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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

"Why can't everyone else just hate the same things I hate!?"

Imagine being this worked up about a webcomic, shitty or otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Also "this worked up", lol.

Just curious, exactly how worked up do you think a person must be to undertake the Herculean effort of making a drive-by Lemmy comment?

Yes clearly this is consuming the whole of my being.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

I mean, you replied twice to my comment, to let me know you weren't worked up, so....

Also stating

passivity in the face of decline has always been the preferable option. Protecting our sacred decorum is so much more important than maintaining a critical eye and standards

makes me think you're taking it pretty damn seriously lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (3 children)

Yeah boredom on a slow day at work can't exist.

And my level of investment automatically invalidates any point I make right? Because that's how discussions work, discredit and invalidate the arguer rather than the argument.

Cool interaction.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

These people want Lemmy to be Reddit and don't understand why that's a problem. You are quite literally pissing in the chud winds. I upvoted you, but I do think you're wasting your time outside of your initial comment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

So maybe consider channeling that boredom into something productive instead of tearing down something you don't like, that has zero tangible impact on your life.

Anyway, you're right this is not a great interaction, so take 'er easy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

And my level of investment automatically invalidates any point I make right?

You’re acting like their response was ever intended to be a thorough breakdown of your argument and why it’s wrong lol.

All they said was an exaggerated paraphrase of your comment for comedic effect and then wondered how you could get so worked up over this.

Yeah boredom on a slow day at work can't exist.

I totally understand this. Putting way more effort into a comment than I need to because of a slow day at work is exactly what I’m doing rn lol.

But that’s not what’s indicative of you getting worked up. It’s the defensiveness and comments that read as bitterly aggressive.

I'll take my downvotes, but while I agree with the sentiment in this particular comic I have no fucking interest in seeing shitty pizzacake and her no-punchline comics or her army of sycophants here on Lemmy.

I will never understand why some of you insist on bringing the garbage we left Reddit to escape over here to Lemmy. Let pizzacake have her tiny window of microcelebrity on reddit and please spare the rest of us this bullshit.

I’ll raise you one better and do a revision of your original comment.

I’ll take my downvotes… wait no, I probably shouldn’t start a comment off like this because it only shows I’m bitter that people don’t agree with me, let me start again.

While I disagree with the sentiment of @[email protected]’s original comment, I do think that there’s one thing we should be not be bringing over from Reddit. Gatekeeping.

I will never understand why some of you insist on bringing the garbage we left Reddit to escape over here to Lemmy. Let holier-than-thou gatekeeping stay on Reddit. Most if not all of us moved to this platform for its freedom from ads, algorithm manipulations and for more meaningful curation of our online interactions.

We should want this for all people, and that includes the people who post stuff we don’t like. Those people aren’t ruining Lemmy, they’re keeping it diverse, and exercising their right to use a platform that isn’t controlled by a company who is selling their data and manipulating their world view in the interest of those who care about nothing more than consolidating more wealth and power, at the expense of their users. In some cases at the expense of geopolitical stability and people’s actual lives.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Your sentiment isn't different just because you couch it in decorum. I've played that game long enough, I'm over it. You are very good at it though, kudos.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 hours ago

Yeah, passivity in the face of decline has always been the preferable option. Protecting our sacred decorum is so much more important than maintaining a critical eye and standards. Great take.