2016*

There’s also the phenomenon where if you say anything remotely negative online about a thing, people think you’re the most enraged person ever, even if you’re just mildly annoyed. A lot of assumptions are made on the Internet, that’s for sure.

Sure, but if you’re doing it online and trying to hide that you’re doing it, I’m gonna say 90% of the time or more, the intention is to irritate.

I don’t know anything about the first or last items in this list, but I don’t see anything else crazy on there. “Conspiracy theory” strictly would refer to any of your list when unproven, however if you look at the use of that term in reality, it’s far more often used to describe an apeshit theory like the us government planning 9/11 or the earth being flat. Something like those, you need to ignore several obvious basic arguments against them to even entertain them.

Edit: rereading your original comment, it sounds like we are both saying the same thing really.

Because there are many idiots who accidentally ended up with somewhat right politics, not because they actually have a balanced worldview, but because they happened to be exposed to leftist ideas and never bothered to learn why they are more humane. So basically they’re binary-thinking extremists. If you’re not exactly aligned with them, then you’re against them.

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Right, that’s also how I think of it

I thought it was some new animal crossing meets dark souls mashup, there for a second.

Before I realized there was no point 99% of the time, I didn’t think it was a waste of time. Now if I’m feeling generous I think, at least on a platform like Lemmy, best you can hope is like 10% of the time you plant a seed for the person with a wrong idea or opinion that will eventually lead them to a better understanding. I certainly know that’s happened to me before when I was wrong. So often, people make the online exchange feel awful though. There’s a prominent attitude in many extremist/wrong viewpoints that not only are they right, everyone who thinks differently is an evil asshole.

Ideas that aren’t on the insane end of the spectrum tend to not be labeled conspiracy theories. Which ones deserve such better treatment, out of curiosity?

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Did you know, this is called “trolling”?

4d chess tho /s

Yeah, I get that to an extent. But how the fuck could someone vote for such a morally corrupt piece of fucking shit? Not voting would make way more sense. Yet the data suggests Republicans are more dedicated to voting than Democrats. fucking sadly.

FUCK yes it is. I’ve always found it astonishing that he could possibly have more than 10% of voters or supporters. It says so much about this country that he does.

I’m sorry I made assumptions and I’m definitely projecting on some level, but at the same time it may be worth considering that someone who freezes up may have some unaired feelings. I say that as someone who occasionally does have that happen (both parts). You’re right I certainly may be totally off base though and I may have read some tone that wasn’t there, which text is notorious for being vulnerable to. Either way I ought to try to make less assumptions and you can take or leave what I’m saying here (and I really don’t mean that in a shitty way, just admitting I may be completely wrong)

Sorry let me take a few minutes to think up some weird dramatic shit about how Democrats are worse than Republicans because of some half baked shit logic.

not understanding

Yeah sometimes people with issues get hurt and it goes unnoticed. It’s a struggle for some of us. Anyhow, sorry you think I’m singling you out. I have no reason to do that other than what felt like a very submissive tone. When I tried to explain what it might be like for others, your response felt dismissive again /shrug

You come off as not understanding that you’ve hurt your husband’s feelings and I can relate to that “why can’t you just [insert thing I can’t help]?”. In this thread lots of people are relating to that kinda thing so it was kinda jarring to see the opposite.

What happens is when people get told they’re weird because of the way they are, it hurts. Yeah that’s happened to me many times and it sucks a lot. Fortunately my current partner is pretty understanding.