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

my theory is that people don't have a high enough mental bandwidth to be mad at and or care about more than one thing because it's literally just permanent rage bait.

Say what you want about the facts of the situation, but you can't deny that most of the posting is just rage bait.

TL;DR stop being mad about things and care about stuff that's actually important to you. It says your mental bandwidth for more important things, like making funny memes. Instead of just being mad.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I would never deny any claim of genocide, regardless of evidence, because that's against .world's rules. If someone tells me that France is genociding Belgians, I won't question or dispute it because that's against the rules. But the thing is that when a genocide has clear, documented evidence, I just find that a lot more emotionally compelling. I connect more with what's happening when I can see a shitton of photo and video evidence of dead children in the streets than when all I have to go on is random hearsay. I guess you could say I'm a very visual person.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Pics or it didn't happen

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

This comment was reported.

Instead of taking any actions, I'll just ask this:

If the people committing the crime are great at controlling the media, it didn't happen?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Good question.

I sometimes think about the fact that JFK fired Alan Dulles, the guy in charge of assassinating world leaders, months before he was assassinated, and that Dulles was then on the investigative committee into his death. Now, does that prove Dulles was behind the assassination? No. But it does make me go "Hmm." But it is worth noting that if that was what happened, I certainly wouldn't have the means at my disposal to prove it. I wasn't on the investigative committee, after all.

Now, I might choose to believe that's what happened, or that there was a possibility that that's what happened. You might not. That's fine. But what would be less fine would be if I declared anyone who doubted my conjecture and wanted concrete proof to be a redfash who blindly believes anything the US government says and should be banned and excluded from conversation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've decided to write a seperate comment for it, so... what's that?

is it a hospital? a school? what is its purpose and why is it in the dessert

[–] [email protected] -1 points 15 hours ago

Let’s assume that this photo is incontrovertible proof that China built a prison. So what? Would it surprise you to learn that every country has prisons, one country in particular much more than others[1][2]?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

look at upper austria!!! there's no koncentration camp here

oh

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I've brought this up too many times to count and honesty the responses are so cookie cutter that I swear 90% of ml users are Russian trolls/bots.

we should just defederate from ml instances entirely but that would just force them to create .world accounts.

there's no good answer other than don't interact with them. I've blocked lemmy.ml and pretty much block all troll accounts when they pop up.

[–] starman2112 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I really like the troll accounts. Being told that I should be killed in a genocide because I voted is exactly the kind of absurd humor I love

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

And that works perfectly fine. Also, I like Lemmy the size it is now, but people who want to see Lemmy grow into a mainstream platform, are shit out of luck while these folks still roam our midsts

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

unless we grow, in which case they get shunted into like 1% corner hole of the community somewhere that everybody points and laughs at.

Though that requires growing first lmao.

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