• Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      The problem with pretending to be a dumbass on the Internet, is it’s almost impossible to outdo the professionals.

    • Badland9085@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      It’s not possible for everyone to just tell if it’s supposed to be sarcasm. ADHD makes it hard. A bad day makes it hard. A tiring day makes it hard.

      The downside of the misunderstanding isn’t just downvotes. It’s possibly a proliferation of misinformation and an impression that there are people who DO think that way.

      Being not serious while saying something grim is not a globally understood culture either. It’s more common and acceptable in the Western world as a joke.

      So… call it accessibility, but it’s just more approachable for everyone to just put an “/s”.

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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      3 months ago

      Well… Communism is directly responsible for multiple famines that killed into the hundreds of millions. Then there are the inevitable purges that have taken millions of lives and hosts of terrors as well.

      You’re free to dispute history if you need to, and claim that theoretically communism is nice, but in practice, history tells us that living under communism reaaaalllyy sucks.

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        3 months ago

        that’s like saying capitalism is directly responsible for school shootings because it happens all the time in the US. but no one’s dumb enough to claim that because that’s not how things work.

        • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          3 months ago

          well, technically the USSR exported lots and lots of grain during the 30s famine. So.

          It’s still not perfect, but you could argue there was mismanagement there.