I'm pretty sure that didn't exist before the internet. To be clear, I mean the shit some rando said on :reddit-logo: you know?
Spending a ton of time dunking is the junk food of being a leftist. It feels like substance but it's not. You could spend your available leftist energy doing real things, but dunking is easier and it's available, plus it feels really good.
You could spend your available leftist energy doing real things
There is very rarely a one-to-one trade off between doing on-the-ground activism and pissing into the wind on a website.
Case in point, I'm posting this from my office on my boss's dime.
Excuse me, I think you are supposed to get consent before dropping your mental load onto us
Edit:
Hey, I’m so glad you reached out. I’m actually at capacity dealing with the emotional Labour of being a Zionist, so I don’t think I can hold appropriate space for you at this time.
Lenin wrote entire books dunking on Kautsky. A lot of Marx's writings directly quote Max Stirner plus he'd have fueds with Herbert Spencer in the newspapers.
Dunking isn't new. There's Roman grafitti talking shit on local public figures. I think Dante put a judge he didn't like in hell?
I made sure to mention that it's about reddit randos and not dunking in general
Oh I see I see, sorry
Yeah I have no idea. I had the misfortune to be on usenet way back before reddit existed and they were always fighting over something someone said in some other thread.
As I recall, Dante put many people he didn't like in hell. A lot of the poem was Dante weighing in on societal / political issues of the time, such as the developing religious schism between the Guelphs and the Ghibellines. He even did this thing where he would put something like, "This Spot is Reserved for ______" for people he thought would go to Hell, but were still alive.
yeah. the internet is a great tool for feeling smarter and better than other people while achieving absolutely nothing.
Hexer: "Hey, you!"
Stranger: "Yes?"
Hexer: "Fuck you!"
Stranger: "What?"
Hexer: "For that thing you said yesterday!"
Stranger: "Are you a crazy person?"
Hexer: "Don't lie. You know what I'm talking about."
Browsing this site has been a much better experience since I unsuscribed from the_dunk_tank
yeah i don't understand why people post that garbage. like, who cares? there's commenter on reddit who was stupid? WOWWW
I started using :reddit-logo: almost immediately after graduating high school so I had a stream of shitty takes beforehand
You can just unsub from the dunk tank.
Conversely, we cannot unsubscribe from c/LinuxEvangelism...
Weird how we can't unsubscribe from c/DeathToAmerica or c/China or other things of interest to many leftists either
I was complaining about Linux posts. Are you complaining about Death-to-America posts? About China posts?
And I was simultaneously mocking complaints about a place you can literally unsubscribe from.
I actually made the post for us to talk about the whole dunking thing not complain because as you said I can just unsubscribe
What's to discuss? People enjoy different content. And people also come and go; it's hardly all the same people as werehere a year ago. You make a good point about reddit randoms, frankly I skip those posts, especially because they're usually paragraphs long and :bugs-no: to that. But I also don't think I see that many such posts, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
But known people from Twitter or online or media? Give me that slop!
Don't get me wrong---one shouldn't unsubscribe! But one can.
Yeah I don't really understand the appeal of the dunk tank. I don't give a fuck what new dumb shit some dumb lib said. They're a dumb lib, of course they're gonna say dumb shit. No point getting mad about it
One of the reasons shitredditsays dropped off was because their posters got burnt out from reading :reddit-logo: takes. It can be exhausting if you let it
What was SRS like from the inside? I have no idea what they talked about, dunked on, or whatever, I just knew that people would sometimes reference being brigaded by them.
It was honestly a lot like the old chapo sub, and there certainly were a lot of crossover posters. Much less communist, much more feminist. Since their focus was almost entirely on awful :reddit-logo: posts, the vibes were definitely angrier. I'm glad I found it when I did, because I was young and impressionable and it helped me realise that, hey, some of the "just jokes" on reddit weren't just jokes
Oh and srs got brigaded constantly, like way more than cth in its prime. They had a super active mod team and a culture of heckling the chuds that let them deal with it. It made them such a good boogeyman for the rest of reddit since they couldn't match their posting abilities
