I’m a neurotypical, but this is me too! I sometimes wanted to type a whole paragraph arguing with tankies/fascists, then realize, what’s the point, so I just ignore them.
Yeah. I often type out a comment. The. Realize I really don’t want to be bother by this person’s adhoc reply… then just delete it.
Talking with tankies is generally pointless anyway. I just block and move on. No one is going to read their mad rambling either anyway so
It’s less of a “try to convince them” but more of a “i need to confront them counter their propaganda”, like you don’t confront racists because you think they’ll change, but to remind them and society that it’s wrong and the more people start confronting them, the less socially acceptable it is. But then again, I could just ignore them. It isn’t my fault that people get brainwashed by a tankie/nazi comment online.
Yep. Most of the time online you won’t convince the person you’re arguing against, BUT to convince people reading the thread. For the most part, arguing online is performative, for the purpose of the audience rather than the participants.
“You worship single-party states, not caring about worker enfranchisement - you’re not a communist - you’re a red fascist that gives communism a bad name.”
“What kind of half-arsed unprincipled Nazi are you? You’re posting here rather than emulating your furher, who shot himself.”
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I never had to block anyone on that other site. I like it here much better, but I might actually have to start blocking these tankie fucks.
Boo 👻
Haha that’s so–
Actually, never mind. I don’t care that much.
I have a strange fear of being engaged by trolls. The thought alone is exhausting. I may or may not take the bait but the possibility of wasting my time on a useless argument means I’m hesitant to post. Not sure if anyone else has felt like this.
It can be a part of Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria, and it’s more common in people with ADHD. You’re not alone in feeling this way.
All the god damn time
They’re bound to name some form of mental defect after you.
It’s already a thing. Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria. It’s more common in people with ADHD.
The meme in the OP was made for you. You should learn what it means.
Also, realizing that I actually don’t really have any idea what I’m talking about…
Conversely, if you actually are an expert on a specific subject, reading any comment thread about it is very disheartening and will leave you wondering how much bullshit you’ve accidentally ingested and taken at face value from other threads about which you are less knowledgeable.
This phenomenon was coined Gell-Mann Amnesia. Sometimes people will ingest content uncritically even when the source has been wrong in the past on subjects the people are knowledgeable about.
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I will confirm what they said so that you’re even less likely to check it
Fake it til you make it
I get so caught up in making sure my meaning can’t possibly be misinterpreted that I get lost on my way to the point. I guess I don’t want to be a cherry-picked example of somebody being stupid on the Internet.
Write something with specificity to avoid attacks on a general statement and nobody reads it because it’s TL;DR.
Write something general and brief and you get attacked for lack of specificity with people naming exceptions.
Can’t fucking win.
Interesting game, the only way to win is to not play.
Redditors in a nutshell
Thing is you might need to reframe something for someone to understand it better. But then you’re not expressing your original interpretation of a concept but a slightly modified one. Yet we are expected to believe we are both somehow closer to comprehension…
What are words even good for?!If it makes you feel any better, just know that journalism is based on cherry picked stuff because that’s the only way they’re able to live nowadays
Well, that’s the only way we have ever lived. Specifically cherry picking stuff that could potentially kill us. Ipso facto; if it bleeds it leads
Mostly it’s like I keep editing and editing to get the right tone for a somewhat offensive style joke so I don’t have too many people not understanding it’s a joke before I think “fuck it, this is too much work for a stupid joke.”
It would being nothing to the conversation, or I don’t find the right words for explain my ideas correctly.
Or I realize halfway through that I’m being a bit of a dick and decide the world doesn’t need more shittiness so I just delete the comment.
Or I realize that the message I start to reply to is hostile and not worth engaging with.
This too.
Or I find the right words, but they come all at once and in the wrong order, and there’s just so many of them, and it’s very important that I get them exactly right, and… yeah I’m just going to not bother.
And then a few hours later I realize that it was a work email and I probably should get back to that.
Ouch. Important mails, I succeed to do them well.
Not necessarily anything to do with ADHD. Sometimes I just realise that writing whatever I’m writing would just trigger someone to start a fight. Then I stop.
That’s what I
But I…
gets out of bed
Arguing with people on the internet is like masturbation. It’s fun at first, but eventually you realize you are only fucking yourself.
At least masturbation has an obvious end point.
Happens to me all the damn time.
I just wish I wouldn’t waste an hour typing and rewording it before I eventually give up.
This is like 80% of my comments but just 5-10 minutes. I don’t want to deal with the follow up lol.
It almost seems like someone is watching just waiting to come in with an irate response
for real 😭 I really ha
Do you ever type out a multiple paragraph argument about something and then just delete it because it’s all bullshit anyway?
Yep. Like sometimes that fifth reread of the comment I’m replying to makes me realize the person is actually a troll and won’t care how thought out my response is.
All. The. Time.
I’ve done it on a post about blimps since posting that comment lol 😅
I just did it for this comment, and then after realising that I wrote this comment (the previous was going on a different tangent)
Sometimes I get to the finish line and submit it. Then some shmuck has the nerve to point out some silly little typo. I barely care enough to finish the comment you real
I do this in real life too. I just windows log-off noise midway through a conversation
When you realize that you don’t have to reply to a person on the internet, then you are truly free
Wow it worked.
Oh, wait.
