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[-] Stoneykins@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Oh I'm willing to have a few comments, I should have been more clear. I was just saying I didn't want this to just keep going indefinitely. Bye!

[-] Stoneykins@lemmy.one 11 points 1 year ago

I don't intend to have a back and forth with you, I have reason to believe it would be unproductive and frustrating.

Maybe just consider that people have no better recourse to judge a person than their actions, and mitch has done terrible things. His motivations, and whether or not he is "evil" or just generally trying to do the right thing, are irrelevant in the face of his destructive political actions. People aren't happy that an old man had a seizure, they are happy the old man might not be causing harm much longer.

[-] Stoneykins@lemmy.one 13 points 1 year ago

Not explicitly, no. It's just a red flag that if you engage with this person it will be unproductive and frustrating.

Conservatives wish death on pretty much all liberal politicians every now and then, sometimes on live television, and no one even bats an eye. A handful of leftist internet comments have "ding dong the witch is dead" vibes and you start clutching your pearls.

[-] Stoneykins@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

Mitch is a shitty traitor.

[-] Stoneykins@lemmy.one 10 points 1 year ago

"both sides" is the fastest giveaway of a bad faith troll lately. At least the unapologetic conservatives don't pretend to take the moral high ground

[-] Stoneykins@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago

I don't see how that addresses any of what I said. If anything this seems like this would mean the subreddits that blocked people with no karma weren't even doing it to block trolls, just new users.

I didn't care about my karma or any specific persons, I like to get into arguments about stuff and that is how you get downvoted. I just don't like the behaviour a karma system motivated.

[-] Stoneykins@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There were many subreddits that did not allow participation unless someone had a karma over a certain threshold. For many of them the threshold was pretty low, only meant to stop brand new accounts and trolls, but still.

Additionally, the "people who farmed it" often did so because a reddit account with a high karma score was literally worth money to adspammers and people running bots.

The karma system contributed to what made reddit bad.

[-] Stoneykins@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They are talking about karma as a thing you could collect, point totals for all posts added together displayed on your profile. Not the voting mechanism itself.

[-] Stoneykins@lemmy.one 25 points 1 year ago

The most convincing argument that elon does a lot of cocaine is just listening to him speak in a less formal interview.

BUT! I don't think he used to be actually smart, just lucky. Too many people assume "succesful" people had to have done something exceptional to earn it, but 99% of extremely wealthy people acquired that extreme wealth through a simple combination of luck and startup capital (which of course they have because they are lucky).

[-] Stoneykins@lemmy.one 11 points 1 year ago

Doesn't reddit not make money though? Like, if traffic resulted in them making money, I'd agree, but everything I've heard would indicate using reddit with an adblocker literally costs them money.

Exclusively using reddit to protest should be fine IMO, just don't contribute anything that isn't a protest (including voting)

[-] Stoneykins@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Only if you don't clean them in my experience, and they aren't particularly hard to clean. Just give em as good scrub when you clean the shower.

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