Yeah, that’s the way to do it.
There’s a lot that’s pretty funny, but their narratives about being the last bastion of freedom and enlightenment always rubbed me the wrong way
Kind of like how subbreddits and circlejerks often go hand in hand. Or how people here like to talk about how it’s soooooo much better than reddit to the point that, no matter how you sort it, the front page is buried in posts saying the same thing
4chan is a great example of what places that consider free speech an indelible right will turn into
People who have the most vile and hostile opinions will flock there and push most of the reasonable people out
Talking to a band of brainwashed idiots who hide their hate behind a thin veneer pseudointellectualism gets old pretty fast and, as /pol/ likes to point out, those opinions color their view of reality and will seep into discussions of seemingly unrelated topics
Most of us don’t want to have to deconstruct some non-sensical ideology every time we make a statement. They think this means their opinions are some hidden truth that we can’t handle.
The reality is that we can prove them wrong, but they can’t or won’t accept it so we give up on them and go where there are more reasonable people to interact with
Agree and disagree. They put the cart before the horse on this one for sure. If we solve the problem of unaffordable education, then we can talk about forgiving the student loans of people who didn’t get to benefit from the new system
Just forgiving the student loans of a seemingly random block of people makes no sense. The next generation and more importly the universities will expect us to do the same thing later. Guess what that means?
Schools will raise their prices even more and kids will take on even more debt. We can’t just slap a bandaid on this and pat ourselves on the back
This is a perfect representation of what the people I was talking about would say
To go further off topic, LGBT+ folks have my full support but can y’all please stop adding to the acronym?
I thought the ‘q’ was supposed to be an umbrella for everyone else, then there was a plus that’s definitely for that purpose, yet somehow more letters still seem to get added every few years
The next time a boomer co-worker comes up and passive-aggressively asks me, “what’s this new letter I just found,” with a grin like this exposes how dumb the whole community really is, I swear I’m going to throw them out a window
I don’t want to go to prison, please stop adding letters so they will stop talking to me
It was due to their (our) open admission policy.
They wanted a more curated experience, and were concerned that our instances would be full of trolls and bots