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Back in the day facebook only had a like button and people demanded a dislike button. I don't know what facebook thought internally.

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Source. Found at this thread on ani.social's anime_irl.

Fixed now. Apparently adding or removing an upvote also works to force propagation. Easier than editing.

Huh, I was wondering why it wasn't getting many upvotes. Good catch. I tried editing the post to force propagation, since that sometimes works. Didn't work this time, so you're probably right about something actually breaking.

Interesting. I was thinking more of gray area stuff than outright lying, like playing up the importance of facts that support one's position and downplaying those that don't.

I read somewhere a while back that it's supposedly an evolutionary thing. In a social competition for resource allocation, confidently arguing your position regardless of its correctness is more beneficial than admitting you may be wrong.

It's probably exacerbated by the internet, where the relative anonymity and psychological disconnection further reduces any benefits to admitting to an error.

Fair enough.

I'm a man.

Me too. As are most people that you'll currently encounter on lemmy.

I don't expect sympathy, and when I get it I suspect an ulterior motive on the part of the person offering it.

I meant more in the sense of "sympathy strike" rather than "sympathetic ear". It's useful to be able to collaborate with others on shared goals, both in pursuit of the anarchist cause and of one's personal interests. An attitude of "only class matters, shut up about feminism or queer liberation or whatever" is detrimental to said collaboration.

I've never been particularly enthused about voting, but I don't think Obama-era arguments against it have aged well. At least in the US, the rise of Trump and the MAGA fascists makes "both parties are the same" sentiments look silly and out of touch. I read your follow-up too. While there is some truth to it, I don't think the argument is very solid. You seem to place a bit too much faith in liberal institutions as a bulwark against the fascists.

Overall, "voting isn't very effective, so what else are you doing" is a much better approach on this topic than "voting is bad so you shouldn't do it".

Not just tankies. Try telling a social-justice type that the only identity you give a shit about is class identity. It's hilarious.

I might be a social-justice type, then. Class reductionism is appealing in its simplicity, but I don't think it's very productive. Like, it's fine to focus on a particular thing that you care about, but being unsympathetic to the things that others struggle with isn't going to garner sympathy in return. I see the parallel that you're pointing out, but I don't think it's the same.

That's what bootleg fansubbed anime is for. :)

UwU

For me that's more of a social activity, though.

And that's fine for you. I just don't have the patience to sit through a video or audio lecture. I can read faster than these people can talk, and it's not like you can grep a video for keywords.

Oh yeah, I'm not trying to sell you on watching this one, just pointing out why some people do like video. The TL;DW is that leftists have never been unified, and never will be. We all have our differing goals and preferred means. Rather than trying to browbeat everyone into falling in line under a single unified ideology/party/platform/etc, we should just collaborate selectively on a per-project basis, and otherwise not worry about it.

Tankies are allergic to this notion, though.

Those on the right have their own splits and power struggles. Not everyone can be at the top of the hierarchy, after all. I think their advantage lies more in the fact that they have existing systems to rally around, whereas the left is trying to create something new.