Silentiea

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There's not a lot most people could do if the USA decided to impose the entire might of their military and economic power.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So do you prefer venmo, or ...?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I was under the impression that limbs "falling asleep" was more of a nerve thing and not a circulation thing. Is that not true?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I'm with you. I wouldn't think it was happening until it already happened.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Disagreeing is fine, but fallacious arguments aren't. I feel it's important to be able to understand why you believe what you do, or at least not to expect others to agree with you if you can't. Fallacious arguments are not good reasons to believe something, and outright false ones are even worse.

Holding an opinion I disagree with is fine, it's when you tell me my opinion is wrong and offer only bad reasoning to convince me that it's a problem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It's bad because of the, like, stalking/prodding people until they engage part of it. Just like JAQing, it starts with a pretense of doing no wrong. This means sometimes it's possible to accuse someone of it when they're acting in good faith because what they said closely resembles others who have acted in bad faith.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think in my mind trolling has to be perpetrated in bad faith, i.e. your stated intentions and actual intentions are at least different and quite possibly contrary. Doesn't sound like you were trolling.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I guess. I can take a joke pretty well, even when I don't think it's funny, so other kinds of trolling are just pretty whatever to me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That tracks, I suppose. Kinda makes me want to help somehow...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Some people just want to watch the world burn.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Trolls are just bullies, I guess.

I guess that's the root of it. I don't really understand the mentality of bullies.

Like, the kid who gets picked on and stays picking on the smaller kids when he gets bigger because his home life sucks and that's just always the way it's been for him... I maybe get it, but I don't think anyone thinks that's a good way to be, and they can stop once they start interacting with a better social group and see how it can be better. Right?

Is it really just that but online, or what have you? Idgi

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Oh, or "just asking questions" and sealioning. I'd pretty much universally consider those to be trolling.

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