If you ever find yourself playing devil's advocate, you have become a debate bro. Don't play devil's advocate. Don't be a debate bro.
Playing devil's advocate has a time and place and needs prenegotiated consent. If you are a group debating a topic and how to speak about it to others it can make sense to have one of you for a set time take over that role so that you can gather efficiently talking points and see what dynamics develop.
Besides that it should have virtually no place in our world. If you do debate bro leftists or groups you are involved in without their consent you are abusing the social coherence and the other people's time. So only do it if you try to sabotage a group, say work meetings or if you are drafted to an imperialist army.
So only do it if you try to sabotage a group, say work meetings or if you are drafted to an imperialist army.
I, for one, cannot wait to go full CIA on a buncha libs right before we get sent off to the camps.
Bro I engage with capitalists 40 hours a week and that's more than enough for me. It's still not fun and they're still doing imperialism and they're still ruining the environment.
This is from the orange reddit clone talking about Lemmy in its dev stage - IIRC, this thread is also where one of the hexbear taglines about a guy who saw spooky scary communist imagery and immediately closed it comes from
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28453165
Is where that fateful comment that was immortalized in our taglines is located, as well as the comment in the OP
I liked it but then I went to the Server's page and saw it's filled with Communist symbols, got terrified and closed it :(
:michael-laugh: :data-laughing:
I cant believe all these people self-selected to hang out in a reddit clone with 10 times more pedantry, solipsism and JAQing off. Who would have thought that HackerNews would become a haven to thousands of wannabe Stephenson protagonists? I can smell the smugness and imported beer from here.
This came off as snarky but its not directed towards you
He's goddamn right. I don't want to debate capitalists, I want to bite their throats out for torturing humanity
Who started up this debate thing? What is their name? I promise I only want to talk.
Of course, this devil's advocacy almost certainly was just "Have you considered that we need a mix of socialism and capitalism? Both systems are flawed. If you go all the way in Socialism, that's how you get Stalin." and all the other stupid shit we've all heard 1000 times.
Well considering on how humans are attracted to assholes, hence why the right is so popular. I'm afraid being an asshole is literally the only way to get through with humans.
considering on how humans are attracted to assholes, hence why the right is so popular
Another literally false statement based on misunderstandings of human nature
What is with people and this debate worship nonsense? What am I even gonna debate a capitalist about? Do human lives matter more than profit? Climb on down outta that Ivory Tower not everything has to be a debate.
