AWistfulNihilist

@AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just trying to fit in the clown show known as the human race⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Naw, they shitty, horrible kids with bad opinions, but if I felt as strongly as you, and had a much free time, (my god i wish i had your time), I’d spend the same time repping this place and less time trying to gentrify it into another political war zone. But by all means dehumanize these stupid kids until you only see an enemy to safer defeat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just trying to fit in the clown show known as the human race⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for the context so you can see how chill and goofy you are in your “fight against fascism” aka the kids who built and populated this platform initially.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just trying to fit in the clown show known as the human race⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Really, is that the vibe you think you bring to the table? I would have said a steady stream of argument bait. You usually don’t see chill goofy people maintaining entire threads of personal callouts. That’s just an imo tho!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was and am in a situation where WFM became voluntary because we outgrew the space while everyone was at home.

  We have no limit of volunteers to work in the office, we have multiple people who never left the office, they continued to commute and went in every day.

  So my anecdotal experience is the exact opposite of yours, which is why we don’t put a ton of stock in them and look at aggregates in studies. Making sense?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think anyone who mentions that honor killings are a thing is saying that. Honor killings have been recognized by amnesty international as being a distinct threat to women worldwide that is present in America as well specific to Muslim majority countries in the Middle East and Asia.

  I think any child has the potential of being killed by their angry parents, it’s happened very frequently from people of all backgrounds, but it’s ok to admit that a Muslim girl who doesn’t want to introduce you to her parents could be motivated by the fear of death or abuse in a very specific way. And i think it’s ok to tell this kid that this is a possible additional pressure based on her culture.

  But it’s fair to say this has happened like a half dozen times in the US in two decades. That might feel like a lot, but considering the sheer number of Muslims who live in this country, that might as not happen at all.

  I can keep both of these ideas in my head at the same time and not have a weird, knee-jerk meltdown in the comments!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This seems so dumb, like people have simply put names to the typical tropes of online conversation, it’s a very typical meta discussion that you don’t seem to want to engage in, so why waste the time?

  Your solution doesn’t make sense, just take things less seriously! Are you the fucking Joker, this is serious shit. It only works if there are more likeminded people who share your “logical” opinion. If your solution is to always just overshout, you are agreeing to the will of the majority, which we call the tyranny of the majority in the United States. What happens when the majority you picture yourself as flips to the minority in the argument.

  Congrats, you’ve just lost everything! Welcome to 2025. A zero sum game where if someone asks a genuine question with good discussion, people are going to come in to try to flip the table.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is an excellent example of moving the goalposts, thank you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Who’s gatekeeper and purity testing this method of targeted censorship you’ve dreamed up?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's impossible to defend any amount of alcohol consumption without sounding like an alcoholic.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but this interpretation is almost entirely subjective to you. Most people don’t think in shades of alcoholic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's impossible to defend any amount of alcohol consumption without sounding like an alcoholic.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Because my consumption isn’t problematic.”

  Like the person who is only drinking a half dozen times a year doesn’t have a relationship with alcohol at all. They don’t even think about it in a regular day. The only person who would hear a red flag in those responses is someone who does have a relationship with alcohol, and it’s probably not a good one.