• spujb@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    231·
    5 months ago

    easy way to get upvotes on here is to call out OP for something the average user thinks is cringe

    doesn’t even have to be true! just do it first and with conviction. “OP troll” “OP is sealion arf arf” “OP spams” “i have OP flagged as blue MAGA do with that what you will” and BOom top comment, no effort no research light work ez w. mods might clap you in 8-10 hours but by then the damage will be done and your game a success.

    reddit brains love to criticize the toxic culture of insta and twitter, then turn around and upvote the first whiff of drama farming they see. 😘🙃

    • Transporter Room 3@startrek.websiteEnglish
      21·
      5 months ago

      no effort no research light work

      Basically 99% of ml/hex posters right there.

      Why bother with effort when spamming emojis, stickers, gifs, and pretending like the world is as simple as “country do bad things, wipe out country, world good again”

      Honestly it feels like listening to a bunch of American 6th graders who have just figured out that the US might not be the knight in shining Armour their history teachers made it out to be.

      • azulavoir@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        191·
        5 months ago

        I think the worst part about hexbear is that they’ve made pronouns in username feel like a red flag

      • barsquid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        5 months ago

        It must be more specific than “country bad,” since they are simultaneously simping for countries that are doing awful things.

        If it is a nominally socialist (with capitalist characteristics) country, they justify whatever atrocities happen. If it is a capitalist economy, everything that country does is evil.

        • Transporter Room 3@startrek.websiteEnglish
          8·
          5 months ago

          simping for countries that are doing awful things.

          You have already fallen into one of the classic blunders! There are no atrocities in [insert famously fascist, oppressive dictatorships here] and any evidence you supply to support your argument is simply mainstream media lies, regardless of the actual source. And if you are the primary source you’re a shill.

      • spujb@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        7·
        5 months ago

        it’s a meaner implication in normal context, like, “here, let me speak to you in the only language you understand, the language of an animal”

      • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        31·
        5 months ago

        I dunno if that’s the case. I just remember seeing the banned symbol on a number of threads that went overboard. Figured that might be a cooler on the whole posting thing.

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      273·
      5 months ago

      One was generically anti-genocide, one was anti-genocide in the context of the Palestinian genocide, namely, critiquing the idea that just because LGBT rights amongst a people being genocided are less than stellar doesn’t mean that genociding them is okay or should be tolerated, even by LGBT folk.

        • Kaboom@reddthat.comEnglish
          415·
          5 months ago

          Theres something that could be described as a genocide, but its in self defense from hamas. I dont know if its porportional or okay, but Israel is trying to genocide Hamas, in response to Hamas trying to genocide Israel.

            • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
              233·
              5 months ago

              And Israel isn’t doing genocide, they are just a little too reckless,

              Literal genocidal rhetoric from Israel’s ruling government as they kill 1 out of every 100 Gazans alive before the start of the war.

              Pretty sure they passed ‘reckless’ a while ago.

              nobody is giving a F about turkey turning Syria and the region Kurdistan into wastelands because they want to eradicate the people there.

              This may come as a shock, but discussions of Turkish attempts at genocide and ethnic cleansing of Kurds are actually quite a big deal amongst people who follow international politics.

                • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
                  133·
                  5 months ago

                  You gotta need to source that claims, and by source i don’t want to see you taking the numbers of the hamas propaganda ministry or their Gaza health ministry, and i also don’t want to see any sources just repeating those numbers.

                  Is the IDF acceptable as a source? The IDF claimed 10-12,000 ‘fighters’ killed and a ~50% civilian casualty ratio - meaning by their own estimates, back in February, they’d killed 20-24,000 Gazans - or about 1-in-100 of the prewar Gazan population.

                  You are also kinda silent about the fact that Israel is literally self defending in a war not started by them.

                  I don’t give a fuck who started it. Genocide still isn’t an acceptable response. There’s a reason why support for Israel started high after Oct 7 and plummeted in the following months. And it’s not because everyone decided antisemitism was going to be the next hot thing.

    • azulavoir@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      93·
      5 months ago

      There are two genocides occurring in Israel/Palestine. IDF against the Palestinian people, Hamas against the Israeli people. The only morally correct position is to be against both, correct? And to support the non-combatant civilians on both sides?