• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Holy hypocrisy, Batman! You can’t just say that none of our opinions matter after spending several paragraphs over several comments sharing your own objectively wrong take. Not without showing everyone what a condescending idiot you are, at least 🤷

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      1 year ago

      They got backed into a logical corner, that they couldn’t figure out how to defend, so they went into it doesn’t matter anyway rather than agree with me.

      Honestly, I take it as a compliment. It means they are thinking logically, they just don’t have the personal fortitude to admit it publicly but that will come with time.

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        1 year ago

        you know, what I find really interesting is that’s there’s basically no discussion on the news subs until someone espouses a comment that’s basically against the policy that everyone appears to blindly abide by - but then an absolute mass of people chime in about how the offending comment is wrong, or how they’re a traitor for not being willing to toe the party line, or are just flat out insulting.

        it’s really kind of hilarious - and it indicates that lemmy really isnt the next big thing, not like reddit was or digg before it. the decentralized nature just works against it. the expected response is that “you just need to find the right community” - but it really seems that a lot of people on the news subs just want to argue. the politics subs are even worse - they’re basically echo chambers for the small minded, and they’re proud of it.

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          1 year ago

          find the right community -> start the right community

          Otherwise, I agree. Too much group think, not enough open and thoughtful debate.

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            1 year ago

            no real debate at all, just… arguing, then insults fly when they discover arguing isnt working. it’s a sad state of affairs.

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              to be fair you are VERY difficult to hold a conversation with. You don’t acknowledge points, you move goal posts, and you switch topics often. Many of your posts appear to be trying to elicit a emotional response from people.

              But I think you know this, you even named yourself ‘Toxic’, so this shouldn’t be a surprise.

              Many people get frustrated in those circumstances and lash out.

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                1 year ago

                it’s unfortunate, but many just devolve to their base instincts. yes, yes, I see your point - and I’ll admit that you’ve got a point. I was/am/have been attempting to engage a diverse community in discussion. too often it seems that “discussion” in these threads is “X is bad” and then a bunch of folks chiming in “I hate X”, “X stole my lunch money”, “X slept with my wife and she left me because of Y reason”, etc, etc. there’s no actual discussion in the sense that we’re exchanging ideas or broadening each other’s worldviews. it’s just supporting criticisms. maybe that’s what people learn these days in colleges?

                other than our linguistical expertise, our prose, it could easily be a transcript of insults between a few younger children on a playground somewhere. and I find that depressing. so I attempt to engage - but more often than naught it’s like screaming into the dark & praying for a response - any response, even just someone else screaming back.

                anyway, I digress.