https://lemmy.world/post/6313843
The liberal brainwashing is complete, they’re as rabid as neo-cons.
I out here using some words. Doesn’t really matter what they mean. I just like using them.
This is textbook virtue signalling. Competing with one another about who can most aggressively agree with the consensus position. There’s no effort to understand anything here, just farting and sniffing.
Seems to be the norm now, this is all I see outside of hexbear and a few other pockets.
It’s the inevitable result of reddit-style design, imo, particularly with regard to having downvotes. Downvotes discourage people from making controversial comments, because even if you’re correct and lots of people agree with you, your comments can still be buried or limited in visibility if enough people dislike them. The downvote button isn’t supposed to be the disagree button, but in real terms that’s what it is.
If comments that people agree with get more visibility, and things people disagree with get less visibility, then the natural result is going to be that people learn to make comments that everyone agrees with. A recipe for banality.
Hexbear has no downvotes so it functions more like twitter. You can’t just hit the dislike button and move on, so if you want to express dislike or disagreement, you have to comment and amplify, which reddit people hate. They think it’s brigading or trolling because, despite their ostensible love of debate, they don’t actually want to discuss anything.
Ukraine can’t just win a war because they want it bad enough. There is no triumph of the will
Sometimes I bang my GI Joe and my Skeletor figurines together and pretend it’s the Russo-Ukrainian War. I’ll lay there for hours on my mom’s floor saying “pew pew pew” while the Ukrainian GI Joe drops drone grenades on the RuZZian Skeletor. I’ll dismember him bit by bit as I laugh in my head. Many times I’ve written the Ukrainian Army and suggested new tactics based on my recreations of the drone videos. Once I said they should drop acid bombs and they replied “thank”.
