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  • Authoritarian dick sucking.

    Pretending communism is an Authoritarian ideology.

    Edit: found later in the comments that OP is pro forced birth

    So I'm adding prolife genital obsessed religious sickos to the list

  • Point out that neoliberals (so people like UK's Labor, Germany's SPD and America's Democrats) are not your friends and will screw you over at the closest opportunity. Also being critical of US veterans or current servicemen.

    • Also being critical of US veterans or current servicemen.

      As a retired US veteran, I encourage people to actively be critical of us! Most of us aren't heroes just for signing up. Most veterans didn't do anything heroic during their service; heck, I was an IT technician. I spent 20 years mostly sitting at a desk, working on/with computers. Any civilian could do that.

      The hero worship has gotten out of hand. And I get it; the American Public blamed the Vietnam War on the soldiers who served, and we treated them awful, even though it was the govt who started the war and conscripted a lot of service members against their will. It was a bad time.

      But since the Iraq War kicked off, it's like US society decided to make amends by worshipping the ground military members walk on. And it was really awkward for us. We really didn't deserve the praise.

      Another thing to note: people act like the US military is a very conservative-leaning organization. And to an extent, they're right. The Republican Party has latched onto the military and heaped tons of praise and adulation on us, and a lot of conservative people sign up to show their nationalism isn't just words. (Those guys mostly join the Army or Marines)

      But the truth is, the Republican Party only does that to win votes. In public they praise us, but in private, they're constantly cutting our funding, programs, healthcare, pay and benefits, etc. If it weren't for the Democratic Party, the military would be borderline slave jobs. Which is about all the Republican Party see us as; we're just minions to enforce their rules and laws. According to their attempts to gut our military, we don't deserve to live like humans!

      In the years before I retired (~3 years ago), I noticed that the military was leaning pretty heavily to the left. There were still some die-hard nationalists who worshipped the Republican Party and turned a blind eye to their policies that neutered or removed our benefits. But a majority of the people I worked with around the globe seemed to be happier to serve under a Democrat president.

      Sorry, I apparently had a lot of say about this topic. Basically, what I'm trying to say is that veterans are people. Don't treat them like shit, but also don't hero-worship. There are very few of us who actually deserve that title. If you see someone going out in public covered in military swag or bragging about their service... they're probably a piece of shit who did absolutely nothing in the service. They're riding on the high of public adulation and probably shouldn't be given another glance.

      Speaking of... one last quick story. Throughout my 20 years of service, we always had a name we would default to as the "bad example" when doing things. "Sergeant Snuffy pulled this lever and fucked up the processing line; Airman Snuffy mouthed off to the Command Sergeant and got his ass detained; Private Snuffy left his tools out and caused everyone to stay 3 hours late for inventory."

      This "Snuffy" example turns out to be based on a real person, Staff Sergeant Maynard Smith, a WWII Medal of Honor recipient! This is the highest award you can earn in the military, and he earned it in the Air Force, which is notorious for rarely handing that out to anyone!

      Regardless, Sergeant Smith was a complete tool. Disliked by his crew and always getting into trouble with his leadership. Heck, he was serving on KP Duty (kitchen duties) as punishment for being late to a meeting when he was awarded his Medal of Honor. His crew nicknamed him "Snuffy Smith" in honor of the bumbling idiot character in the comic strip "Barney Google and Snuffy Smith." And despite earning our highest award, his legacy, which is still remembered to this day, is for being a total fuck-up.

    • Regime whores get big mad when you shit on their handlers. Since the pedons should be on their team, since they are "good guys"

  • Anything. People around here downvote memes they personally don't like in meme cookies communities and songs they personally don't like in song sharing communities. It seems like all of the types of people that never followed etiquette on Reddit either came here. And the problem is here is so much smaller, so every downvote is more noticeable and affects things more.

    Not having 100% praise for Lemmy and criticizing certain things is a site fire way as well. And if you kick the hornets nest enough in that regard, they'll actually start actively downvoting correct information and upvoting misinformation, as long as it suits the circlejerk.

    If you talk about how someone went through your entire profile and downvoted everything, you guessed it, that results in even more people doing the same thing. And now your stupid innocent comments about your life or hopes and dreams in casual conversation are all sitting at minus points and this whole thing feels like a joke and waste of time, while the people who put you there go "who cares? It's just imaginary internet points."

    And some of these people that I encountered in this, treating people this way and intentionally ruining the experience and fun for them were regular and familiar faces around here. Those familiar faces that people talk about that are so nice to see around here.

    And the fact that there were so many familiar faces makes me wonder about other things too. In the middle of that, I had someone completely baselessly accuse me of being someone else with multiple accounts. Which of course got upvoted by probably the same people that upvoted misinformation on how blocking on Facebook works.

    And that left me wondering about the times I've got a DM warning me that a user I've interacted with is a bot or someone with multiple accounts for nefarious reasons. And I normally believe them. But are they going to be doing this to me now? Is this what the power users around here that act like nice people do to anyone that pisses them off?

    Edit: I bet this will get downvoted too. Not that I can see it from here.

    • I'm one of the "imaginary internet points" people. To the point that I've turned off display of votes. I genuinely have no idea how many votes in either direction my posts or comments get … and don't care. Voting systems are stupid; they never work because they're so easily gamed.

      My feed is set to New by default, not "Top" or "Controversial". I'll sometimes flip it to "Old" if i want the conversational history. That's about it. It doesn't matter to me what J. Random Internet Person thinks of posts. It matters to me what I think about them.

      • Voting systems are stupid; they never work because they're so easily gamed.

        Yeah this is definitely true. Probably more so for smaller platforms too. Blåhaj doesn't have downvotes enabled and you couldn't even if you wanted to (which I basically never do anyway). But after checking out an instance with them enabled for a while, I'm not all that impressed with how they're used around here. They probably get used like that on Reddit too but you barely notice it there.

        And I'm of the camp where yeah, they're imaginary internet points but it's also something built into the platform for a little fun and also to boost quality content. I like upvoting basically everyone that has a decent conversation with me, for example. To me it feels like it's giving just a little extra acknowledgement, like an "I see you". And it's fun. Or should be. I'm a pretty gloomy person but not that cynical. This place is in a weird in between where people want it to be like a '90s forum site but also they want their 'agree' and 'disagree' buttons to mash.

        I dunno, I'm over the event itself but I still have the bad taste in my mouth and a different impression of things and certain people now.

        For what it's worth, even though you don't care lol, you're one of the people that I always enjoy seeing around here. I actually tried checking out your Pixelfed, couldn't figure out how to view it from my instance, wasn't in the mood to look up FAQs and shit, and haven't been back since lol.

    • I hate memes bit i don't downvote. I simply block any meme community i encounter

    • Hello,

      I've been testing Piefed for a bit, it made a lot of progress since last time I used it. Actual blocking is possible there.

      • Nice, and I've been informed that there's a working app for it currently too. I'm all for full blocking, personally. If I feel like I need to block someone, I shouldn't need to justify it or petition admins to ban them, I should be able to just do it and be rid of them in all aspects. And vice versa too, if someone blocks me for whatever reason, I don't want to be left commenting on their content and trying to interact like an idiot, I want to no longer see them. Why should my upvotes and contributions in the comments go to someone that has blocked me?

        I've got a busy next couple of days but as soon as I've got time to play around and get used to new things, I'm definitely gonna try Piefed again and the app, Thunder I think.

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