Opinionhaver @ Opinionhaver @feddit.uk

A contrarian isn’t one who always objects - that’s a confirmist of a differ

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Shame them all you want - it’s not going to change how they vote. If anything, it just reinforces their choice. People might not even fully agree with the party they end up supporting, but when they feel dismissed, mocked, or ignored - especially over things like cultural values or identity - they vote out of spite. It’s not rational, but it’s real.

That’s part of what got Trump elected as well. When political and cultural movements go so far in trying to please a niche minority that they alienate the broader majority, eventually that majority pushes back.

I literally don’t even understand what you’re trying to accuse me of.

The term is no longer used as such. Antisemite means a person who hates Jews, and many of the "pro-Palestine" people are such - including a huge number of Palestinians and Muslims in general. It's not a propaganda narrative - it's a fact. The destruction of Israel and Jews is Hamas's stated goal.

The Hour will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews, and the Muslims will kill them, until the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say: O Muslim, O servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him—except the gharqad tree, for it is one of the trees of the Jews.

Sahih Muslim, Book 41, Hadith 6985

by falsely claiming they are antisemitic.

A significant number of them are true antisemites. Not all ofcourse, probably not even the majority but there's plenty of them.

Lemmy is worse than reddit in almost every measureable way. The reason I haven't gone back to reddit is purely out of principle and it's not a principle if it's not costing you anything.

Longest continuous edging streak. Hell, I might already hold that record anyway.

The fact that the trail exists there in the first place means that there's enough people walking on it that the grass dies and doesn't grow bag. I've started a trail from scratch and I doubt there's more than a handful of people walking there every week but the trail just keeps getting more carved in.

The average business in the U.S. employs about four people, and roughly half employ even fewer than that. I run a business that employs one person - me. So I’m not sure whose way I’m supposed to be getting out of, or how exactly I’m making anyone’s life worse.

Loneliness is the tax we have to pay to atone for a certain complexity of mind

Given the current level of "intelligence" in AI models, I’m pretty tempted to say that if a job can be done by AI without any significant drop in quality, then it probably wasn’t a great job to begin with - and having a machine do it is likely the better path in the long run.

Cooking sucks pretty hard though I'm not a huge fan of eating either.

This is why a lot of 20-38 year old young boys are turning to conservatism.

As far as I know, there’s only been a slight shift toward conservatism among young men. For the most part, their political views haven’t changed all that much - it’s actually women who have shifted much more noticeably to the left and thus widening the gap between them.

Referring to men in general as “wife beaters” is exactly the kind of rhetoric that fuels Tate’s popularity.

It’s also pretty dishonest to lump his followers in with incels. Tate openly despises incels - he sees them as quitters. His whole message is about power, self-discipline, and taking control of your life. Incels, on the other hand, are rooted in despair and nihilism. They believe the game is rigged, that the problem is in their genes, and that there’s nothing they can do to change it. It’s a fundamentally different mindset.

Young men are struggling badly, and almost no one seems to take it seriously. A lot of them want to man up - but the message they get from much of the media is to man down. I saw a Reddit thread asking who young boys could look up to as a role model, and the top answer was Aragorn. You literally have to turn to fictional characters to find someone broadly seen as decent.

They gravitate toward people like Andrew Tate (and Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, Jocko Willink, David Goggins, etc.) because those are some of the only public voices telling them it’s okay to be a man - and to embrace masculine traits - without apology.

Last of Us. Fallout I didn't even bother with. I probably would've bailed on Breaking Bad as well if it wasn't for everyone around me telling that it'll get good eventually (it didn't)

Wait till they find out about all the papers with scientific terms made up by humans

Saying "AI is dumb" is like saying "plants taste bad"

You're probably talking about our current Large Language Models.

Choosing to filter out political content from your social media feed isn’t necessarily about denial or apathy. For many people, it's a conscious decision to preserve their mental clarity and avoid being constantly pulled into emotionally charged, tribal, or manipulative discourse. Being well-informed doesn’t require immersing yourself in an endless stream of outrage, nor does stepping back from that mean you’re turning a blind eye to anything.

There’s a difference between ignoring reality and choosing how and when to engage with it. Most of what passes for political content online isn’t a sober presentation of facts or ideas - it’s performance, manufactured outrage, and algorithm-driven noise. If someone wants to stay sane and focus on things they can actually influence in their immediate life, I don’t see that as sticking their head in the sand. I see it as setting healhy boundaries in an environment that’s often designed to provoke rather than inform.

People aren’t morally obligated to be constantly exposed to negativity just to prove they care. In fact, thoughtful action tends to come from those who can step back from the noise and think clearly, not from those who are perpetually consumed by it.

I agree. I’m getting pretty tired of your condescending tone. I’ve looked past your false accusation about me supposedly downvoting you, ignored the rude “explain or GTFO” remark, and even politely asked you to clarify what you were asking so I could give you a more helpful answer - but you just keep going with the same behavior.

You have a nice day.

It’s about as effective as talking about it on social media all day, every day. The people making real change are out in the real world doing concrete things - not just posting about it online. Shaming people for not wanting to be miserable 24/7 because of the constant firehose of bad news isn’t just unproductive - it’s counterproductive.