https://lemmy.world/post/6313843
The liberal brainwashing is complete, they’re as rabid as neo-cons.
ah yes, but, you see, what you don’t see here is that we’re actually the Adults In The Room and we’re doing Adulting, a higher-order concept that your ignoramus brain could never understand, tankie
More Reddit than Reddit themselves.
Also u/ilovethebomb is a notorious Ukraine shill, I’ve seen them every time this war comes up. They’re not the one-off mindless innocent lib, they purposely go on Lemmygrad to be angry and get owned.
More Reddit than Reddit themselves.
You can remove the Redditor from Reddit, but you can’t remove Reddit from the Redditor.
Your average Chinese person could probably give less of a shit about the USA that foaming feral burgers do about China who live in their brain 24/7 and are responsible for literally everything bad in the world.
Using the words “authoritarian regime” sets off either state department bot alarm bells or fallen-for-propaganda alarm bells.
Even if a country is that, in my head that’s a term that journalists use for “the bad countries” and I could never say it sincerely.
Every country has an authoritarian regime, it came free with your nation state.
Anytime the government does anything it needs authority. Any society aside from the perfect anarchist utopia is “authoritarian”.
Throwing a tantrum over “authoritarianism” in the abstract is completely meaningless. It’s exactly the same as crying that the government did “something”. Yeah of course the government is authoritarian, that’s how governments work. Clearly liberals have no issues with some form of government existing, so there’s literally zero substance at all to work with here. It’s a nebulous word that’s devolved to mean nothing. It’s like a screwdriver: you can use it to assemble furniture or you can stab someone to death with it. I don’t see anyone publishing articles about “screwdriverism”.
The only time critiques of “authoritarianism” are meaningful is when they come from anarchists. Anything else is disingenuous.
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.
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.
This is the primary reason why I left ages ago. Fundamentally flawed design
