ArgumentativeMonotheist
@ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world
- Comment on Streaming Is Raising Prices Faster Than Cable Ever Did 1 week ago:
Against which race? 🤔
- Comment on Streaming Is Raising Prices Faster Than Cable Ever Did 2 weeks ago:
I’ve seen their libraries… they wanna serve me garbage and want me to pay for it? Pure insanity. Idk how so many people watch this goyslop without feeling disgusted with themselves, without thinking that their intelligence is being insulted 1. because they’re watching garbage, 2. because the executives thought we were dumb enough to enjoy it and they were sadly right, and I don’t know how they willingly give their money to these companies when a 5 minute search can give you access to everything, but whatever.
This, and ads, are things I haven’t been burdened with since my teenage years, and I don’t understand how people don’t feel some sort of moral disgust/personally insulted by participating in it. Maybe I’m too sensitive. 🤷♂️
- Comment on Why does watching or partaking in mainstream media make me uncomfortable? 4 weeks ago:
Many things are dull/meh to garbage and loved by people because of marketing and poor taste (and you know it, you know it’s slop for human cattle while they don’t, and the fact that people willingly engage with it is depressing and makes you feel alone) many things are actually good/great and become somewhat popular also. You shouldn’t have a problem with the latter case by itself, although as we all know that might mean sequels, prequels, spinoffs and “creative resets” and eventually some australopithecus will come around and say something like “hey, did you watch Dune: Prophecy/The Rings of Power, it’s so fucking good, bro!”, lol, which is annoying/painful.
I try to just be happy for them the same way my wife is happy for me when she sees me enjoy a greasy, cheap, industrial meal. The difference is my taste buds and intelligence are disconnected so I can realise I’m enjoying the slop… it’s not the same with media for obvious reasons.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
What does that word mean to you?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Not the feeeeeemales, lol. Anyway, do it casually and in earnest, like you’re just pointing something out (even if you don’t exactly know what has changed) instead of trying to ingratiate yourself with them (“did you do something to your hair? It looks great!”; “wow, your handwriting is lovely”; “damn, great X, it really compliments you”). Like, do it for good reasons and I’m sure you’ll be fine: spreading positivity and making those around you happier (without lying, ofc). And then continue the conversation.
As a straight man married into a semi-matriarchy, who was also the man of the house since the age of 15 and has mostly female friends, I can confidently tell you a compliment or two will go very far with women in all age groups, and you should try sliding one early into every convo, and also to distract them if the convo gets too deep and into territories that are gonna start an argument if you remain truthful. I literally did this yesterday with my wife’s crazier aunt before the conversation went south: “damn, that eyeliner really make your eyes pop, I got a little lost there! Hehe”. And I managed to then change the topic, lol. My wife was sitting next to me and just texted me “👌”. Just for reference, the aunty is close to or 60 so yeah, boys will be boys and girls will be girls.
- Comment on Capital of Estonia after a visit from Swedish football fans 1 month ago:
White Americans are just (usually) even more uncouth Europeans???
- Comment on A lot of people who try to start a religion are seen as mentally ill. Like Jim Jones, David Koresh, the UFO guy, and L Ron Hubbard. Then could it be a safe bet that Jesus was mentally ill? 2 months ago:
He didn’t start anything though, he was just a very vocal, very driven, very informed Jew. Then the Romans killed him and used his image for their own imperialistic objectives.
- Comment on Anon is a child prodigy 3 months ago:
“Ambition” is often just a “bell curve meme” situation, lol.
- Comment on I'm gonna ask the simplest complex question ever. What is happiness, to you? 3 months ago:
The bliss of satiating a deep hunger. Ass is life!
- Comment on I'm gonna ask the simplest complex question ever. What is happiness, to you? 3 months ago:
We’re here to serve. 🤷
- Comment on I'm gonna ask the simplest complex question ever. What is happiness, to you? 3 months ago:
Congrats/let’s goooo on all accounts! 🎉
- Comment on Is there any way I can scare myself into not using AI and actually using my brain? 3 months ago:
A young American lady would say it’s “an ick”, is that enough? How can I respect you and trust your guidance if you’re just a parrot for an algorithm? 🙃
- Comment on What do you think happens if I stop using AI for a month? 3 months ago:
Is it for day to day stuff or for structuring essays/writing code? If it’s the former, then you can probably expect feeling the cognitive weight of thinking/researching. 🤷
- Comment on I'm gonna ask the simplest complex question ever. What is happiness, to you? 3 months ago:
Pleasure/ease is not happiness, as I have been a directionless, purposeless NEET with no responsibilities but enough disposable income to finance my hedonism, and a full-time worker, part-time student married man, and the former made me suicidal after a while. If you’re lucky enough that you can just basically live like a pig, rolling in your own filth and just chilling until death, then good for you (not you, OP, just the “global” you 😅) but I can’t.
