Latest federal polling numbers from Mainstreet (thelemmy.club)

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We talked about the possibility of an election, likelyhood and risk in another thread yesterday. With party and leader numbers like these... maybe it's more likely than I thought.

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[-] masterspace@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I generally agree with most of what you said, but there's a balance to be struck when it comes to shitting on things.

If you publish that opinion online, be it a newspaper editorial, or a random comment on a post, you are helping to spread that opinion, and that general emotional sentiment, to others.

And both social media companies, and foreign governments (and some internal actors), all benefit from the population being angry and divided. There is a constant bias towards anger that always need tempering.

Well thought out and reasoned critiques about specific choices are one thing, glib comments made from skimming headlines are another (not saying that's what you do, but that's what a lot of social media users of all kinds, be they Reddit, Lemmy, Facebook, Mastodon etc) do.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Yes.

Us here are just a bunch of people exchanging opinions through fleeting breaks throughout the day so it's normal for people's opinions to be glib oneliners, like they often are in RL. You're right that they reach further and last longer here than RL but I don't think we percieve it that way and I don't think there's a good chance for that changing. It's why you try to say something more thoughtful, so others hopefully see it and think a bit more. I don't think there's a point to feel negative if people don't put as much effort. You do what you can. Others too. Not sure if this comment was useful. 😄