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.
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?
It also reveals that alot of people assume others principles. Like some dude tried claiming I was betraying my "libertarian" principles by calling for enforcement of laws he didn't like when I have never been libertarian lmao. Just because I've been around since the beginning doesn't mean I agree with dipshittery like libertarianism
Yeah, its like when they talk about "holding our side accountable" or all these assumptions like everyone here is some form of Libertarian or at best Conservative.
Like I ain't out here proposing to disenfranchise women with 100% sincerity.
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.