If I say, the earth isn’t a perfect sphere and that actually it’s a bit oval/elliptical (or whatever or supposedly is) and then someone answers all pissy and asking me to prove it, do you really think I’m likely to help them understand my position if I find them rude and annoying? Most people that genuinely want to understand others’ point of view don’t say things like “or was that someone else’s fault?” They say things like"can you explain why you think that?" or maybe “I’ve been thinking xyz, why is it you think abc instead?”

“I’ma be disrespectful to you, but I expect you to teach me!”

This ain’t a debate. lol. If you want people to share their knowledge with you, come correct. Most people would be happy to share information. When you act all dishonest it makes no one want to even talk to you unless they agree with you

Fair enough. Dude either deleted their account or blocked me or something. Sucks this sub is dead tho

What’s wrong with being interested in American politics? Why are you being so rude? It looks like their first/only post in this community

Have you/Has anyone seen the r/worldnews subreddit lately? Shit’s wild! Can’t imagine how hard it would be to join/leave that community and learn the truth

Hmm… not bad. I only watched 5ish min, but he seems genuine - that is to say, he realizes he fucked up, not that he’ll actually change anything

More interesting, to me, as someone that had only heard about this from headlines, you can clearly see the mental illness pervasive in his community by looking at the comments and even moreso by looking at the guy’s room. Dude is someone we should pity, not hate - granted I understand influencers having massive platforms, and well influence

Still, I wish we could be more like the Palestinians and Arabs he mentions, that checked on him to see if he was ok, instead of the knee-jerk, quick to react Americans we are, that are ready to pounce on a fallen neighbor enemy and eager to find ways we’re different to further divide ourselves

Yeah, that’s a totally fair and better characterization. I don’t think he’s all that interested in money either

This is how I felt when people that never cared about politics started being interested in Yang. It was impossibly difficult to not judge them too harshly (and honestly to not take it personally when they couldn’t be convinced he was just a selfish grifter)

You’re probably right. I just worry uninformed angry people are ripe for being taken advantage of.

And for sure I totally don’t mean absolutely everyone in either gen - that’s never the case. I guess i just look at my older bro and he looks way beyond capacity (44 w/ a 1+2 yr olds) to expect him to do stuff like read and educate himself. Idk, maybe that’s just not his thing regardless.

I absolutely salute parents out there, doing the whole thing though. I’m still just barely trying to take care of myself

Their motto is literally whatever. It’s unfortunate but I wonder how much they even try to properly inform themselves at this point.

Tbf, many have families and homes that require them to submit themselves fully to the brutal dick of capitalism and relinquish all else, unlike millennials and gen z. Because of that, I’m pretty sure if given the choice, gen x would absolutely prefer to fight to maintain the status quo as they’re fully committed to it - that is to say, many likely believe “this is just the way things are” and things are only bad if you’re lazy or you lose your government-issued bootstraps therefore fundamental change like we’ve never seen before isn’t needed and is actually a radical position to hold.

It’s a bit of a bummer since they have tons of experience and executive function skills later generations seem to lack/struggle with

So do most people, at least speaking for Americans. Ignoring all other context, at least this guy gives a miniscule shit about what his people think/want. That’s just like basic politics

I do have to wonder if he thinks he’s in more danger of losing it all than other contemporary government leaders

The OP? What’s that based on? All their posts are just critical of Israel

That said, given how lemmy works, there’s no real recourse anyway. This is a good, funny post, so I’ll upvote it. Since upvote points aren’t tracked there’s nothing we can really do to tell bad actors apart from people that actually contribute to communities/discussions. If it mattered, I’d maybe downvote but it doesn’t since every post they make ends up being treated individually by the community (unless you track usernames or something and I personally don’t pay for that feature)

You’d have to comment on all their posts if you wanted it to stick, and then if it’s not obvious like here, you’d have to provide reasoning each time. I don’t get it but most people really didn’t like points being added up for some reason

Ahh I get u now. Yeah, that’s totally true

It’s worth realizing some people do not want to be cheered up. My understanding is the misery, for lack of a better word, is more comforting to many as it reminds them of when they were young (or they emulate what they saw around them as children)

Interesting. I thought that was just in movies. lol

Ok, yeah I figured the same thing

I just learned that Rockefeller significantly improved his image by giving away the money he stole from his workers.

Maybe Amazon can just to donate half of the money they don’t pay in taxes to win back most people’s support - hell, maybe even less than that!

That seems kinda fucked up. Why would you do something like that?

I mean, I at least get fucking with people for money. Doing it for fun, not so much

Also, anyone know what they meant with this line?

I still loved my life so I didn’t want to use the Google custom search API.

And who are the good guys?

Are you one of the good guys? Oh shit am I?

lol. Bad guys?

Anyone know if The Finals counts as a “live service” game? It’s free to play and I think it’s fantastic - both the game and the fact it’s free.

I just don’t play games enough to justify the huge asking prices anymore. The last games I paid for were COD MW2 and Cyberpunk and I doubt I’ll ever drop $70+ for a game again, especially when there’s games like splitgate and whatnot that are free (not that I ever tried the new one. lol)