So this guy, he loves blocking a lot of the peeps on the sub on reddit. And this makes discussing in the sub really fucking hard since Reddit prevents you from replying under anything that someone has blocked you posted. If he posts a story ? Can't reply at all to anyone commenting under it. If he replies at the top of a thread and you want to reply to somebody else further down ? Can't reply.
Does that guy really need his safe space that much that he can just disrupt conversation in the sub that much with all his blocking ? And then he has the gal to accuse others of blocking him, when that is a bold faced lie.
Huh. Never took him for the blocking type. Pretty cringe if true. Idk. I'm just of the school of thought that you can just ignore replies.
He started doing it as soon as people started disagreeing in his Pro-Ukraine posts. Lots of peeps who weren't full in "Pro Ukraine, kill Russia", he blocked. Then he accuses them (including me) of being Russian Bots and that somehow, we're the ones blocking him (my block list is empty on reddit, because yeah, no need to block anyone, just stop reading their shit if it gets on your nerves).
The Ukraine situation really revealed a lot of people's colors, especially that good ol' Cold War style "anything Russia bad" root still waits in their brain.
Both the Ukraine and covid situations revealed that it is indeed possible to spit out the red pill.
Yeah that's what gets me the most. You'd think on a sub created after journalists were exposed for doing shoddy work, people would be more skeptical of mass media narratives that pop up overnight with little regards to all the available facts, but here we are.
I wouldn't necessarily say it "revealed people's colors" as much as it exposed some biases and blind spots.
He still seems generally reasonable on most other topics (though I take them with a larger grain of salt now). I don't engage much so apparently haven't triggered his blocking finger.
I use revealing colors because it reveals the shaky foundation the supposed "principles" they hold are built upon, and that they aren't to be trusted as a reasonable person when the time comes.
Its one thing to have biases and blind spots. Its another to be fanatical about it, and dive head first into every type of behavior you spend time criticizing your opponents for.
Its also an example of that one Effect whose name I forget. Whereas once you see how wrong a supposed expert is on one topic that you do know about, how can you trust anything they say on topics you don't know enough about?
Just yesterday, he posted about the baby formula. Started well. Then in a comment later, he said the FDA should have never closed the plant to begin with, at all, over 2 deaths.
He's a bit insane.
The FDA's issue is not reopening the plant when they found out the cases weren't related to Abbott formula and keeping the investigation going even though the evidence was already clear.
Like his Ukraine stance, he seems to lack nuance in his posts.
I don't even remember talking to him before getting blocked. I noticed being blocked after saying something along the lines that Ukraine Bad, Russia Bad, no one should care about their spat.
Lol that's a good problem to have!