Arguing on the Internet
2026-04-19 17:35 UTC
Replies (8)
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@ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2026-04-19 18:01
g
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@kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 2026-04-19 19:42
Yeah but the guy who calls the other guy dumb fuck is right. You have to be a dumb fuck to see what is clearly either a 6 or a 9 as a 4. And there is no recourse when dealing with a loud, confident, dumb fuck that is denying the very reality of his eyes to project his desired alternate reality except to dismiss them as a dumb fuck and (optionally) announce it to those around him lest they begin to question their eyes as well.
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@Peanutbjelly@sopuli.xyz 2026-04-19 17:54
it's both. you have groups that socially confirm themselves out of any attempt to actively re-align with reality rather than their own confabulations. dangerous, powerful, and cancerous cults completely detached from any rationality. then you have weird framing problems that has us finding progressives fighting each other, because they've created oversimplified heuristic ideas of the larger or more complex reality than has been represented by their narrow, and likely emotionally salient local environment. this can be exploited to make people fight each-other when they don't actually have a reason to, purely because they cannot broaden their understanding of both their local and the other person's environment simultaneously. especially when there is social pressure to prove you are not behaving like "the enemy," otherwise you get ostracized. this is also often due to local groups 'creating' their own reality via the sensible bias gained from their lived experience, so it's only unreasonable once you understand the broader perspective. like if someone moved into the city and jumped every time they see a garden hose in the corner of their vision, because they've grown into an environment where survival depends on making long tubes in the grass especially salient. the city dwellers laugh and make fun of them for being a weird loser, and ostracize them causing the person suffering due to not fitting the environment. if the city dwellers moved to the dangerous snake area, maybe they would die from failure to react to a snake. imagine the family of the snake-area person getting upset at the city people for the legitimate grievance caused to their social member, and the city people felt likewise. now you have a war for no reason other than people are stupid. now if people with a lot of money and power in both areas felt they could better control their people by intentionally stoking this fire, then you have even more stupid warring.
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@maya_the_good_apple@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-19 19:16
(15±3)/2!
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@NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 2026-04-19 23:02
With one tiny minor correction: "You dumb bitch!"
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@Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2026-04-19 18:11
I mean.....in the second panel, the guy on the right is absolutely right. If for some unexplained reason I was walking down the sidewalk, and a giant number shaped like that was laying on the ground, and some guy pointed at it and said "THATS A 4!" I'd first make sure he wasn't actually mentally retarded, and if he weren't, I too would call him a dumb fuck. Because lets be real, that guy IS a dumb fuck.
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@lime@feddit.nu 2026-04-19 18:41
you'd know
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@Impractical_Island@lemmy.world 2026-04-22 00:51
