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V low effort trolling, do better
That's the spirit! Anyone with a different opinion from mine can only be trolling, and doubly so if their opinion requires me to - gasp - question literally anything at all. Echo chambers are the Lemmy way, after all.
It’s not an issue of opinion, it’s that your argument is logically insufficient and you sound stupid.
No, I just have basic pattern recognition, sowwy sweety
If you're not happy with the state of the place, why do you come here?
You're giving me the same "well if you don't like it then you should just leave" rhetoric that Republicans use in response to my efforts to make this a better place? This thread is a hell of a trip.
I wouldn't say the tone you're using conveys an intention to better the environment. It feels more like you're stressing yourself out.
I'm more concerned with the hypocrisy than the tone policing myself, but either way I'm only returning the energy I'm being given.
See there it is again! Tone policing would imply you're being limited in expression. You're allowed to be an asshole if you want to, but getting upset at people's responses to it is like being mad at them because you pissed your own pants. More importantly, why subject yourself to it if you're not happy with it?
Nobody here is upset - I pointed out that Lemmings are hypocrites, they predictably didn't like that and upped the vitriol, and I returned as good as I got. I'm very used to voicing uncomfortable truths on the internet - there's no need for this weird, patronizing coddling thing you've got going on.
See, again I have to wonder what your reasoning is here. Aside from seeing no posts about states rights, your response was the only thing that would register as vitriolic. And again, why do it? What brings you to the internet that would make you used to voicing uncomfortable truths? You wouldn't go out into the world with the goal of sitting in uncomfortable chairs? Why do the digital equivalent if it's not bringing you any joy?
The bandwagon effect is strong here. They condemn Trump for "rigging" elections, yet they're perfectly comfortable downvoting anything that doesn't fit their paradigm regardless of how correct it is. That undermines the intended purpose of upvoting and downvoting.
I believe the word for that is hypocrisy.
I really thought this comment was satire, then I got to the end and the satire turn never happened. Turns out it was just stupid.
The irony of posting this comment in this specific chain would be hilarious if it weren't so sad.
He’s right, though. Isn’t he? All you saw was “states’ rights,” and your immediate reaction was, “He supports slavery,” even though his comment had nothing to do with slavery. States’ rights are a legitimate constitutional concept. They exist independently of racism.
You were so locked into your presuppositions that the only response you could imagine was satire.
You advocate for federal authority when it suits you, and then invoke states’ rights when that is more convenient.
The logical fallacies just keep stacking higher.
Cool straw man you built that's completely unrelated to anything said in the comment you replied to. No idea where you even pulled slavery from but I bet you're having an epic takedown in your head.
At no point did I obfuscate the argument into something more easily defensible this is exactly what people were saying under his original comment.
Then again, most people who use the term straw man don't know what it is... That goes doubly for you.
You replied to me motherfucker, and said "you" said things, and now you're posting screenshots of other people's comments to pretend this wasn't just you having the argument you wanted to have?
Maybe if that argument was being made by other people you should have fucking made it to them.
So you agree with me that you don't know what a straw man is?