Comment on Why the Internet and society itself is so divided nowadays ?

• TimeSquirrel@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don't use "are you fucking kidding me" in normal everyday real life conversation with strangers when they have done nothing to deserve that kind of attitude. Maybe you and your circle do. But not everyone does.

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  • Deceptichum@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Mate, it’s the most mundane comment ever. Why you’re getting at all worked up over it is beyond me but okay; everyone’s gotta have something in their life even if it’s being a miserable cunt on the Internet.

    Cool? I’ve never had death threats in the past or now, so rather than taking that as an indication of the state of internet users I’d rather be looking inward, no?

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    • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      even if it’s being a miserable cunt

      There you go again. You literally can't stop.

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      • AnalogyAddict@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Trying to feel superior while using a base and repetitive vocabulary, to boot.

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      • Deceptichum@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh no I called you miserable, how horrific.

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    • FishFace@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Swearwords are categorised differently than ordinary words for a reason: it’s a tool that is useful to express things more forcefully than is otherwise possible. “More forceful” takes it beyond the realm of “mundane” never mind “most mundane ever” and, yes, makes it flaming, as is calling someone a “miserable cunt.”

      No-one here is actually getting worked up (maybe except you? I don’t call people “miserable cunts” unless I’m at least a bit annoyed) You’re imagining that people talking to you calmly are worked up, because you can’t imagine someone disagreeing with you on this calmly. That failure of imagination is far from the worst thing in the world, but it’s causing you to be unpleasant and, I think, to be blind to a change that has taken place over the last 20 years.

      I’ve never had death threats in the past or now, so rather than taking that as an indication of the state of internet users I’d rather be looking inward, no?

      One thing I know about death threats is that only a handful of people actually deserve them, but vast numbers of people receive them. Death threats therefore indicate more about the people who send them than the people who receive them. That in turn means if they have become more prevalent, something in [internet] society has changed. Telling someone to “look inward” over death threats is messed up.

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      • V0lD@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Lemmy really needs a super-upvote system

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