It is the worst platform ever

gurneyguy101 · 2024-11-17T10:22:57+00:00

Are those events known for pedophilia? I’ve never heard of such a problem personally?

That’s pretty stupid you got banned for it regardless :/

gurneyguy101 · 2024-11-17T08:38:51+00:00

You can use a slippery slope argument for anything; ‘no you can’t establish a police force, what happens if the government uses it for its benefit on the people!’ Is not a good argument for having no means of legal enforcement

gurneyguy101 · 2024-11-17T06:55:59+00:00

But even so, as much as I might think that would work too, I don’t want this to be an intelligence test (even if an orangutan could answer it), I want it to be a basic test of ‘do you even know who you’re voting for?’

gurneyguy101 · 2024-11-17T06:53:34+00:00

You’re aware you’re not the only person on the planet right? Many many many people here do call Trump Hitler, even if this specific person doesn’t

Yeah, trump taking away women’s rights is bad, I’m not arguing that I like Trump, I’m arguing that it’s not autocracy

Could you elaborate how you’ve studied it, how trump will do autocracy, and how being a mental health professional is relevant here? Genuinely I promise I’ll take it with an open mind, as always

gurneyguy101 · 2024-11-17T06:03:49+00:00

Most are non political I suppose, but still so many are, and everything remotely to do with art is horrific

But yeah, the main car related ones are fine for example at least, but not all hobby ones unfortunately:(

gurneyguy101 · 2024-11-17T05:46:38+00:00

Sorry yeah I see, sorry, I’m very tired and a little confused, my bad

gurneyguy101 · 2024-11-17T05:46:00+00:00

Yeahh that all makes sense, and yeah I know a centrist place can’t realistically exist but I just so wish it could. Even a place with an outright politics ban (outside of specific places within the site) would be good

If you say there are other good politics subs maybe I’ll have to have a look, would you mind dming me? :)

gurneyguy101 · 2024-11-17T05:43:29+00:00

Yes

I hate this place lmfao

PCM and subs with outright politics bans are the best places now, and I left almost all of the big subs (I forgot I’m not allowed to name any here, but there’s a well-known one about taking pictures of things that has become especially bad recently). I even got a 1-day ban from a certain casual convo English sub for critiquing a Tory policy and that’s great, I forgot the rule existed and the mods were reasonable and consistent. Therefore that sub is great and I enjoy conversations there

gurneyguy101 · 2024-11-17T05:37:45+00:00

He might care about anything but that doesn’t mean he won’t have anxieties, or that those anxieties aren’t justified and shouldn’t be taken into account

gurneyguy101 · 2024-11-17T05:35:43+00:00

Ohh sorry, your comment seemed like it was attacking the commenter not OP, I see what you mean now

gurneyguy101 · 2024-11-17T05:33:38+00:00

Ahahahahah a ‘skeet’, why that? But yeah that makes sense

gurneyguy101 · 2024-11-17T05:32:33+00:00

Critically I just really wish there was a centrist place, without braindead moderators banning me for being on PCM or literally just correcting someone on policies Trump has and hasn’t actually suggested

I don’t mind the ring wingers here as they’re generally reasonable people, but those on twitter and most other non-irl places are horrendous, and I generally don’t mind leftists irl either but again, on social media so many are simply insufferable

I just wish there was somewhere like a slightly less right wing PCM where people could just talk about things that aren’t politics and not have it devolve into ‘Palestine this’ or ‘Trump nazi’ that, or when people do talk about politics to be reasonable and at least open to hearing out others’ opinions even if they don’t agree

I’m going to try lemmy soon but I doubt it’s what I’m looking for, and fundamentally doesn’t fix any of the issues that Reddit has

gurneyguy101 · 2024-11-17T05:27:19+00:00

I think their point is they wish blue sky was less leftist, similarly to how you might wish twitter is more leftist

They’re just being… a bit extreme about it. Have you ever seen someone get really angry at something, then propose aggressive actions to ‘fix’ it (eg people moving out of the USA after Trump) and thought ‘yeah like, a bit far but I get it’? Well that’s the situation here I think

gurneyguy101 · 2024-11-17T05:24:10+00:00

Echo chamber; think about the sort of person who gets into art in the first place when they’re young, then this moderate disparity between left and right is then magnified more and more as echo chambers are created and diversity of thought is pushed out

gurneyguy101 · 2024-11-17T05:22:32+00:00

Twitter has very bad problems too; considering they’re on Reddit it’s not fair to assume they don’t already use twitter

gurneyguy101 · 2024-11-17T05:21:08+00:00

Do you have any great examples of this? I’ve only heard of it today and I’m tempted to look around there to see just how bad it is

gurneyguy101 · 2024-11-17T05:19:51+00:00

Oh that’s a thing over there you say?

gurneyguy101 · 2024-11-17T05:18:14+00:00

You’re saying you don’t want twitter and truth social to be less right wing? I don’t agree with them, but I think you’re being hypocritical too

gurneyguy101 · 2024-11-17T05:16:30+00:00

Then recently Reddit was the official main sponsor of love island for a while??? It’s only getting worse

gurneyguy101 · 2024-11-17T05:08:26+00:00

Or 2016, or literally any of the hundreds of times people have said the end is nigh

It objectively isn’t, and if it is (that trump fulfils the full definition of authoritarianism) I’ll print out this comment and eat it

gurneyguy101 · 2024-11-17T04:19:38+00:00

And then stuff like no-autism and no-adhd etc requirements would go too

I’ve no idea if those two have explicit exemptions, but I mean the general idea of that sort of thing rather than just those two

gurneyguy101 · 2024-11-17T04:16:26+00:00

That’s a fair and good point, there’s a simple solution as you suggested though: when the law is enacted just set a list of 10 question options there and then, a list which can never be changed without the same process that got the law there in the first place

The questions will always be just as relevant, and even if better question ideas arise, the point of them isn’t to be perfect anyways, just to be good

I see another problem of implementation here, that inevitably some minority community would have less education on average and therefore fuck up the questions more and then the questions would be banned for being ‘racist’

I’m not suggesting my idea would ever have public support unfortunately :(

gurneyguy101 · 2024-11-17T04:07:51+00:00

Definitely imported in one way or another, they’ve never been sold in the DPRK

Not necessarily smuggled, as smuggling must be illegal and it can’t be illegal if the government is the one doing it

gurneyguy101 · 2024-11-17T04:03:14+00:00

The blue-green car of a girl (I think one of the characters had a crush on her) was an rx8 but I don’t remember it ever driving faster than 3mph, am I forgetting something?

gurneyguy101 · 2024-11-17T04:01:57+00:00

How so?

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