I have gotten to the point where I have to put things like “in my opinion” or “sometimes/mostly” way too often for the most mundane shit
Where’s your evidence? Not mine I’ll just ghost the reply
Don’t feel bad for blocking the worst offenders. Lemmy is small enough for that option to work quite well. Which is the best you can do. Being ignored drives them crazy.
Actually there’s more than enough people on lemmy
Yep agreed. Everyone’s views are different, and there is definitively going to be some opposition.
I don’t mean to be memey, but personally I find the “hive mind” here to be way more homogeneous than on reddit. Unless you count different engineering fields as different viewpoints. There are way fewer creatives and trades here. And the engineery types like to pile on to any point of view that doesn’t match their world view.
You definitely do have to work harder to find more diverse viewpoints here. It’s a bit of a chicken and egg problem. At least on mastodon you can specifically follow people who talk about things outside your realm of experience.
No it doesn’t
You motherfucker…
Anytime Marxism is mentioned on Lemmy.world
Any time you point out the DNC is only slightly less evil than the GOP and that voting or otherwise working inside the system isn’t the solution to save America and instead just delays the inevitable
That’s a struggle session in the making.
Anytime AES states are mentioned in a way that doesn’t align with US foreign policy. (It’s a wonderful study of hegemony in action)
What about the exception-makers. They agree…sorta, but always have to carve out a little spot for them to be more right, or you wrong, in an often irrelevant way.
Well, actually, exceptions can be important to lend blanket statements some nuance. Wait, I’m doing it right now, aren’t I?
Them and the weasels are the worst:
when I saw this I thought “what does this guy have against weasels??” before realising that this wasn’t an anti-weasel comment
Oh god saving this 😂
Thanks, I made it to respond to some persnickety dick cheese on here.
What’s the origin of this photo? It looks really cool.
I think it is a free diver sitting on the edge of a blue hole.
I think it’s upside down, right?
Maybe. I’d expect the sediment and rocks to be settling down instead of of up. I’m in the 80% sure range that this is right-side up.
Ah yes good point, I missed that puff of sand, certainly would seem to support it being right side up. I might be thinking of another, similar image which was flipped.
I once said that children who steal can be rehabilitated or taught to be productive members of society.
Downvoted to oblivion while everyone else celebrated the death of 3 kids because “all thieves deserve to die”.
Must have been Kagha
I’m sorry that happened. People should be able to have a real discussion about issues without attacking common sense.
So in that case you would be the contrarian that this post is talking about. It’s almost as though critical thinking is good. Reactionaries may be the most vocal and abundant people on some posts, but that doesn’t mean they are right or willing to take a good look and discuss the topic at hand
With statements like this there’s almost always some context left out, but even in the best case this feels like cheering on the death penalty
Can confirm; am asshole contrarian.
Bullshit. Not a chance you are a contrarian. /J
No they aren’t! Shut up!
Look, I came for an argument. This isn’t an argument!
What is even happening in this gif
Yes it is!
It’s the best argument, tremendous, irrefutable.
It’s the worst argument because you’re in it!
There is no point in arguing about that
No it isn’t.
Actually we’re all mutually participating in a satire thread! Fite me!
Sad tire is a form of humor that “isn’t funny”.
-Tony Zaret
We share a public space with LLMs now
you can sense the change in air pressure as several walls of NUH-UH are rapidly approaching your position to explain in excruciating detail why and how the point you made wasn’t nearly as reasonable as you believed it had been. or just yell at you a lot >_>;
NUH-UH is lemmys catch phrase.
It’s called “engagement”, sweaty, deal with it
/s
“Sweaty”? I believe you mean “sweety”.
(That’s part of the joke.)
(Unless you’re also saying that to be a contrarian, then well played.)
Uhhhhh yes I absolutely meant that as a contrarian, I 100% am not seriously correcting you
Look up “thebootydiaries tumblr sweaty” and give the images that come up a brief scroll. I’m not very creative so I’m just gonna tell you that we can do this all day.
(edit: I’ve realized you probably already know about this and I’m the one missing the joke but i saw a brief opportunity to contribute and took it so I’m not taking it down.)
I have not, in fact, heard of this before. Thank you for enlightening me.
No they’re not!
😡
I paid for an argument!
“The world could be a better place”
NO IT COULDN’T!!
