I’m working on it. Maybe. Well, one day. Like when other Left of centre, anti trump, anti corpo type folks oppose the things I oppose in correct manner and degree, duh.
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One of the most interesting things I noticed about the fediverse is that while I disagree very heartily on politics with a number of people I rarely disagree with them on everything, even most things really. There’s few enough users that you’re going to see people you have tagged, after they’ve said crazy or insane shit, who then go on to make points you agree with 100%. It’s very odd. I guess it’s why the fediverse feels more genuine to me.
Maybe the other place was just more absolute bots trying to push specific agendas. Cause it seemed way different there.
I have had a very similar observation based on a feature of Voyager that shows you the total upvotes you have given a user, net of downvotes, next to their name.
In addition to what you observe, I’ve also saved myself from being too dismissive or reading a comment more carefully based on that number at least being an indication that I’ve had good interactions with this person in the past.
Ooooh that’s a neat metric to help! I’ve been using an ever expanding system of notes but it’s much more labour intensive than that!
If you have multiple accounts, which most of us probably do for stability reasons, it also aggregates everything across them so vote counts and user tags still show up on brand new accounts.
It’s very very nice.
It’s not odd. They are people.
What’s odd is your expectation that you can have nothing in common with someone you disagree with over one thing.
Meh, I don’t do politics as a joke or as a hobby. I do it because its serious shit that effects peoples lives. And I arrive at my conclusions based of solid evidence, and am willing to change my views to better fit existing evidence. So, that being said…
yeah, if you disagree with me majorly, you are instantly a piece of shit. I am always exclusively pro humanitarian and anti capitalist. If you are arguing against me, you are arguing against human rights and you are arguing for exploitation, and I will not and should not tolerate that. Dont be a piece of shit and i wont treat you you like one, my policies are what they are for a reason and if id seen a better policy then IT would be my policy instead.
Tl;dr Basically, we all have access to the internet. I am educated. You(“some person”, not actually you) are evidently not. Why would you come into a comment thread and knowingly start spreading false information about something you know nothing about?
Humans are born uninformed and the monkey part of our brains tells us that we are right and there is no deeper layer to “obvious” things. I’m just as mad when peoples default state is confidently incorrect but I try not to say anything mean, because hey maybe that was me at some point.
It’s still you today, and will you be in the future.
It just find it hilarious how people take these absolutist stances on issues, as if they are God-like, when they have limited information on them. And if you present them with information that shows their view is limited, they just hate you for it.
The issue is people’s egotistical need to feel superior/correct. And they will not give that up. What’s interesting about actual experts, is they don’t take that approach. They openly discuss the limits of their knowledge and capability… laymen do the exact opposite and emotionally insist that their lack of knowledge makes their understanding more honest… or something.
Hence people will read one comment you make, and make that totally determinate of your entire personality and belief system. Because, they KNOW WHO YOU REALLY ARE. Based on a sentence you randomly typed once on a website…
