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🤠🐍Crikey! Look at this beauty! What we've got here is a absolutely stunning specimen of a .ML comment in its natural habitat!
Now, you've gotta be real careful with these fellas - they're absolutely fascinating to observe, but don't you dare let 'em get their hooks into ya! See, what they'll do is they'll present themselves as perfectly reasonable, right? But if you start believin' what they're sayin', mate, they'll latch onto your critical thinking and just absolutely devour it from the inside out!
This is one of the most dangerous thought parasites in the digital ecosystem, and she's a beaut! Best observed from a safe distance with your skepticism intact. What a ripper! 📷
You gonna eat that?
Do you have any kind of real substantive things to say to me or is it just liberal pablum?
Like do you think I see criticisms from liberals who enjoying licking the boot on their neck and take it seriously?
I would love to engage in an actual conversation if you are capable.
actually i more or less agree with your analysis of walz and Klobuchar's political leanings. I would support any true left candidate for sure. You were just kind of an angry dick in your comment, which is why I decided to take a shot in jest.
I think you are ascribing a character to what I said that is not there. Where was I angry or a dick in what I said? I'm just being honest.
You right that your written text specifically doesn't call for that.
The dick part comes from the context and your word choice; the "meta" if you will. The users see the post title, then they see the comments, and they get this specific thread where the first comment was calling out shitty centrism.
Then your reply was critical and sarcastic: "its funny..." it's not funny. You clearly don't think it's funny. You're being sarcastic, which in this context is a hostile choice. If we were in a room together, everyone would feel the negative vibe.
further the fact that you were being critical of the poster who technically did write something that you agree with. But it wasn't good enough for you. You had to criticize it for not being good enough. Dickish.
And the cherry on top is that ML has a really bad reputation. I have personally quit discussions with ml people because there's no honest discussion, it's just a jump to pushing niche agenda and anger and putting others down. You are wearing that domain on your name tag. It speaks to something about the choices you make and the people you like to associate with.
All of these things combined is why I think you're getting downvoted to hell.
I don't know you personally and the fact that you're actually open to some discussion is quite valuable in my book. Personally, you're coming off as much higher quality person than most ML people I've dealt with.
You asked, so I answered!
So again just gonna point out that no one has any substantive things to say to me its all just how you feel which is utterly worthless.
I always question this idea that .ml instances are somehow bad rep. The perspectives are so varied from the left of whatever the Lemmy.world instance is at political that that is a really wild generalization. Are there annoying leftists? Oh my god yes but there are also annoying liberals.
You do need to have people be willing to engage in good faith, which I do strive to do, but its not pushing an agenda its expressing a different political ideology which largely fundamentally reimagines what society can be in a way where it is better for us all. Not modest reform that makes you feel like things are better when all the same systems of oppression exists but one where those systems are gone. It takes a lot of work to learn how to have those conversations in a way that is productive and wholly valueless...they are almost impossible to do over these kinds of forums unless every party is coming to the table in good faith which I find to be rare.
Anyway I disagree with how you are characterizing what I said still but agree to disagree I guess.
Spoken like a true liberal lmao