Imagine what he'll do if his friends had political or religious points of view that he disagreed with.....
I know it's tired but...projection! Pretty much all studies (I know, I know) agree that liberals/leftists/progressives are less tolerant toward opposing views than right/conservatives.
Also, it's ironic, given that even in the post they're mocking, his friends left him, not vice versa. It's high level mental gymnastics to turn it around and make him the intolerant one.
Yeah I found it fascinating reading through that, their entire load of comments was made on a massive assumption. I can tell you now when it comes to discord groups especially I've ranted about them before. I hung out with them fine for awhile, even with disagreements because I know I'm not that bad, again I point at myself as the self-aware nerd.
What happens is it's usually the main people in the group who decide to start sperging out or maybe there's some kind of argument. Then because they're more fucking awkward than I'll ever be they start resorting to mod privileges if you stick up for yourself and you realise there's no way to even reason with them because they can't handle it. I've had people who met me round the back so to speak after through DMs and they've confirmed they stopped hanging out with that group because the main people stopped being fun to hang out with and got really intolerant.
Yes, massive projection on their part, but they would say the exact same thing about anyone different from them. Thankfully I was never daft enough to enter into a group with mods that were outright ban happy aside from ones that had clearly been hijacked but I still fucking left and stopped talking because they know what they did. It's a shame as well because these were people I had hung out with for a good while and was on VC quite regularly, but yeah, fuck it.
We all know this about them, but I'm just posting anyway there's probably a lot of detail those shit heads are likely missing. I feel sorry for anyone who's got some actual problems that's had to come across them. Discord groups can work, but they often end up being a special kind of internet cancer based on in-group favouritism at the best of times and it's horrible. It's like fucking mean girls on steroids depending on who it is.
Edit: Also look at that sub's subscriber count in comparison, I love how I can always look at data and numbers with regards to this sort of thing, it's like looking at women's accounts of dating and loling at their gaslighting
Obviously we have the same system here, but what I dislike about reddit, that it's a huge echo chamber. The big difference is the censorship, which proves that it's a controlled environment.
Meanwhile you can't even write the word "trans" in the comments of /r/KotakuInAction2.
If you want to know what the truth is, always look at what you are not allowed to talk about.
It's ironic how most upvoted comments there talk about "reflect and reexamine your own views".
The thing is I totally get where you're coming from, but when you study how reddit really is and I mean actually look into it deeply you'll discover it's so much worse than simple 'censorship'. Censorship would at least be fairly honest and straightforward compared to what redditors do on a daily basis to people. The levels of fakery, psychopathic behaviour, astroturfing, psyops and power modding is off the charts and that's just the stuff that's been documented.
I once posted that child porn probably isn't the worse thing that these guys have done and another person on here had to agree with me on that because we both understood how bad they fucking are. The cuddly hugbox posting really is a front to a lot of borderline or actual criminal behaviour.
The levels of fakery, psychopathic behaviour, astroturfing, psyops and power modding is off the charts and that's just the stuff that's been documented.
I would argue that it's a typical internet behavior. I'm a bit older, still remembering forums era. It was all the same, people don't change.
Reddit stands out to me as an even bigger echo chamber, because of the downvoting system.
If you don't agree with the majority, your comment/post will be rendered invisible by downvotes. It has also much greater bearing on impressionable minds of young people.
You get rewarded with points for "good behavior" and punished for "bad behavior".
And now with censorship that comes from above (actual reddit admins), we can't even have our own communities, where you don't get downvoted automatically to speak slightly negative about certain topics.
Forums could at least do what they wanted but reddit has a sitewide iron fist on every discussion. There's also the bots.
Not sure why they copied the voting system for this platform. I can only imagine scored wants to implement their own flavor of social control, even if it's "better" than reddits.
It's when a game includes people other than white cishet males or women who represent the fantasies of white cishet males.
These people hate being reminded that people who are different than them exist.
This one is further down the list but this is why debating these people is utterly pointless and why I tell conservatives especially to shut up expecting me to tolerate them. Their whole shtick in that thread is just inverting everything, being NPCs about it and then being proud of it.
Yeah, I have no sympathy for anyone in that subreddit. Those people basically cannot complete a thought without thinking "woke" and crying about some non-issue. They are all way too lost in the g*mer sauce.
And then people like this person wonder why they can't get friends to play with them. They are unbelievably grating individuals, and they're too wrapped up in their delusion to realize it.
I tell people to look at reddit even if it pisses them off for a reason, another gem.
These people get indoctrinated into these beliefs, to be honest. They truly believe that LGBT people are evil predators because of the content they consume.
I do feel like they are victims of the content-creating grifters that spread these messages for a paycheck.
Yes damn those evil content creators for pointing out that predators within the LGBT community are using that label to hide their actions and these people defend them because they're morons. Thankfully, this rhetoric falls apart to anyone with a brain once they start going into details and you realise what they're actually like.
