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Thanks! It’s going great lol

You couldn’t be more wrong dude. I was sincerely interested in what you had to say. My “not going to inflict you on them” was entirely couched in an explanation most people would consider reasonable, and phrased in a way that I tried to make clear wasn’t an attack - it was only unfamiliarity. What I said is I don’t know you, not that I dislike you. And ya know what? Turns out I was right lol, you’re impossible to talk to!

You’re doing the thing right now. You’ve made up your mind completely about who I am and what I’m up to, and anything I say, you interpret through that lens.

I can’t help you with that. And sheesh, even speaking politely is interpreted by you as a trolling tactic? Get a fucking grip, you sound like an asshole and a moron. Why would anyone who disagrees with you bother to go through this? Besides which, you’re just wrong. You don’t have to go far through my comment history to find an instance of me strongly disagreeing with someone (re: recent comments by Obama). At the end of it, I realized they were right, I was the one misreading, and I apologized. But hey, maybe that’s another one of my sophisticated troll techniques!

I don’t hate you, I’m not mad at you, I don’t wish you ill will. I just don’t want to talk to you, and wish I hadn’t bothered.

Go ahead and spin this comment into whatever weird shit, too, should be entertaining.

You don’t seem to really even be trying to read my comments charitably, a courtesy I’ve been extending to you. That’s not a discussion, it’s just trying to score points on someone.

You do you, but I’m all done.

Interesting!

We really have very different experiences it seems. And honestly, I think that’s for the best! A big strength of federation-style tech.

Some responses:

• I intentionally stopped short of pointing you toward the parts of Lemmy I was talking about. I don’t know you - if you’re curious, you’ll find em; but I don’t know you and they aren’t “my” spaces, I’m not going to inflict you on them just to make a point, know what I mean?

• if you’re willing (feel free to tell me to fuck myself lol, given my statement above), where are you finding these “real activist groups”? I can’t say I’ve ever once seen the like online. To be fair, I tuned out of “social media” (the big platforms) more than 10 years ago and spent a considerable amount of that time jaded and uninvolved on that level.

• I really can’t understand any defence of modern Reddit whatsoever (assuming you’re defending modern Reddit, you didn’t indicate otherwise). For a long time now it’s been hilariously controlled, are you talking about subreddits that have managed to fly under the radar or something?

• completely agree that we got a whoooole lotta thoughtless meme’ing here. Pretty much comes with the territory though…

Oh, edit to add - I also haven’t seen IRL events organized on Lemmy, agree with you there. That’s not at all what I was saying, my bad - I meant that I run into folks who do IRL organizing, and happen to chime in about things online. The opposite of “online -> IRL” you’re describing.

Depending on situation of course, I explicitly do not remove work that any individual is paid to do.

Had to really unfuck my brain to get there, because it simply feels kind to make someone’s work day easier.

I’m not saying make it harder. BUT - any justification we produce, accidentally or otherwise, for eliminating jobs, harms us and helps the parasitic owner class.

I say don’t clean up after yourself too well, as odd as it sounds - help the owners understand the need for janitors.

It’s worse than him simply kissing the ring, much worse. Dude’s worldviews are gross, regardless of Trump. Behind the Bastards did a thorough dive, dunno if podcast format works well for ya, but there’s a lotta info there. But yeah, you’re not the only one who got whiplash from him being so right about corporate work life, yet wrong about…well, roughly everything else.

Yet another (sad) lesson I guess about art, specifically the evergreen, permanently mystifying, distinction between the art and the artist.

Not down voting you, in case it matters to ya, but largely disagree.

People here (just lemmy generally) tend to be completely irrational and anal about terms and just want to dunk on the establishment while having no actual plans to achieve their goals.

That’s what I have always found almost anywhere, and Lemmy is the first place online where I’ve run into the opposite - sincere, informed, motivated individuals who not only have a plan, but actively work towards it IRL. Sure, there’s plenty of do-nothing know-it-all types, I’ve almost certainly been one myself here more than once - but if you’re seeing that as the primary Lemmy thing, sounds like you just need to curate your Lemmy feed. Get away from the folks wanting to recreate Reddit, ya know? Pretty sure that’s where a lotta the “I know everything, but have done and will do nothing” personalities came from anyway.

Yep, we got it, pretty clear.

Just say “evidence of Trump raping children”, though. Your “having sex with minors” suuure sounds like the minimizing, deliberate lying (to hide extreme harm) that all the fuckin rags do.