I notice that often (not always) inflammatory comments are written by those who frequent politics related communities.
In addition to being straight up antagonistic, the comments often are about labeling and categorizing everything. Like if someone posted a meme or made a joke. It can’t just simply be taken at face value. The commenter is compelled to categorize it, label it, assume there is an underlying agenda. It has to be Russian or Chinese propaganda, it’s far-left or far right, its LGBTQ related, it’s incel related, it’s promoting some agenda somehow.
When I go to check their profile it is very common that the individual frequently comments in politics related communities.
Man, not everything on the planet needs to be politics related. There’s not a deep state agenda for everything. Memes and jokes are sometimes dumb and silly and no one is trying to promote anything. There is actually a type of humor called Surreal humor or Absurdist humor which like sarcasm seems like a lot of people just don’t get.
Politics really rots people’s brains.
I block every single user who writes comments like that and nowdays I can pretty much gurantee that when I see a thread about one of these topics I’m not seeing even half of the replies because they’re almost exclusively from blocked users.
I’m seeing 3 out of 12 messages in this thread.
I don’t think it’s an unpopular opinion to hate people politicising everything - politics should stay in politics.
Sometimes you just want to chat stupid shit and get away from all that crap.politics should stay in politics.
Sometimes you just want to chat stupid shit and get away from all that crap.
Some folks can’t “get away from all that crap” because e.g. they’re a minority and their very existence is political.
That means what you wrote is an expression of your privilege, and is therefore itself a political statement.
While there is undeniable truth in what you say, I’d caution to remember that while politics dominating your life may be optional, its not for many. Trans people just trying to exist is seen as political, for instance.
While that is true, I don’t think those people should also be given Carte Blanche to turn everything political.
I get that they are extremely oppressed, and have all the right to fight against it, but I fail to see where a pirate flag is an Anti-LGBT symbol or a tranphobic icon, as I’ve seen some claim.
It’s not cart blanche to turn anything political. I’m just asking you (and everyone here) to recognize that somethings they may not think of as political already are. If you put yourself in the shoes of the person treating something as political and still come away thinking its unfounded, as in your pirate flag case, you’ve done what I’ve asked.
If you put yourself in the shoes of the person treating something as political
That is my usual Modus Operandi, specially because I know what it is like to be treated as nothing more than a meat bag, stripped of it’s humanity. I just think that some cases are taken way too further from what they are actually representing.
I feel called out.
When I go to check their profile it is very common that the individual frequently comments in politics related communities.
Do you check profiles on everyone that posts non-inflammatory comments too?
You’re basically asking “do you check for red flags on everybody who is not raising red flags?”
In comment threads, I usually only check post history for people I am considering blocking. It makes sense to check post history if people are instigating. If that person is just starting shit everywhere then there’s no reason to listen to them, but if they have a history of reasoned discussion then maybe what they say is worth considering. (I realize how ironic this is coming from somebody who has almost no comment history on a new account)
That’s fine if you’re just trying to avoid whatever you consider ‘red flags’.
But your post is drawing a correlation with other post activity and if you want to do that accurately you need a broader sample set.
Yes, this is the “base rate” fallacy. You may find the “red flags” your looking for, but they may actually be more common among other commenters that you don’t examine.
Simply, what is the “base rate” of those red flags on average? You have to examine a random sample of commenters to know that.
Almost none of your unpopular opinions are opinions, or unpopular.
Yeah, at best they’re just observations. This is more appropriate for shower thoughts, but they’d remove it for being political…
Ironic, yes?
Ironic, yes?
No. OP literally just does blog posts. They should be on kbin microblogging, or start an actual blog. I don’t even disagree with their posts, but they have no idea what “unpopular” or “opinion” means.
they have no idea what “unpopular” or “opinion” means
Opinions do not have to be pre-fixed with “I think that”, “I feel that”, “It is my opinion that”, or “IMHO” to be opinions. Take the current post title and add “I think that” to the beginning. Is it an opinion now? Yes!
Here I will do it for you:
I think that the people who write the nastiest, inflammatory comments on Lemmy are usually (not always) frequent commenters in politics related communities.
Read that and tell me that is not an opinion.
You should be able to read the post title and tell that it is not a fact.
It’s still not an unpopular opinion, it’s just…. An observation from your perspective. Most people here agree with it.
So how does it belong here?
Politics makes people fucking crazy
Alternatively, crazy makes people fucking political.
Also very true
