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but seriously do you realize how insufferable you sound when you make an appeal to your own authority

Do you actually think socialists are so dumb that they never thought of these arguments?

Based on my conversations with other self-proclaimed anarcho-communists in this very same thread, and that exchange mirroring the experience of every other anarcho-communist I’ve talked to on Lemmy apart from you, yeah, I kinda did.

But that’s besides the point. What I want is to be left alone. I want to get on with my life without someone demanding to know whether I believe Israel should exist or not, because both sides in that conflict are committing war crimes and the idea of reading seventeen Wikipedia pages about the historical conflict of those two countries so that I can choose which side to support and more effectively defend myself in Internet arguments I never asked to have doesn’t really appeal. I want to be able to not fully commit to being vegan quite yet without someone helpfully telling me I’m a murderer. I want to look at memes without somehow getting into a discussion about economic systems. Most of all I want to be able to want that without being called a fascist.

The ideas leftists present are good ideas. But I would like there to be a space I can go every now and again where I don’t have to think about them.

Okay. I’ll concede that first point, and that conservatives fit the meme perfectly. I’m pretty sure the meme isn’t exclusively talking about conservatives, though. What about the second point?

yes. the irony is lost on you. it is… called satire. the author is making fun of the ridiculous state of the world by describing it as though it were normal, thus provoking outrage in the reader upon realizing that it is not.

also i’m not the person you replied to. and even if that person was an asshole, being an asshole would not make them a conservative.

you are just on a roll today, aren’t you?

“please demonstrate that you have any reading comprehension skills whatsoever”

“please stop being so mean to me”

with the most recent call last, but the actual exception at the top

programmerhumor lemmy continuing the fine r/programmerhumor tradition of memes that are only tangentially related to technology and have dick all to do with programming posted by non programmers who want to hang out with the hackermen

STOP THIS IMMEDIATELY

Is that… would this be classified as Tiamat’s fursona?

Speaking of which, here’s the article in the post. Y’all know what to do.

Twilight Sparkle what have they done to you

EDIT: just looked up picture of thr MLP eye colors and eyelash patterns for comparison. My sincerest apologies, Applejack

You use a graphical environment? Sissy.

I agree with the sentiment but as an autistic person I’d appreciate it if you didn’t use that word

EDIT: downvotes? Come on, lemmy, what gives? If this had been an anti-trans slur you’d have already grabbed your pitchforks!

No, it’s just that I thought people who grew up poor and ended up rich were a myth made up by the borgeoise to tell poor people it was their own fault

Leftists talking about bootstraps? Never thought I’d see the day!

I won’t dispute that there are some genuinely awful people masquerading as media critics on YouTube nowadays (coughcoughcriticaldrinkercoughnerdrotic), or that there is a chunk of the population who simply tune into their ragebait in search of opinions to plug into their brains. Those “media critics” could be comic book fans. I wouldn’t know, I don’t watch their channels. But if that were the sole driving force, why wasn’t there a conservative outcry when Nick Fury, who was white in some comics and black in others, was portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson in the MCU? I find it difficult to believe conservative talking heads would ever pass up an excuse to complain about something like that if there was any kernel of truth to it.

More importantly, why was there backlash against Ariel from people on the left who did not object to Miles Morales?

Type reboot into an SSH session and play everyone’s favorite game show…

WILL IT ACTUALLY DO IIIIIIIIIIIIIIT

relevant xkcd

Inb4 someone calls you anti-science for this