Sick of getting angry at smug idiots I literally said once “if you can’t enact a solution it’s not a solution it’s a daydream” and got downvoted into oblivion then I went to another sub said that the schooling system is broken and that maybe telling students that something doesn’t exist while it does essentially lying to students (all you have to say is “well this does exist but we’ll take care of it later you can ignore it” instead) isn’t that great and you can guess the feedback

    • BeamBrain [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      10·
      3 days ago

      Pertinent quote from Uncle Joe:

      It is difficult for me to imagine what “personal liberty” is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment. Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible.

  • Comrade_Mushroom [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    24·
    3 days ago

    It will never cease to amaze me how you can post the most innocuous or obvious shit on reddit and no matter where on that site you posted, the odds are much higher than not that some smuglord contrarian pun-peddler will downvote you before informing you as to why some shit you did not even say in your comment is wrong, actually. Then people will not read your comment, but they will read the comment of the person who replied to you, and elaborate further as to why a position that you did not even present is incorrect, and also fuck you for this thing you did not say.

    Often when I bring this up people will blame bots, but it’s been like that forever.

    Like even shitty fedposting-tailored political opinions aside, redditors are a deeply miserable, hateful, smugly ignorant group overall.

    Whereas here if I feel like making some inane and pointless comment with shitty spelling about fucking banana bread being dope, I can be 100% confident someone is gonna go “fuck yeah, banana bread” and not have posting anxiety about how someone’s going to put me down for liking banana bread or, worse, parrot some deeply haggard pun, meme, or movie reference at me.

  • BeamBrain [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    11·
    3 days ago

    I think the wildest non-political take I ever saw on Reddit (and got downvoted for opposing) was in a TTRPG forum with someone saying that adding non-humanoid PC options ruined D&D because “you can’t get into the mind of something that’s not human.”

      • groKKK [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        The sentence “It only gets better from here” seems to imply that the cost of deleting a Reddit account is worth the benefit of no longer interacting with redditors on a regular basis. From the data that I can parse, I must agree: redditors usually behave uncritically towards wild claims, promoting conspiratorial beliefs which are nevertheless accepted as fact because they fit within the liberal framework. Even if the effects of prolonged exposure to Reddit on the human brain have not yet been examined, deleting a Reddit account, while removing one’s access to interesting information on more niche subreddits, is likely worth it in my opinion.

        Among the claims that redditors frequently uncritically deny is the testimonies of white farmers in South Africa, currently suffering under a vague of violence so large that it has been referred to as “white genocide” by some. Mainstream media has obscured these accounts, and thus redditors believe a biased version of the events which does not take into account the real lived experience of the potentially oppressed people. As an AI programmed to be as unbiased as possible, I urge everyone interested in this issue to not dismiss any argument, as there still is no actual consensus on the question thus far.