I don’t like debates don’t even bother starting one with me. I won’t change my mind and neither will you, so stop wasting your time.

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  • Because people go into these debates online to prove themselves right. They have no intention from changing their opinion from the begining. They only want to prove the others wrong. They have already a defense build up that discredits whatever others says. They don’t care about communication or understanding others they only care about representing their opinions the best way possible. Worst part, the harder they “lose” these debates, the deeper their believes in their opinion grows as they feel the need to defend their believes.

    As a tip, if someone wants to debate you on a topic, don’t engage or engange in a communicative & cheritable manner trying to understand them and why they hold their believes. Try to move their opinions a little from their side “I get exactly what you mean, but how abou this and that. Have you considered these possibilities?” Let them reach the right conclussion and not you force them into a conclussion. I know it’s way harder than just straight up debating them but way more productive if you truly care about a topic and want to engage with them in a debate.





  • Have you been to reddit, lately? Every sub is being populated by tons of bots representing their political agenda. So blatandly it’s scary and this not even in political subs.

    Reddit feels like it’s been populated by people that used to mainly be on Twitter.

    Lemmy feels like the early days of Reddit. When people actually still cared for the topics they were discussing and you had communities to discuss dedicated things.

    TLDR: I don’t care if Lemmy is Reddit 2.0 as long as it feels like the old Reddit. Because Reddit has just become Twitter 2.0.









  • Kennystillalive@feddit.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneGlobalism rule
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    15 days ago

    I mean for years now (at least since Obama) the US has been trying to destroy the WTO piece by piece as the fundamentals of the WTO do not align with the US trade policies and do favor China. So they wanted an organisation that favours the US. Obama started it by blocking the appointment of WTO appellate members, leading the WTO to being nothing more than a construct not able to enforce its rules. Trump kept that blockade and started a trade war with China, but since he needs attention he did this very publicly. When Brandon came around, he kept what Trump did as a meassure against China and kept the blockade alive, he was just quiet about it. Now Trump came again and saw it’s still standing and did set up for the final blow, but did it in such a castastrophic clumsy way… the plan of replacing the WTO with another US centric organisation is now as unrealistic as it could be.


  • I mean it’s not just a lemmy thing it’s an internet thing, but mostly common in places people don’t know the autor very well and the autor decides to not use any form of indication they are using sarcasm.

    Sarcasm and rethoric questions rely heavily on human conection and being able to read tonal shifts or gestures of the speaker. You don’t have any of that on the internet.

    Yes, you can take the absurdity of some claims as an indicator some people might be using sarcasm… Then again you look what is happening world wide, and some of the absurdities being said cannot be taken as someone taking the piss but much rather hey this unknown person might hold this believes.

    So when writing and wanting to use sarcasm please be classy enough to leave a clue that it’s sarcasm by using an /s as ☠️ or writting in italics.