this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2025
478 points (98.8% liked)

News

23916 readers
4860 users here now

Welcome to the News community!

Rules:

1. Be civil


Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.


2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.


Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.


3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.


Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.


4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.


Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.


5. Only recent news is allowed.


Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.


6. All posts must be news articles.


No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.


7. No duplicate posts.


If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.


8. Misinformation is prohibited.


Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.


9. No link shorteners.


The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.


10. Don't copy entire article in your post body


For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 38 points 1 day ago (4 children)

A friend and I were discussing this. It seems like these days it's more rewarding, objectively, to be a shitbag than to actually be a good human. We're constantly being played for suckers despite having morals. Everyone else is cheating in this tragedy of the moral commons.

[–] rational_lib@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's a selection bias, we usually hear about the most successful shitbags. Most ordinary shitbags live pretty terrible lives. Just look at the life of the typical red state resident. Usually working their ass off in a blue collar for some plutocrat who abuses them, subjected to country music all day long. Almost makes me feel bad for them.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Most ordinary shitbags live pretty terrible lives

Same goes for most ordinary non-shitbags.

[–] FMT99@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

The point is, just because one shitbag gets away with it, that shouldn't motivate you to also become a shitbag.

[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

I hope you don't think this is just a recent thing...

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 5 points 1 day ago

Enter the church

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

At some point there will be a correction and history will not look kindly on these people.

[–] Mammothmothman@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago

Dude people have been waiting for that since before Jesus Christ.

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Victors wright the history books my friend