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I try to respond to every genuine engagement. I block trolls, contrarians, and provocateurs because life is too short.

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  • pulsewidthtoMicroblog Memeswhat's the matter with the nyt recently?
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    16 hours ago

    The NYT haven’t changed. They’ve been aligned with corporate greed and neo-conservative goals and attitudes for at least 40 years. Yes you can find individual articles that don’t, but editorially they always have.

    Though they always presented their image as ‘social liberal progressive attitudes’ and ‘fiscal responsibility with social support’, if you look at their actual reporting track record they’ve helped manufacture consent for almost every US war of the last 30+ years, and have consistently sided with the desires of whatever government is currently in power and fiscal conservative attitudes throughout.


  • pulsewidthtoLate Stage CapitalismAmong other things
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    18 hours ago

    Their freedom always boils down to I’m allowed the freedom to make terrible choices, whereas your pussy government tries to care for and protect your community. Be it gun access, their healthcare system, food safety, gambling regulation, medical programs, pollution laws… (this list in almost infinite).

    By their yardstick, the most freedom-loving countries in the world are just those where money buys you access and permission to everything - Somalia, Sudan, Cameroon, Cambodia, North Korea, Russia… you know… the same places they call shitholes.

    One day they’ll maybe figure out collectively that they have been had by the wealthy, who advertise and campaign to trick them into voting against taxation and regulation and protections that benefit them and their whole community, but it won’t be anytime soon.


  • pulsewidthto Memes of Production@quokk.ausocialism is food
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    3 days ago

    In my experience arguing with older Murdoch/con-media brainwashed relatives that look similar to this caricature… logical appeals don’t help, and explaining why their position is hypocricritical (as in this accurate meme), just inflames them and they flip through there ‘angry index’ of whataboutisms to pivot to, like their media talking heads do - one angry subject to the next.

    Everyone that disagrees with them feels like a personal attack because their positions are held by feelings of safety, fear, and the perceived comfort of never having to change. Disagreement attacks that core.

    TLDR; meme funny, don’t try this IRL.


  • Yeah just block em dude. I enjoy your comments. Including this one.

    There’s a fair percentage of people I’d say are mentally ill or at least like you say… Seem to be constantly experiencing the worst day of their lives here. I just block them and move on with life - I’m not their therapist.

    My experience of Lemmy after blocking just 40 or so users, (and shit communities that I don’t want to see posts from) has changed greatly for the positive. Don’t let them drag you down, there’s plenty of room here for reasonable opinions.