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  • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Why is the culture of hate growing on Lemmy?
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    1 day ago

    I don’t think things are getting worse. You do.

    So you refuse to defend your spoken position with anything concrete, even though I’ve asked you about multiple specific examples that contradict your position.

    And I don’t think any of this should add to the “hate” problem that some see on Lemmy. Which is the point of OP’s post.

    Well why would you? You seem to be just fine with the destruction of lives around you, even making supporting statements that you think its good these things are happening to these people. Why do you think that your positions don’t deserve hateful responses? Lemmy doesn’t have a “hate” problem. Today’s leadership in the USA, and as a consequence, our society now does.

    Hate isn’t the answer

    I agree with that statement. However, your chosen positions are steeped in hate yet you defer or ignore it. That wreaks of hypocrisy on your part, and points back to the intellectual dishonesty I accused you of earlier.

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Why is the culture of hate growing on Lemmy?
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    1 day ago
    You’re being intellectually dishonest if you are claiming your statement is true.

    Just because I said something that you didn’t agree with doesn’t mean I was being “intellectually dishonest,” and it’s rude of you to imply that.

    You can keep your false righteous indignation. How can you claim to tell person in an El Salvador prison right now its “no worse off”? Please, explain that to me. How about a fired federal worker? Is it “no worse off” for them now they’re unemployed?

    I lived through the 80’s. Try living then and telling me that life is worse now. lol

    I already told you I’m an older, well off, white man. Yes, I lived through the 80s too. How is that relevant at all? You’re we should be happy now because we don’t have 12% interest rates yet and stagflation is how we should be okay with trump destroying the world economy for likely the better part of the upcoming decade? Why stop your measure over 40 years ago, long before most of the people here were even born?

    Why not tell interracial married couples “Try living in 1966 and not being able to get legally married to your spouse of a different race. lol”

    Why not tell women and “Try living in 1918 and not being able to vote. lol”

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Why is the culture of hate growing on Lemmy?
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    1 day ago

    I don’t think the world is getting “worse,” it’s just the doomscrollers on Lemmy wanting it to be worse to fit their own twisted narratives.

    For many MANY groups it is getting objectively worse.

    For those in the USA:

    • if they are trans they are at risk for violence or legal consequences for simply going in a public bathroom.
    • if they work for the federal government they have lost or are at risk for losing their livelihood.
    • if the weren’t a natural born citizen of the USA they are at risk for deportation to a prison in El Salvador irrespective of their circumstances of student visa, asylum visa, green card holder, even naturalized citizens.
    • if they are a women, their lives are now at risk from preventable disorders if they get pregnant
    • if they are old or disabled they are now at risk of being declared dead and having their retirement Social Security income cut off
    • if they are a child they are at risk of dying from preventable diseases (like measles or whooping cough) even with decades old effective vaccines available, but not used.
    • if they are poor they are at risk for possible hunger and starvation as basic food assistance has been cut around the country deemed as “waste”
    • if they are a veteran needing medical care they are now at risk from cuts to staff that facilitate care for the people that stood in defense of our nation.

    For our great historical allies of Canada and Mexico:

    • they are getting their economies destroyed because they trusted the USA to honor its own written treaties.

    For the rest of the world:

    • they just today the world got an unjustified kick in the shins with nearly global trade tariffs from the USA.

    The only group that aren’t generally hurt yet are: well off older white men

    As a member of that group I find it fucking disgusting what is being done to everyone that isn’t in this group at the hands of this group.