"Stop discriminating against me and judging me and saying bad things about me! Also, you're going to burn and suffer for all eternity in hell because of who you're attracted to."
Zero22xx
joined 2 months ago
Judging this guy by the rest of the company he's in as far as these Cybertrucks go, I wonder how "open to differences" he is towards other people.
- Damn them for name dropping Raven like that without her showing up.
- Holy shit Red X! Great way to bring back Dick Grayson and resolve that storyline, actually.
- Now I want to see more of the Titans in this show.
- I do not care much for the Macaroni, so I'm fine with that random development. Besides, knowing this show, Alfred will be back some time working for Bruce again anyway.
- Yay! We're gonna get Harley and Lois working together! Now I'm really looking forward to the next few episodes. I was thinking of saving the last 5 episodes up and binging them but I don't think I'll be able to wait now lol.
Econ 101 is liberal propaganda. They'd rather use much more trustworthy sources, like uneducated neckbeards ranting on YouTube.
I cannot get into Lemmy. It was just endless wars about who was federated with who.
Honestly, this gave me some trepidation when I first got here too. When you're checking out a list of servers, you're going by the descriptions written on the page. There's no footnotes about the little wars and name calling that on about this.
So someone is going to sign up on ml because it says it's focused on software dev and FOSS, then encounter people who judge them based on the fucking url after their username rather than the content of their posts. And I'm still not completely on board with the conversations and memes that perpetuate this.
When I got here and caught wind of this stuff, I actually questioned if I was even in the right place. That stuff is not attractive to new users who are just getting started up. It makes it seem like this platform is a minefield that you need to tiptoe around when you're seeing it for the first time.
This place has a few problems IMO. Not just the UX but also a lot of the users, I'm afraid to say. For example, in my first week here I saw another new user arrive and make a post in one of the ask communities asking if there is a gen z space. And this person didn't get an answer to their question but instead got a bunch of angry sounding snarky snark from people going "who cares about labels? I just came here and made the effort of typing this comment to show you how little I care. Because that's how cool I am."
And I've been seeing it all the time, to be honest. People here seem to struggle with the concept of just scrolling past something that doesn't interest them and they just have to stop by to tell anyone how stupid they think their interests are. And that's in addition to new users feeling like they need to tiptoe around instance wars. And that's after making the effort of trying to get started on a new, confusing (at first) platform.
So I'd love to see this place grow personally. But the longer I'm here, the more I have my doubts that it will happen. Honestly if another alternative popped up using the Bluesky protocol, I'd probably check it out in hopes that there's more women around who allowed to exist and in hopes that the general populace is a little more friendly as far as people's interests and likes and dislikes go.
Yeah well these news publications are starting to blatantly insult everyone's intelligence now. If it was really unexpected, there wouldn't be a bunch of comments here saying "Unexpected? Really?"
Yup. And I think that once again, a large part of this is the influence of the 'manosphere' putting bullshit into their heads.
There's been a couple of occasions having this conversation where people respond to me and say they don't listen to Jordan Peterson or whatever but they're still lonely. But then they'll say something like "I need marriage and children to be a complete human being or else I'm a failure in life. And I've been robbed." I mean, what the fuck. They're just kids or young adults.
So these guys are attempting relationships with all of this heavy shit about marriage and children and status and ownership in mind and chasing people away. I would run away too if someone started making wedding plans on the second date. And they're not looking for a person that they get along with and can spend the rest of their life with, they're looking for someone who can make their babies for them. Ewww.
Honestly sometimes this 'manosphere' shit is a little bit like purity culture. And it sometimes reminds me of some of the more cultish churches I've come across that push 18 year old kids who are dating into early marriage or else they're "living in sin". In fact I'm pretty sure that there's a religious right wing agenda behind it.
These kids need to stop clutching their pearls and acting like religious fanatics and just have some fucking fun. Go into things with zero expectations. Have one night stands. Enjoy their youth. And if in the process of that, they meet 'the one', then that's a bonus. They don't need to be tied down with kids and bills to pay by the time they're 21 just to be seen as any more of a 'man'. In fact that would just be sad.
I know that there's a teenager advice community of some flavour floating around in the Blåhaj server. But I'm gonna take a guess that the only reason it's there is because people who can't just scroll past things were downvoting it. I have a feeling that if an instance or multiple communities for teenagers popped up, the users here would probably terrorize it until it all closed down.