I need to not keep reading those comments but I find it fascinating in spite of myself. They really don't understand that there is a wider world outside of their reddit and discord groups, yet they're the ones who are socially well adjusted individuals lol fuck me. At least I don't fucking pretend about what I am.
I know it's tired but...projection! Pretty much all studies (I know, I know) agree that liberals/leftists/progressives are less tolerant toward opposing views than right/conservatives.
Also, it's ironic, given that even in the post they're mocking, his friends left him, not vice versa. It's high level mental gymnastics to turn it around and make him the intolerant one.
Yeah I found it fascinating reading through that, their entire load of comments was made on a massive assumption. I can tell you now when it comes to discord groups especially I've ranted about them before. I hung out with them fine for awhile, even with disagreements because I know I'm not that bad, again I point at myself as the self-aware nerd.
What happens is it's usually the main people in the group who decide to start sperging out or maybe there's some kind of argument. Then because they're more fucking awkward than I'll ever be they start resorting to mod privileges if you stick up for yourself and you realise there's no way to even reason with them because they can't handle it. I've had people who met me round the back so to speak after through DMs and they've confirmed they stopped hanging out with that group because the main people stopped being fun to hang out with and got really intolerant.
Yes, massive projection on their part, but they would say the exact same thing about anyone different from them. Thankfully I was never daft enough to enter into a group with mods that were outright ban happy aside from ones that had clearly been hijacked but I still fucking left and stopped talking because they know what they did. It's a shame as well because these were people I had hung out with for a good while and was on VC quite regularly, but yeah, fuck it.
We all know this about them, but I'm just posting anyway there's probably a lot of detail those shit heads are likely missing. I feel sorry for anyone who's got some actual problems that's had to come across them. Discord groups can work, but they often end up being a special kind of internet cancer based on in-group favouritism at the best of times and it's horrible. It's like fucking mean girls on steroids depending on who it is.
Edit: Also look at that sub's subscriber count in comparison, I love how I can always look at data and numbers with regards to this sort of thing, it's like looking at women's accounts of dating and loling at their gaslighting
But muh paradox of tolerance.
Not to worry, the sub itself had its own moments and for some reason r/facepalm showed up to enjoy it too.
Lots of people with their thoughts on a matter which doesn't seem to be too important to me - but it's their thoughts and they're sharing them.
Archives here for any lolcow collectors to use elsewhere should they need to.
Obviously we have the same system here, but what I dislike about reddit, that it's a huge echo chamber. The big difference is the censorship, which proves that it's a controlled environment.
Meanwhile you can't even write the word "trans" in the comments of /r/KotakuInAction2.
If you want to know what the truth is, always look at what you are not allowed to talk about.
It's ironic how most upvoted comments there talk about "reflect and reexamine your own views".
The thing is I totally get where you're coming from, but when you study how reddit really is and I mean actually look into it deeply you'll discover it's so much worse than simple 'censorship'. Censorship would at least be fairly honest and straightforward compared to what redditors do on a daily basis to people. The levels of fakery, psychopathic behaviour, astroturfing, psyops and power modding is off the charts and that's just the stuff that's been documented.
I once posted that child porn probably isn't the worse thing that these guys have done and another person on here had to agree with me on that because we both understood how bad they fucking are. The cuddly hugbox posting really is a front to a lot of borderline or actual criminal behaviour.
I would argue that it's a typical internet behavior. I'm a bit older, still remembering forums era. It was all the same, people don't change.
Reddit stands out to me as an even bigger echo chamber, because of the downvoting system.
If you don't agree with the majority, your comment/post will be rendered invisible by downvotes. It has also much greater bearing on impressionable minds of young people.
You get rewarded with points for "good behavior" and punished for "bad behavior".
And now with censorship that comes from above (actual reddit admins), we can't even have our own communities, where you don't get downvoted automatically to speak slightly negative about certain topics.
Forums could at least do what they wanted but reddit has a sitewide iron fist on every discussion. There's also the bots.
Not sure why they copied the voting system for this platform. I can only imagine scored wants to implement their own flavor of social control, even if it's "better" than reddits.
At no point do they ask if they're the baddies
Anybody that does reach that level of realization finds themselves banned within a week lol
This one is further down the list but this is why debating these people is utterly pointless and why I tell conservatives especially to shut up expecting me to tolerate them. Their whole shtick in that thread is just inverting everything, being NPCs about it and then being proud of it.
I tell people to look at reddit even if it pisses them off for a reason, another gem.
Yes damn those evil content creators for pointing out that predators within the LGBT community are using that label to hide their actions and these people defend them because they're morons. Thankfully, this rhetoric falls apart to anyone with a brain once they start going into details and you realise what they're actually like.
I need to not keep reading those comments but I find it fascinating in spite of myself. They really don't understand that there is a wider world outside of their reddit and discord groups, yet they're the ones who are socially well adjusted individuals lol fuck me. At least I don't fucking pretend about what I am.