citing facts from wikipedia or usa govt data and getted banned from lemmy communities for being a troll because that data isn’t convenient to the narrative the userbase or mods are pushing.

it’s almost as if people hate before informed when information disputes or challenges their over simplified beliefs that it’s just ‘those other bad people’ who are causing everything to be awful.

Aren’t they the new wayfair?

Wayfair is based in my city and notorious for treating their employees like absolute crap and doing the ‘up or out’ business model that only rewards people who work 80hour weeks

most schools offer this for kids.

and a lot of music places offer rentals.

Right?

So many people are ignorant of history. I had someone in another thread screaming at me how this is all because of 2001. As if this stuff didn’t happen before then.

If you stand up against this, everyone on every other side tries to tear you down as a traitor to their own cause(s).

There is no winning in the middle anymore.

one reason people don’t admit they are wrong is because other people will shame and attack them for being wrong.

admitting you were wrong isn’t consequence free. it’s shameful, bad, and weak and others want to punish you for it. hence why people are incentivized to never admit they are wrong… because that often avoids those consequences and a lot of people admire someone who never admits they are wrong as strong and good and they are inspired by it.

There are people who won’t socialize at all unless it involves alcohol

You don’t.

Just live your life. If you don’t want to be atomized, don’t be.

because you’re not lonely. you’re just a jerk.

No, it’s normal.

What is immature is to dwell on it and prevent you from moving on with your life. Like, I’m in my 40s and I meet people who are still hung up on shit that happened to them in high school or college. It’s weird.

i’m from the US and I agree. Lemmy has really gone downhill the past few months and its FULL of ragebait posting of craptastic ‘news’ articles.

rage drives engagement.

it’s just how the internet works. angry people post and reply a lot more than non-angry people.

and angry posts tend to be shorter, easier to comprehend, and induce more angry responses.

thoughtful and non-rage takes don’t drive engagement from people. it mostly bores them.

people come to be entertained, more than anything else.

i mean, this is how it works in practice.

it’s just that the company is on whomevers side that’s in power. they donate to both campaigns usually.

it’s called guilt by assocation. it’s shitty and lame type of logical fallacy

if you live on the same street as a nazi, you must be a nazi. because apparently you have to sell your home and move away if a nazi moves in.

of course, if you do this and it’s a non-white person you are racist… and a bad person, but if you do it for a nazi you’re a good person.

it’s not as if the logic of the thing is what at’s fault, and the accuser has hyperbolic sense of other people’s social obligations to appeal to their sensibility.

it doesn’t matter what you want, society dictates the rules.

unless you go off the grid or something. then you can go make your perfect society, because there won’t be one.

nobody doesn’t care about money. anyone who says they don’t is a liar and are usually the people who are the most easily bought.

yeah but you have at least half a brain.

most internet users barely have 1/10 of one. and demand other users be banned for not sharing their opinions, but would be outraged if they were banned for their objectionable opinions.

Edit: And you know what? I’m just going to fucking say it. There’s too many armchair activists here who won’t let you enjoy a single moment without reminding you that something bad is happening somewhere in the world and that you have some kind of moral obligation to be angry all the time about it. And if you’re not angry all the time then you’re somehow part of the problem.

Amen.

I am so sick of being lectured by some weirdo about ‘WHY AREN’T YOU DOING ANYTHING’. It’s nothing more than them projecting their pathetic helpless miserable life onto others. ‘if you dont’ support my pet issue than you are a morally bankrupt person!’

a lot of people who came here are the insufferable types from reddit who think it’s their ‘duty’ to harass and shit on anyone who dares hold a different view of the world than they do, or who is more open minded than ‘anyone i don’t like is a nazi’.

i am not using piefed. maybe it’s better for admins, but I’m not an admin.