Because it is? The term used to mean someone who is honest and upfront about things but toxic assholes co-opted the term as a way to excuse bad behavior.
It's used infrequently enough that it's not as obvious, but it's a huge red flag for someone to say "I'm a straight shooter".
It's throughout many of the comments on this post.
They are demonstrating the reddit post first hand.
Step 1) be toxic and mock people for the choices they make.
Step 2) act superior
Step 3) passive aggressively victim blame
Straight shooters is a wiggle word to say asshole who doesn't care about others feelings.
Only because you are on lemmyworld and the worst parts of it have been defederated because it's a fucking cesspit out there.
To the people who say they don't run into jerks here or they don't understand when people say it's worse than reddit... what rose colored glasses are you wearing? Huge swaths of lemmy are little better than 4chan.
"Oh, you just have to curate your communities."
Stop. Take your superior than thou attitude and just stop. You are part of the problem.
People don't think of labor as being sold? What are wages then? It's literally the price of your labor?
I've never even considered that people don't think of labor as something being sold.
I never misunderstood my position. I don't know how else to convey the idea that some neighbors might be enemies.... yes obviously most are fine. We should give everyone the benefit of the doubt... but the economic system doesn't fix the truly demented.
Hexbear and lemmygrad. Hexbear is one of the largest lemmy instances and it's a pit.