My practical answer would be, of course, right wing shit, period. It wouldn't stop them but might slow their spread.

My fun/funny/unserious answer would be commission an algorithm to monitor Reddit so I don't have to that keeps track of exceedingly popular passive-aggressive and smug ways to start and end sentences and takes the top percentiles of them and makes them the shockers of the week. It would make Lemmyverse liberals a lot less redundant as a side effect, too. sicko-wistful

smuglord "Umm, I'm sorry, honestly, but let's be honest here. It's almost as if..."

unlimited-power

wojak-nooo "Wow, vitriol much?"

unlimited-power

  • Magician [he/him, they/them]
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    1 year ago

    I would just shock people when they're lying online. That's it.

    They can do it to people in person, but no more sock puppets or disingenuous BS on the internet. No more people taking credit or talking about their cousin who for real died from a mote of fentanyl dust.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      morshupls "As a (insert appropriated LGBTQIA+/black/leftist-as-they-come identity here), the problem is other (LGBTQIA+/black/leftists)..."

      unlimited-power

      • Magician [he/him, they/them]
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        1 year ago

        I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of debate bros suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced

    • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      As an ND can I petition to extend this policy IRL too because I'm tired of literally every social interaction being confusing and exhausting

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      The stupidest smuggest Reddity game of all gets the prize it deserves. unlimited-power

  • buh [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    “Deg#nerate”

    Nobody with good opinions uses that word

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      But based ironic just-a-joke-unless genocide enjoyer Rick Sanchez said that it was soypoint-1 removed for anyone to ask him not to say something is removed. soypoint-2

      EDIT: Oh, another removed word. Fuck that word too.

    • WittyProfileName2 [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      "But... but what if I want to talk about the tendency of DNA to contain redundant sequences?"

      unlimited-power

  • muddi [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    The "human nature" argument. Idk why this line of argument pisses me off more than others. It just feels disingenuous on too many layers maybe.

    Anyways I feel like I've seen it come up a lot in the last few days. It would be funny to see if the ones arguing it can be classically trained into abandoning it

    • JuneFall [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      My first philosophy paper I started with an appeal to human nature and rightfully the prof did destroy that with big bold red markings. I did use the snappy start since I learned from the Economist and the big newspapers, be it Die Zeit or some Anglosphere ones that it is interesting and intellectual to do it.

      It is mostly used to strengthen hegemonic ideology, it isn't scientific and many people using it have no clue about what "natural" is and neither do they have concepts about what did happen in pre-history, but they think they do - as I did, too. It is a scourge.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      Lots of things are "natural" that don't have to happen and in the contemporary world don't happen anyway. People dying of preventable diseases by drinking from the same water that they bathe and wash in is natural. People having uncorrected vision or being left to die because they are unable to walk when they're injured is natural. Besides, love and compassion and group solidarity is natural but the libertarian fucks want to lean on "everyone is an insatiable glutton just like me" excuses.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      You would only encourage the further use of le Putler angery

    • JuneFall [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      Other funny options: "Constitution, founding fathers, individual rights, liberty, 'he', just war"

  • dinklesplein [any, he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Any time somebody talks about politics through the lens of 'tribalism' or boiling ideology down to a 'my team their team' situation.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      Surely there is a middle ground where the Adults In The Room that Make The Hard Decisions can Get Shit Done by doing only half of the atrocities for a marginally lower increased rate of profit. so-true

    • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      God I fucking hate the muh "tribalism" bit. It's almost as exhausting as American conservatives saying

      "RePubliC noT dEmoCraCy"

      It's peak brainworms

  • Lochat [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    Whenever someone misuses the word "logic" to mean "reason(albe/ing) because they don't know what logic is, which would make the word almost unused. Would be so nice.