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  • Because when you move from left to right, you’re welcomed with open arms, but trying to go from right to left is met with hostility. Hell, I’m barely on the right culturally, yet I’m often treated as if I’m far-right - especially online. If anything, this just pushes me further to the right, which, I’d argue, is exactly how we ended up with four more years of Trump and will likely lead to eight years of J.D. Vance next unless "the left" gets their act together.

  • I don't expect life to be fair to begin with. Would be nice if it were but I don't see a reason to assume that from it.

    How it's unfair to me? I don't know. I guess I'm a more serious person than most and I think about things deeply. People who don't take things as seriously as I do probably don't enjoy my company that much nor do I theirs. I'm not sure how else to explain it. I care about things I invest my time, thought and effort to and I tend to ignore things I don't care about. Like social games, small talk etc.

  • I think one of the few things Lemmy is better at is that I can go into 8hr old thread with 120 replies and write a comment and then have people actually read that comment too and react to it.

    With 99% of AskReddit threads for example, posting a reply was complete waste of time unless you were among the first ones in. Almost all of the top comments were always also among the first comments.

  • Getting banned from Lemmy is orders of magnitude easier. During my 10+ years on reddit I can only remember one occasion when I got banned from a sub but it has happened on Lemmy multiple times over the 1.5 years I've been here and comments being removed is a regular thing.

    On reddit you need to actually break the rules. On Lemmy it's enough that a mod doesn't like what you're saying.

  • I kind of wish someone was keeping track of speculative “news articles” like this and holding them accountable when they don’t come to fruition. There should be some reputational cost for making things up and spreading rumors.

  • Becoming a millionaire and becoming the richest people in the world are quite different. There's plenty of people with 100k USD who are not and will never be as succesfull/wealthy as Elon.

    But sure, whatever. You don't like Musk so I don't think anything anyone is going to say will change your mind on that.

  • If your idol turns out to be a jerk in real life, is that their fault, or does it mean you’re just a bad judge of character? And I mean generally - not you in particular.

    Personally, I’d be more than happy to meet my idols. I’ve listened to them speak for hundreds, and in some cases thousands, of hours on podcasts. Nobody can hide their true personality for that long. I’m confident I already have a pretty good idea of what they’re like in real life. That’s also why it’s so funny when non-listeners try to convince me that they know these people better than I do.