maniclucky

joined 1 year ago
[–] maniclucky@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

For them, hate is fun (or the closest approximation thereof). It all makes sense after that.

[–] maniclucky@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Conservatives are really anti conservation for some strange reason.

[–] maniclucky@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

That and The Onion could never outperform info wars in terms of absurdity... Still...

[–] maniclucky@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Greta Thunberg, swedish environmental activist and a favorite hate watch of conservatives.

[–] maniclucky@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago

It's only controversial for those who are being called out on being terrible people on a moral level.

[–] maniclucky@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

May want to give that four years or so. It's just going to be predictable, depressing slog with no avenue to affect change between here and there

[–] maniclucky@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

As a gay guy who's definitely been in the room for gay jokes because they didn't know I was gay: yes, you do. If you are only willing to call out bad behavior when you may get caught associating with it, then you aren't actually an ally.

[–] maniclucky@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

I can only control my own behavior. I cannot force another to change, they have to want to. The only thing I can do is draw the lines I'm willing to live within and live by them. And if not associating with bad people, even if they are family, is what I need to live in a healthy way, so be it.

[–] maniclucky@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

The paradox of tolerance is poorly named. Tolerance is part of the social contract and one that breaks the contract is no longer protected by it. The intolerant are excusing themselves from the contract and the rest of us can and should exclude them from the society they harmed.

[–] maniclucky@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Someone posted a follow up elsewhere. He did in fact mean it that way.

[–] maniclucky@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's a bad faith argument and a strawman. They don't actually think it's reasonable for anyone to do that or think the other person is suggesting that. They are setting a person up as a hypocrite despite that obviously being an insufficient and inefficient solution to the housing crisis.

[–] maniclucky@lemmy.world 27 points 3 weeks ago

The poor do not have the ability to manipulate mass quantities of people, the rich do. Because they are rich and have the resources and connections to accomplish this. They buy politicians and manipulate to cause the conditions you describe. If they were not rich, they could not do that.

Blaming the poor for being manipulated is bad faith. And victim blaming is not an effective rallying strategy.

 

So I stopped generally using Reddit after the whole API thing but my husband still does and we talk about stuff since Lemmy gets the job done.

One thing he likes is to hop on r/freecompliments and participate there.

Well, today he got permanently banned. Why? Because a bot dredged his profile and found that he sometimes participates in porn subreddits. Usually to complement people there, never posting himself. He's pretty ace, so it's rarely, if ever, sexual. But that was enough for the bot to ban him.

They sent a message about how they are sfw subreddit and don't allow users to participate in NSFW subreddits.

He's heartbroken about it. He really likes to be nice to people and it makes his day when they respond to him. Now he can't do that in a sub that's meant for it.

I feel like the site rules have opinions about banning like this, but it's not like the admins give a fuck. So fuck those mods and their puritanical bullshit making at least once persons day worse, for the low cost of a user that was participating in good faith.

And since I'm on a roll, fuck spez

I tried posting this to trueoffmychest to dredge some sympathy for him, since that seemed appropriate and he was good with it, but they don't allow 'anger' or 'impersonal' posts and that got quietly removed immediately. So fuck them too. I didn't realize how far down the shitter reddit has gone.

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