It’s the “You got upset, I win” bullshit that infested reddit and is now infesting Lemmy.
It's what I call the "4chan mentality" where they just want you to react - they'll do or say anything to get you to interact with them. As long as you're responding, they feel like they won on some level.
But getting upset and hostile doesn't stop them. They enjoy that. That's part of the problem.
I’ve been nice to them and trying to politely educate them for over 20 years now, since W was in office. I’ve convinced a grand total of 2, and in the meantime, 30 million worse ones have arisen.
holy shit are you me?
I’d like to remind you that you don’t get to redefine words.
Yeah I don't think that's what happened and definitely didn't read it that way in the post.
Yeah I'm broke right now so I'm just trying to hold out until payday.
I hate this though because it makes me want to eat more. I'm having to like pace myself so I don't eat everything in my house in one go.
I only just learned about these because of your post but now I'm extremely interested.
Yeah, I think the reason I stayed in shitty places like 4chan and other alt right places was because I thought I was getting through to people.
And I am someone they hate. I'm a bisexual woman who actually dated women and I'm filipino. So bam, two things they not only hate but like to exploit and use.
But I found they often will go along with stuff like this just so they can add fuel to their fire so to speak. They want to have stories where someone tried to explain something to them, or they want to have that argument about how "black men have a violent gene" like they would just enjoy discussing that instead of actually changing their mind. They love to be contrarian about anything.
And of course that's the crowd that overlaps with white supremacy. So it seems like you can through to some of them who probably aren't in that deep but others- you're right, there's too much working against you to fight it. Plus the people you're fighting, are enjoying the fight.
Like how do you get through to someone who gets off on that?
No? I set a show to record and its there forever.
edited to add: unless you don't know what you like? I mean, I like something, I record it. Then I can watch it. Super easy. no scrolling.
do you work in an office located in the jungle?
are there any artists on mastadon? I feel like I have given mastadon so many chances but never really find anything worthwhile there.
Back when it was twitter before I gave up on it, I only really followed artists and people who I thought were funny so really I was just looking for art to retweet if I liked it enough.
Obviously most people don't use it for this but it sucks cause all those artists scattered now across social media- they're on instagram which I hate using or some of them went to tumblr and now they rarely even update.
I've had luck shouting things into the void before.
Thank you. I got shit on just yesterday for being bisexual.