspect persecution.

True, all the oligarchs are pushing far-right propaganda constantly now I was just in YT and they recommended me the fake journalist guy, even though I've blocked him (blocking does not work if he collabs)

I wouldn't bother, actually. I don't think it's a particularly interesting thing to try to prove. And this is bad faith special pleading anyway if you're only going to do it for this site and not others.

Unless we’re talking about math or hard science, everything has a “slant.”

idk lately i've been feeling peckish for an argument or two.

"Reality has a well-known liberal bias" The RW AND corporate media can't stand that.

Nah yall suck ass too.

No conservative ever deserves the benefit of the doubt that they are operating in good faith. Their worldview demands they don’t.

Debaaaate meeeeeeeeeeee......

Evergreen

Agreed!

Liberal bubble is a containment bubble as in uninfected by the zombie virus

Always and forever

"perspectives" is a generous catch-all here for all the forms of sophistry they engage in. they know right from wrong and they do not argue in good faith.

no one cares that the chamber of commerce or Brigham Young University are conservative bubbles

Yup. Just like “religious freedom” now means Christians being able to force their religion onto everyone else.

...and where facts roam free.

I would welcome hearing right wing perspectives that are not performatively inhumane, have some basis in functional reality, and point to an improvement of people's lives. Conservatism is nothing more than people who want to be wealthy protecting people who actually are. I'm just not impressed.

If the nuclear block ever goes away I'll be right behind it.

I've yet to hear "we need more queer, immigrant and sex worker perspectives" anywhere ever.

And basically no one in corporate media talks (due to complicity in the problem) about the fact that there are massive swaths of the country — whole Designated Market Areas (DMAs) — where there are ZERO Liberal content outlets in either radio, TV, or newspapers. THAT is a bubble🫧 A rightwing one.