While the [email protected] community has always been a little feisty, the flood of Redditors has turned much of any contentious subject into pure mud slinging. Take the recent post “Ukraine war: Kyiv claims its first victories of counter-offensive”. The discussion featured these insults:
- cia and nafo freaks
- I don’t think the person you’re responding to has the capacity to realize anything except their own delusions
- hasn’t achieved reading comprehension
- tankie
- fascist
- gargling Putin’s cock
- weasels
- So I sincerely ask you to either become a better person or just stfu.
- loonies
- Russian dick train
- willfully obtuse
And that’s just half of the page. Seems like it’s time to have at least some basic civility rules in place before this community is nothing but personal attacks.
This place has been far worse than Reddit, thanks to the t… … slightly left of center people that are the majority here. Things will probably be better if we get more people here, though, since these slightly left of center people are far from the majority in the general populace.
Is “slightly left of center” a euphemism for liberals or actual leftists? All of the vitriol, personal attacks, and hate that I’ve seen here has been liberals and the like attacking actual leftists. The leftists I’ve seen have been attacking ideas, and aren’t aggressive in doing so (calling an idea stupid is not the same as calling the person with the idea stupid). On the other hand, I’ve seen liberals attacking people (not ideas), being aggressive (“get fucked” etc), advocating for creating and re-inforcing an echo chamber (you know seeing dissenting opinions is a good thing, right?), trying to push people out of an existing space that they founded, and all-around not having meaningful discussion.
There seems to be something causing people to get irrationably angry and go on the attack when confronted with something that questions their beliefs. It doesn’t make sense to me. What causes the aggression? Ego?
There is one dipshit who keeps taking a “pro-Russia” line in the shittiest most obnoxious way IMO. I have my own analysis of the conflict that doesn’t involve unilaterally backing Ukraine, but that person really mucks it up so I can’t really share anything about it. Not sure if they are “leftist” but whatever.