Comment on Israeli settlers attack West Bank Christian village

jeena@piefed.jeena.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Feyd@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  If we’re holding grudges along religious and ethnic lines literally forever there will never be peace until one group has destroyed all the others. I hope that’s not the fate of humanity.

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• jeena@piefed.jeena.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I see, it's impossible to write anything, even the most rediciolous bullshit without a extremely obvious '/s' on Lemmy.
  But when I write the '/s' it completely takes out any comedy out of the statement. It's a course.

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  • adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The problem is that your joke is exactly what a proportion of the population would write in all seriousness. And when called on it, they’d respond with “it’s just a joke! Don’t be so uptight!”

    But if NOT called on it (because everyone thinks it’s just a joke), they’ll run with it in all seriousness.

    So better just to downvote, signalling to people that the PoV isn’t considered OK.

    If the /s makes it no longer funny, then it’s probably a good idea to think about whose expense you’re finding it funny at.

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