If you think people screeching, celebrating, frothing at the mouth, and advocating violence is “popular sentiment” then you’re part of the goddamned problem. The lynch mob mentality around here is sickening.

Fantastic use of X’s 😆 Well done.

If that were to happen, it’d only be for tech companies, not people. lol.

To be fair to OP, I didn’t even think of phrasing it that way when I was trying to parse it.

That’s a lot better put.

I’m pretty sure your heart is in the right place, but your argument is a little confusing.

The first paragraph clearly states that you believe sexual attraction is not a choice, and yet your argument is that “it’s not a choice” is counter-productive.

If I understand it correctly, you’re basically saying to re-frame the “it is a choice” narrative into something that affects straight people who oppose LGBT+ rights because they believe it is a choice that can be made?

e.g. If you’re straight and then one day “choose” to be gay, but LGBT+ rights have been abolished, then the government has taken away your right to choose?

If I’m understanding correctly, all other points aside, it may be too confusing to have any good/meaningful impact.

I would highly encourage anyone who feels sympathetic to this comment to read through the comment history and modlog of the person who made it before voting.

Combative, promoting violence, and generally using the Palestinian crisis to universally bash anyone they disagree with about anything while also derailing unrelated conversations. But yeah, it’s the mods who are the problem. 🙄

If my instance ever gets sync’d back up where I can interact in something approximating real-time, I may make that happen lol.

I think the distributed nature of the Fediverse is a big part of it. Lot of moderation policies at play, on a lot of different instances and some allow some real jerks to flourish and spill out elsewhere. I have zero tolerance for any of that garbage and am very quick with my block/ban buttons, but those are only effective on my own instance or the few communities I moderate outside that.

OP, best I can suggest is to report them. Most of the communities I interact with are pretty responsive to those kinds of reports and similarly don’t tolerate it. Mods, unfortunately, can’t read every comment and often rely on reports to know when to look deeper/take action.

And don’t feel bad about blocking the jerks. There’s a lot of them, lol.

Is it weird that I read your reply in Frasier’s voice?

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Yeah, I got that from the post, and I appreciate it. Which is why I’ve chosen to leave it up. It’s certainly an unpopular opinion based on the types of comments I’ve seen elsewhere, it’s not calling out anything specifically, and the message is important.

If you want to edit it to be more generic, that’d be cool. Otherwise, I’m just gonna watch to make sure the discussions/comments don’t go off the rails. When the new mod team took over, we all agreed we should leave politics at the door since it’s everywhere and sometimes you just need a reprieve.

Not sure where the line is for that, exactly, but I’m willing to allow some generic, good-faith discussion once in a while. May need to chat with the other mods to see how they feel about it.

For the record, I agree with everything you’re saying.

As a mod, I have to say “Rule 1: No Politics”.

That said, I’m going to allow this as long as it remains civil and discussion are in good faith. That that said, other mods of the community may disagree and remove it.

Because that would greatly harm accessibility for the visually impaired.

And if you wanted to adhere to accessibility guidelines for the conversational images, you’d need to add alt text to them. But then the ML models can train on that, so you’re back to square one.

We did discuss that, but figured it might be too confusing. Plus, with the federation delays that were happening yesterday, didn’t want to take the risk.

Just assume the new signage isn’t here yet lol

Lol. Only the post submissions are expected (though not required) to be Popular for today. Comments, as usual, are open season.

I don’t know if it was intentional on OP’s part, but our April Fool’s Day rules are in effect at the moment, so posts are expected to be “Popular Opinions” .

More like a parasite since it’s competing with the rest of your body for that oxygen.