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Cake day: September 6th, 2023

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  • People don’t want to learn or debate anything. They form an opinion and from that point on stop giving a shit. It’s no surprise things end up like this. Too many people are seriously close-minded and ignorant about things, yet their opinion is allowed to equally weighted to another who has put serious effort and thought into their decision. The way of thinking at large is just wrong. People are very short-sighted and easily fall for appeals to emotion instead of taking a second to think rationally. Voting Tory is reprehensible.










  • It’s not a conspiracy, and it is present across all social media platforms. There is selective enforcement of rules and moderation and now many companies push ‘engaging’ content, which basically means pressing out and promoting ‘safe’ content that is easily agreeable or controversial to increase user time so more ads are seen.

    On Reddit, it is very similar. Somebody can say something insane, but it is ‘just an opinion’ meanwhile you call them an idiot, and you get banned by admins. If you even suggest anything ‘extreme’ you are also getting site banned. It just turns everything into a hive-mind which is dominated by liberals. The fact anyone thinks it is a ‘left-wing’ platform shows how dumb people are. It’s very clear that it is made to drive engagement and show ads to maximise income. These social media companies aren’t interested in free speech or fairness. It actively harms genuine engagement because most people just won’t even post or comment if they know it is risking a ban or downvote train where they get shit on. It’s no surprise the platform is now infested with bots and reposts.






  • I agree with the first point, and I think if they want to promote secularism (which is good) they should go about it by educating people in philosophy and logical reasoning as an additional class. Although, I still feel saying ‘practice their parents’ faith’ is problematic. I don’t think any kid should be taught that one religion is true since they can’t really logically think or reason and are very emotionally immature, at least before being a teenager. The indoctrination of young children is very damaging and much harder to get out of. This goes for any ideology, but religion especially since belief is based only on faith. They can wear what they want ofc, but there is also a problem with acting like religion can’t be criticised. However, here the way they went about it is just unproductive.