this post was submitted on 19 Sep 2023
1223 points (88.3% liked)
Comic Strips
12638 readers
4489 users here now
Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.
The rules are simple:
- The post can be a single image, an image gallery, or a link to a specific comic hosted on another site (the author's website, for instance).
- The comic must be a complete story.
- If it is an external link, it must be to a specific story, not to the root of the site.
- You may post comics from others or your own.
- If you are posting a comic of your own, a maximum of one per week is allowed (I know, your comics are great, but this rule helps avoid spam).
- The comic can be in any language, but if it's not in English, OP must include an English translation in the post's 'body' field (note: you don't need to select a specific language when posting a comic).
- Politeness.
- Adult content is not allowed. This community aims to be fun for people of all ages.
Web of links
- !linuxmemes@lemmy.world: "I use Arch btw"
- !memes@lemmy.world: memes (you don't say!)
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Throwaway's thing seems to be making shallow bad rightwing takes and backing them up with nothing of substance. I don't think they are engaging genuinely.
So most conservatives when pressed on any of their beliefs.
We need to pressure mods to start banning them then.
It literally doesn't even matter what they're arguing about. The fact they're speaking in bad faith is what makes them problematic and the only ones who do that are those who have bad intentions.
Governments pay people to do that deliberately to forum slide, and there is a lot of revolutionary talk on Lemmy. A good way to stop anyone from doing something is to argue doing that action will violate a value they treasure -- like freedom of speech -- putting them in a hole where they try to convince the troll, and by proxy themselves, they're not being hypocrites. Which never happens because an honest debate where the acknowledgement the victim seeks was always impossible to get, and therefore the dissonance never resolvable. It's called cognitive dissonance, it's a trick abusers use, look it up.
Plus we're dealing with fascists, who take over governments from the inside, so it's reasonable to assume it's them doing it, too.
So speaking in bad faith needs to be policed and banned. Mods who refuse to do it should be replaced with those who will. If the mods are determined by everyone else to be ruling in bad faith, they need to be removed for that as well.
Human consensus based decision making is not perfect, but it's all we have and we have to make the most of it.