I havenât found that to be the case, but maybe my groupthink is stronger than I thought.
I will admit I creeped your comments a bit, but you seem pretty progressive to be. What sort of toxic reactions are you talking about?
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chakan2@lemmy.world â¨1⊠â¨year⊠ago
Really? I just kind of come here when I really want to feel bad about myself. This community is twice as toxic as reddit if youâre not part of the group think.
I havenât found that to be the case, but maybe my groupthink is stronger than I thought.
I will admit I creeped your comments a bit, but you seem pretty progressive to be. What sort of toxic reactions are you talking about?
My last comment got downvoted for saying I have never watched Fox news đ¤ˇđž.
feels like an upvote worthy comment to me.
Maybe peole felt if youâre on the internet itâs almost impossible not to have seen SOME news clips from them.
I mean I hate fox and I actively avoid them. but theyâve definitely floated in front of my eyes plenty of times inadvertently.
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Fox channel was the Simpsons channel growing up, so I caught some of it invariably. I could believe a young person might not have seen it, though.
Iâm on the internet a lot and Iâve heard of Fox News over and over, but Iâm not sure Iâve actually seen anything from it.
A bit delayed, but you posted in fuck cars, about why car disincentive schemes are a cash grab. It wasnât about Fox news.
I mean, I donât disagree with you that if you donât use the proceeds to help the planet or infra improve for non-car users, it is just a cash grab, but you probably needs to be aware what community youâre on, and what the consensus view is. Saying that 4chan is for right wing racist kids on green text is going to get you swimming in downvotes. It doesnât mean anything bad about you, or your view, it just means you probably werenât fully aware of the context and probably are a little bit sensitive about downvotes. Karma does not matter here, and disagreements and downvotes mean people care about what you say, even if itâs in a disagreeable way.
I donât agree with your take, but I appreciate you being here. :)
Oh I was well aware what community I was in đ. I hate cars and exclusively ride bikes myself and here I was making a joke how I managed to get !fuck_cars of all places to downvote me for not watching fox news. All because my groupthink is not exactly identical to their groupthink (I am not the grandparent comment btw).
The secret is that karma does not matter anywhere! However, as long as the comment sorting algorithm is the way it is, I will keep believing that the downvote button is for posts that are non-constructive contributions, not for disagreement. Burying discussion is not constructive, but thatâs what the algorithm will do. Maybe this is a hopeless task, but I wish that after a conversation I have learned something new, or taught someone something, not just made myself feel better.
Just donât say centrist too loudly and youâll be ok I guess.
Iâm left leaning center these days.
Unless you mean something totally different than the popular interpretation (ie meaning) of the term, then âcentristâ is a very politically charged position to take when virtually everyone, whether left or right leaning, at least agrees that things arenât great right now
I disagree. Except for rare incidents people who heavily disagreed with me at least made arguments as to why and most of the times these arguments were related to the arguments i made.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world â¨1⊠â¨year⊠ago
If you like Windows, automobiles, and guns youâre in for a world of hatred here
HW07@lemmy.world â¨1⊠â¨year⊠ago
And if youâre center-right probably. Lemmy seems to be on the masses more left wing (which I am too, sorry dumb human brain has to share itâs opinion)
figaro@lemdro.id â¨1⊠â¨year⊠ago
Nah man, Iâm pretty far left. Apparently that isnât good enough here though. I feel like if Iâm not north of Leninâs ass here, Iâm capitalist scum. Its pretty frustrating
Hadriscus@lemm.ee â¨1⊠â¨year⊠ago
thatâs the hexbear teen rebels giving you this impression
kirby@discuss.tchncs.de â¨1⊠â¨year⊠ago
I just think theyâre good for ventilation, whatâs wrong with them?
/s
problematicPanther@lemmy.world â¨1⊠â¨year⊠ago
i like two out of three of those things and nobody hates me yet.
Hadriscus@lemm.ee â¨1⊠â¨year⊠ago
You like windows and guns ?? fairly unusual
problematicPanther@lemmy.world â¨1⊠â¨year⊠ago
Eew, windows