[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

Not what I would call debunked. They pointed out the nothingburger of the lot as a nothingburger, and then for the hard to explain ones they just had possible guesses, and only commented on the videos themselves and accounted for none of the reported contexts of the videos. They basically contributed by talking about lenses and then saying they don't know what is in the videos.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It is one of those "stop doing x" memes that are usually some blend of tongue-in-cheek and outright surrealism, and they always end in "they played us for absolute fools". Here is an older example of the meme:

Or if thats not the part that confused you, binary genders would be just two genders with no variations or differences in the gender of any two men, or any two women. It is a perspective that is antithetical to progressive/modern understanding of gender in culture, and the trans community generally opposes it. Trans communities usually prefer the idea of a gender spectrum, where masculine and feminine are the opposite ends of a gradient, but even that can recieve criticism for excluding Agender people.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Not explicitly, no. It's just a red flag that if you engage with this person it will be unproductive and frustrating.

Conservatives wish death on pretty much all liberal politicians every now and then, sometimes on live television, and no one even bats an eye. A handful of leftist internet comments have "ding dong the witch is dead" vibes and you start clutching your pearls.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

I don't see how that addresses any of what I said. If anything this seems like this would mean the subreddits that blocked people with no karma weren't even doing it to block trolls, just new users.

I didn't care about my karma or any specific persons, I like to get into arguments about stuff and that is how you get downvoted. I just don't like the behaviour a karma system motivated.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There were many subreddits that did not allow participation unless someone had a karma over a certain threshold. For many of them the threshold was pretty low, only meant to stop brand new accounts and trolls, but still.

Additionally, the "people who farmed it" often did so because a reddit account with a high karma score was literally worth money to adspammers and people running bots.

The karma system contributed to what made reddit bad.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Reading arguments about these concepts while many people completely disagree what their definitions are feels like treading water waiting to exhaust myself and drown.

Maybe the point is the policies and anyone who argues about words is part of the problem.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

It's rainbow capitalism, sure, but if someone is going to make money selling rainbow cans with alcohol in them, at least this is outside of pride month and owned by an actual gay person. It's more genuine than rainbow cans of bud light, at least.

And the more successful Gay Water is, the more this can be an easy response to that dumbass "go woke go broke" shit.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

It's kinda meta and more than a little dumb. The "joke" of the subway meme is to have the text have nothing to do with subway, and to show obvious evidence of lots of edits and compression, like there was a back-and-forth argument. Idk why.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

I hate the phrase "people want to work"

Only in the twisted context we act like is default is it true.

People want to have good food, socialize, play, and be comfortable. We work to make those things happen. Some people are lucky enough to make money doing something they already enjoy somewhat, but that isn't common or something that can be expected. 90% of people, at least, if given the option to do whatever they like and still have their needs met, would not choose to "work" in the way that we do now.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

Owners are owners. I can't have too much sympathy if a group of disenfranchised people, who have never had the opportunity to own anything, don't distinguish between hyper capitalists and regular vanilla capitalists. Both are pieces of the system that denies people the value of their labor.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

No, you don't understand, batman is rich so he is allowed to use violence.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Didn't they just start that "ad-sharing" thing? This really emphasizes that they are just trying to bribe content creators to drive traffic to the website.

I need some popcorn for when they panic and shut that down.

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