Nah, I wasn’t ignoring your fundamental points. I was discussing a tangent related to why you were being downvoted specifically. I find keeping to one topic at a time greatly increases someone’s chance of actually reading and understanding it.

I agree in the general case that up/down votes are far too coarse and uninformative, but sometimes it’s pretty obvious why someone’s getting an upset of votes.

Yes, that is called, “obstinance”. Or a lack of reading comprehension. Or both.

Nono, that was a joke. This is important because Drumpf is supposed to punish more brown people, not less.

Hey, even homo erectus had females of their species. We should be honored to be in the presence of such a living fossil.

No, you’re getting downvoted because you’re only responding to the parts of posts that you want to completely deny instead of engaging with other details.

Now, either continue to prove my point that you’re either bad faith or immature to the point of lacking self awareness, or respond to the other points made like how several ways to sort don’t even factor in votes like the default “active” or new comments, etc, or how some people actively seek out the controversial posts.

Obstinance should not be confused with confidance.

Correct. Exactly like the Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea is FAR from democratic nor a republic. It’s a royal dictatorship.

If China were actually communist, they wouldn’t have a ruling party, nor would you know the name Xi.

If Russia were actually socialist, no one outside of Russian speaking countries would know the word oligarch, because they wouldn’t have any. Nor would they functionally have a dictator.

If the US were actually the land of the free, they wouldn’t have the highest prison population in the world nor defended slavery for so long.

The list goes on and on… Just because a country calls themselves something, doesn’t make it true.

You’re definitely projecting your own opinion of the matter here. You’re not debating anything by simply repeatedly denying their view and restating your opinion.

Now please, if you want to actually discuss it, respond to their points about how many sorting schemes do not factor in votes. Respond to anything except the parts you simply want to deny.

You’re clearly getting engagement despite being downvoted, so this very discussion is proving your opinion ignorant and rather dogmatic.

You are appearing more and more bad faith, or just plain grossly ignorant, and willfully so… If you won’t accept the truth, the truth that is being handed to you, with references, by other people, then prepare to not be part of this “echo chamber” for much longer…

I’d much, much rather be in an echo chamber where BS is questioned and reality is not ignored than a conservative hellscape where basic facts of reality are ignored, like, “tons of CO2 in the atmosphere is totally fine, actually” or, “trans people are corrupting sports!”.

Yea… fuck those at best extremely stupid people and at worst, vitriolic piles of trash.

I had to give my friend this news some years ago, to no avail. Sooo many upvoted “answers” on Reddit are just confidantly incorrect BS. It’s also trivial to find reddit answers from general search results instead of limiting your search to just Reddit.

No, for the simple reason that some (yes, definitely not enough) politicians are trying to actually do good things, and they can do good things, in theory. Cops are bad because they’re enforcers of any and all laws, and nobody has purely good laws, and they’re specifically in the business of protecting property over lives, restricting peoples’ freedoms/etc.

The only case where all politicians are bad is in pure, actual communism, which cannot exist at this point in history.

You can declare what ever you want. It doesn’t make you correct.

A label hijacked by conmen is not an accurate representation of what something is supposed to actually be.

The fact that dying is harder than a lot of people assume. Damn biology making me hungry and thirsty and afraid of train tracks…

You must have an incredibly bad attention span, or have negative media literacy if you think most of that applies to Breaking Bad.

What part of my post implied that I recently came to this conclusion?

This is the only comment I’ve made on this post, and it doesn’t backpedal? How is your reading comprehension so low?

Fun fact: hand sanitizer still doesn’t work. There are many strains of nasty bugs that survive even high alcohol concentrations, let alone chemicals like benzalkonium chloride. There’s a reason they have to put, “kills 99.x%”

Antibacterial soaps are banned in Europe because all they do is give germs the evolutionary pressure to get even better at surviving these chemicals.

The fact you can so boldly miss the entire point of social -ism is hilarious and sad.