I’d say “the feeling/mental state resulting from realising you’re living according to your values (which involves identity and self esteem), balancing duty and pleasure/ease, in the momentary absence of great emotional pain/distress”. Or something like that. 👍
- Comment on What do you think happens if I stop using AI for a month? 3 months ago:
What do you use them for and how often?
- Comment on Would you ever tell your son — assuming you had two sons — that you don’t need him? 3 months ago:
Only someone really disturbed/immature/confused would do something like that. If it happened to you, I’m sorry, I empathise. Not having a decent father is almost a meme at this point with how common it is in some circles, but this goes way further.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 4 months ago:
I guess we have different definitions of “cramming down someone’s throat”.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 4 months ago:
I really don’t feel like I’m cramming anything down anyone’s throat.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 4 months ago:
Okay, so, are you gonna block me now or do you just want to continue getting whatever anger you have out of your system, safely against someone that’s not part of the in-group? 🤔
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 4 months ago:
The people I “judge” (and I’m actually critical of ideas and values, and those can change and I’m all for that) don’t even care about morality or being a “good person” in general, as evidenced by my many convos here with some particular specimens, lol. Come on, man, if the glove doesn’t fit no one’s forcing you to wear it so what’s going on?
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 4 months ago:
I know how the short-sighted, amoral, hedonistic and overall godless Westerners feel, I speak here because of it more than in spite of it. But if they cannot handle even some mention of the Creator here and there, the block option is always available. For the rest, who tolerate it because maybe they find something worthwhile there despite feeling annoyed, I’m more than willing to engage.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 4 months ago:
You’re triggered by something that’s as common as saying “hello” in my circles. I would recommend you block me so you don’t have to suffer more.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 4 months ago:
You’ve spent more words than me talking about it here… And monotheism is the framework through which I understand existence, it’s at the core of my moral beliefs and otherwise and not just decoration, so it makes sense it would come up a lot.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 4 months ago:
I mean, I am a person and it happens to me. But regardless, all I said was “I’m too monotheistic and… for .ml”, which is true, and it was a single phrase in a long-ass post so I don’t think I was being too whiney or idk.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 4 months ago:
I know they have their reasons, especially if they’re American because most big Trinitarian denominations would give Jesus an aneurysm, but that’s not me nor most people in the world who claim to be religious. And it is necessary, because Trinitarians think Jesus, a man, is also the Creator, and there’s also the Holy Spirit somewhere and that makes up their pantheon. And I just mentioned it because it’s true, because just by saying things like “oh thank God” people start getting uppity at times, nvm pointing things out while quoting the Qur’an or the Bible. It’s like you’ve forgotten where we are. You can tell me “just take the negativity and unnecessary hostility, it is what it is”, you can’t tell me it isn’t a thing…
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 4 months ago:
Yeah, because Lemmy in general and .ml like/have a good opinion of religious folk…
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 4 months ago:
Okay, fair and good definition but I really don’t think whatever .ml-vibed post or narrative that gains any traction, to the point of it being an integral part of the community’s ideology, upholds those tankie values. And, therefore, the reputation is unearned. And they may exist but I don’t interact much with those people because I’m a lil banned so I guess I don’t see all of their content, idk.
And, circling back to OP’s case, I think the downvotes are a reaction to the narrative that “.ml is tankie” when they’re just anti-Western (like most of the world but that’s a different convo, they’re just anti-Western in Western online spaces), discarding the whole comment instead of “taking a side” because that would just give more weight to the narrative.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 4 months ago:
I have one already but it’s not a person, ofc. And I don’t know who they is/are, but what I do know is that the claim that people who are anti-Western imperialism and reject Western narratives are just misguided/the enemy is the same as before and whatever name they give it, the narratives stay the same. It’s a ghost they fight, I haven’t seen anyone say or allude to supporting oppressive, imperialist, “commie/socialist” policies. Basically, I haven’t seen actual tankies, if the term means anything.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 4 months ago:
Maybe, I don’t know, I don’t speak for .ml. Cool username btw. ✌️
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 4 months ago:
Perhaps, but I really don’t think that’s the take over there, I think they think you’re fighting strawmen.