Lemmy users are like

Whenever someone posts this sort of vague "people aren't tolerating my ideas" post, nine-times-outta-ten, the ideas in question are just awful.

No, my idea is great, everyone else is wrong!
Biden's a good president
I like cars
Food isn't expensive if you buy chicken/pork on sale
Corpo greed / cost cutting / layoffs is driven by ruthless consumer demand for cheaper products over all else. Rather than pointing to faceless organizations looking for a boogieman, people should look in a mirror.
Elections are won by voting
On some self reflection, #3 and #4 is pretty closely related. Something something no margin for small farmers I think. Ah well, everyone's a hypocrite - including me.
- Subjective. But he's not the worst.
  Liking cars is one thing, but we should not be designing our lives around cars. The more we cater for cars, the worse our living conditions get. The more we treat cars as the primary and required method of transport, the worse our society becomes.
  And 4. Individual action alone is simply just ineffective at solving the problems. Focusing on individuals rather than systemic change is the same as doing nothing. If we want to change behaviour, we have to change incentives.
- All of these in the numbered list could add some serious dynamics to conversations on Lemmy. Yeah. You have identified our collective blind spots.
There's nothing wrong with wanting to build a giant slide from the peak of Mount Joffre, OK‽
Like yours
- What?

Sometimes the bad guys have skulls on their caps and it's really just that black and white simple.

Sometimes, but not usually

Using imfglip and linking to it instead of hosting the image somewhere (Lemmy? Imgbb?) definitely makes you one of the baddies.

Also there's several variations of this meme that you could have used that don't use a violent abusers image. Like a similar one with Geordi LaForge from Star Trek.

drake is a violent abuser?
- I think they've mixed up Drake, the rapper, and Drake Bell, the actor. Though the two look nothing alike, so maybe I've missed some news report.
- Drake is a groomer.
What's wrong with linking to imgflip ?
- For me (using Jerboa), it automatically opens in an external browser instead of just opening the image in app.
  Other apps might not have this issue though. Not sure why OP made the remark.
Sorry, I did not know that. Won`t happen again.

While there's definitely some of that going on, the people I usually see complaining about this kind of thing are not interested in the fair exchange of ideas. Rather, they're upset that one of their dumb opinions got made fun of in a public forum.

Oh dear, someone's mad that others rejected their fascism again

You are not sharing my opinion? You must be a FaSciSt!
- Straw man

yeah, im this 🤏 close to unsubscribing from any news related communities. the comments are mostly repetitive circle-jerks and antagonistic in-fighting. it's really affecting my time on here.

So many people seem to genuinely think they shouldn't need to pay rent or work. Or that their employer should pay for their commute.
- With how unnecessary it is sometimes to be in the office with teleworking and losing my time commuting, that would be a way for employers to think twice before asking someone to come in, and give some kind of compensation to those who can't work from home.
- I mean. Both of those things seem like pretty reasonable positions to discuss. They way you write that seems to imply that rent and work are simply facts of life, but they don't have to be. Or at the very least, they could look a lot different to how they do now.
  Rent is an economic concept that doesn't have to exist. In fact it's not hard to make the economic argument that it should not exist. Rent-seeking is generally considered a bad thing, because it removes value from a system.
  Work is harder to get away from. But there's no reason work has to look like how employment does today. And there's a productive discussion around how much work is reasonable, especially as automation continues to advance.
- I came here to be entertained, not lectured.
- Personally I don't think that companies should be responsible for taking care of people... because that's the governments responsibility. We are rapidly approaching a situation where people will be automated out of work faster than we can invent new arbitrary things for them to do. UBI is inevitable it's just a question of when and how
Ngl same

This has absolutely nothing to do with Beef Stroganoff.

True.

This isn't limited to lemmy users.

no you dont understand!!! my opinion is correct, and anyone who dares to question it is automaticay one of the bad guys!!!!

You are mistaken. MY opinion is the truth, always.
- Actually, you're both wrong.

My favourite part of Lemmy is seeing enlightened centrists posting to Lemmy.ml thinking it’ll be sympathetic to any other ideology than socialism/communism.

Oh look an Enlightened Centrist post. I thought you morons all stayed with Reddit.

"Oh look an Enlightened Centrist post. I thought you morons all stayed with Reddit."
Thank you for proving my point. And in such a colorful way!
- Your point is moronic. You guys think you're being reasonable and finding the middle when all that's happening is you're being pipelined into fascism with some extra steps.

I'm the main character, how could I ever be on the bad side?

You're not, boss. You're my childhood friend that saved me from a gang of rabid wombats and I would follow you forever using my unique skills to defeat your enemies in turn based combat.

For people who don't want to click on the link:

The top part of the meme is actually a reason I like instances that don't defederate from other instances. It allows me to see what those I disagree with and/or just don't like might be saying/thinking at a certain period.

I too am an enlightened centrist, I must see both sides, for neither is annoying enough without the other
- In order to see the balance in all things I must accept the holocaust deniers and the Holocaust believers.
- Exits NPC Dialogue

it's simple, the guys I like are the good ones, and the ones I don't are bad.

I used to feel that way but man, after the 20th time in a row that someone either calling for nuance or unity with questionable individuals ended up being some sort of malefactor with an evil agenda has me completely burnt on thinking that way. You just have to accept that some people are irredeemable and not worth dealing with, and replace them with those who are actually out there for your best interests.

you either agree with me, or you're in the other tribe

Give it enough time and every instance is going to defederate with everything that has even slightly opposing view points. We will have federated islands because people would rather silence opposing thought than discuss something like a reasonable human being.

If you want to discuss healthcare, taxes, etc, I'm all for it, but if you want to discuss stripping rights away from people or harming them, or you can't have a conversation without using dog whistles or coded language, then we have nothing to discuss.
- Thank you. Denying people human rights and racism are not "differing opinions."
- I can tolerate a lot but I won't tolerate intolerance. If your side is intolerance, bigotry, hatred, and hurting people, then yeah I'll defederate my instance pretty damn quick.