I think the belief that most people are good actually causes people to attack the ones calling out bad behavior, rather than calling out the bad behavior itself, which is a major contributing cause of many societal issues. Some people are truly just bad people, and we need to learn to accept this. I did after the last few years in politics. Can’t be an algorithm when they elected the president. “Stay positive” is bad advice when you’re trying to accurately identify and solve a problem where things aren’t positive.
Does it matter that most people are good if most people in power aren’t, and they have an army of similar-minded people following their orders?
Because there’s more of us than there are of them, so perhaps we can do something about it.
No, Simu. You are detached from reality. Stop trying to humanize POS Nazi garbage. Stop trying to reintegrate them. I will NEVER forgive
Not with this government, 3rd world countries are installing solar while our leader is canceling solar and i cannot get panels
Oooh, and here I thought the GOP was a bunch of Nazis fucking children. Guess it’s just the algorithm fucking children and opening concentration camps.
We get it, you disagree with OP. Have you considered your comment may come across as a level of unhinged and impotent rhetoric that only moreso proves OP’s point? I hope you find peace soon, and I absolutely relate with your distaste of the current atrocities✌️
So which is it? Are these atrocities happening, or is it just the algorithm pushing that narrative? You can’t have it both ways (it’s real, btw).
You Republicans never cease to make me laugh.
The pubbers are baseless as all hell now–what makes you think I’m one of em homeboy?
So are they atrocities or not? Because you seem awfully chill about the whole thing, like they’re mild inconveniences that aren’t actively ruining millions of lives
hope you find peace soon, and I absolutely relate with your distaste of the current atrocities✌️
There’s nothing outside the text. Whatever you’re reading into this is strictly your fantasy. I’m not denying we’re in a nightmare, I’m just old and stuck protecting the few that depend on me.
How could most people be good if they voted for the the pedo king three times?
You’d probably be shocked at how ignorant most Americans are. See those man-in-the-street interviews Mamdani had with NYC Trump voters? They seemed to know nothing about Trump, just had vibes.
If you get your news and political views from FaceBook, you’re going to be ignorant as hell. And if you throw Fox News in, you’ll come out knowing even less.
On top of all that, over half of Americans top out at a 6th-grade reading level. 20% are flat out illiterate. Can’t find the stat again, but an appalling number of us can’t follow along in a novel.
We can’t fix anything in this country until we fix education. How can we even speak to people about climate change, collapsing ecosystems, repeating 20th century history, anything at all, when they don’t have a basic education?
I totally agree that most Trump voters simply know nothing about him. I maintain an acquaintance with a Trump supporter kind of just out of curiosity and they know incredibly little about him as a person, or the things he’s doing as president. They’re generally just unaware. He didn’t even know that Trump abused emergency powers to bypass Congress to impose tariff taxes on Americans.
But that doesn’t mean they aren’t a bad person. Not engaging with the democracy you live in and ensuring that it remains healthy makes you a bad person, in my opinion. Too many people sacrificed their lives to give us democracy and not engaging responsibly is unbelievably disrespectful and makes you a bad person. Voting for someone without knowing anything about them makes you a bad person.
Most people did not vote which is a different kind of bad
Yeah, talk to enough conservatives IRL and you’ll know this is bullshit.
Selfish, evil human beings. Whether they realize it or not.
Except for the elites, I think it’s more constructive to think of them as brainwashed by an ancient meme; potentially redeemable.
Emphasis on ‘potentially’. Don’t waste too much time on them, some of them get off on watching you uselessly spend your time and energy and sanity on them. Brainwashing doesn’t work like it does in comic books. These are people who were already willing to and capable of rationalizing putting kids into cages and the ‘brainwashing’ just gave them an easy explanation.
It’s like a person who has committed rape. Even if they come out later as an anti-rape activist and they’re publicly remorseful and they do a lot of work to make up for the harm they caused you still aren’t gonna leave them alone with your sister.
It’s a nice thought. Absurd, but nice.
70 million people voted for Trump twice. They cheer at ICE kidnappings, call racists saints, and such. The reality is that a lot less people are actually good (meaning they care genuinely about the well being of others) than this post makes it seem.
I’m not on any of those platforms, though, and I’ve been angry since the mid-2000s at least. Maybe I should try to be less angry…? No. No, I don’t think that’s viable at the moment.
The GOP fuck children, btw.
not to mention all the troll bots. If you are arguing online, theres a good chance its just a bot/
I know it’s scary
This, more than anything, is why I stick to the Fediverse. There’s some negativity here, but it’s organic, and generally not being conjured out of thin air to get me to buy shit.
When I log on to FB to check my DM’s, it’s very obvious what the algo is doing, and I can’t be bothered to indulge it.
How I wish that was true.
I’m with you. I mean, its probably the bubble I live in, but I’m so tired of trying to talk to my friends and family about all of this but I’m dismissed as being paranoid or they tell me that Biden was just as bad or frankly most often just some dismissive joke in response.
I’m guessing about as many people care about this as there are who support all of it. The remaining 40-50% is just checked out and thinks this is just politics as usual. That’s my impression anyway.
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That’s not quite the same, though notifications and spam through the app would count.
The corpo LLMs do have a huge sycophancy bias, which would contribute as an addictive effect, I guess (and get people down strange psycological rabbit holes like you see in the news). I’d suggest switching between different models, especially the ‘niche’ open-weights finetunes on OpenRouter and such, that aren’t so sycophantic. And also aren’t OpenAI, because Altman is literally a blood sucking con artist.
Which ironically I believe is the problem with Lemmy too. I tend to browse unfiltered/all/top 6 hours (with the exception of .ml) and the amount of doom and gloom on here either depresses me or makes me angry with everything being reported.
I find I have to step away or switch to highly curated stuff that doesn’t have a drop of real world events in it.
Come hang out with us at !wholesome@reddthat.com and !NiceMemes@sopuli.xyz there is only joy there
There’s a certain amount of catharsis in commiseration. Not all the negativity is due to algorithmic curation; a decent amount is legit sadness/anger at the way things are going in the world. Which is valid, imho. But I also understand that it requires some serious hand-curating to get only positive information. Reddit is a lot harder in that regard, as well.
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I think they’re saying they use the “Top -> 6 hrs” category to sort posts when they browse.
