• roux [he/him, comrade/them]
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        263 days ago

        Reminds me of arguing with my brother on social media. He’s a fucking idiot but when you say the right things, it triggers something in him and he starts using “ergo” instead of therefore randomly out of the blue.

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          223 days ago

          Scratched liberals try so very hard to seem unemotional and above it all when that happens, too.

          • roux [he/him, comrade/them]
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            In his defence, he’s not a scratched lib, he’s a fully out and proud fascist.

            E: correction, he’s a “libertarian”.

            • UlyssesT [he/him]
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              163 days ago

              I know the type; most of my biological relatives are like that, and what’s amazing is they’re ethnically descended a variety of people that i-am-adolf-hitler was happy to exterminate and a lot of them are now fucking fans of his. sus-soviet

              • ThermonuclearEgg [she/her, they/them]
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                a variety of people that i-am-adolf-hitler was happy to exterminate and a lot of them are now fucking fans of his

                Is this the type that hates themselves or the type that thinks they wouldn’t get exterminated because they’re One Of The Good Ones™?

                • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                  Is this the type that hates themselves or the type that thinks they wouldn’t get exterminated because they’re One Of The Good Ones™?

                  Both.

                  They’re the type that talk about what d-word-nazis-like much of their own ethicities are and they also talk about what they’d have done in WW2 to help “real good guys” win so that the d-word-nazis-like wouldn’t take over the world and ruin society with atrocities like… the Civil Rights Movement. all-cops-always-bastards scared-fash They’re that fucking awful. I flirt with opsec violation by stating that part of why I moved across the country was to never, ever, see any of them again and so that my offspring never have to in the first place.

      • REgon [they/them]
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        152 days ago

        Okay but also sometimes I get afraid of being misunderstood and I think a lot of ND people have that kind of experience and a sort of self-protection thing is then being very specific in your language

        • RiotDoll [she/her, she/her]
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          182 days ago

          I get like this too, but i think that’s different than pulling out $10 words to try and win an argument - autistic clarification is its own thing to me - I pretty readily switch to a more formal language if i feel misunderstood so i get it

          but also

          Think for a moment on the purpose of that utterance.

          is somebody trying to win

          • REgon [they/them]
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            132 days ago

            Oh yeah for sure, this dude is not doing the ND trauma response, this dude studied the blade.
            I guess I felt the need to respond to the tweet, which also covered the overly verboseness.

          • SadArtemis [she/her]
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            112 days ago

            This, also I’m just too verbose lea-smug but more than that I’ve always liked or had a tendency to fight fire with fire.

            Also maybe as a kid I wanted to be a lawyer, but that was more due to life reasons

  • Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them]
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    182 days ago

    I teach a writing class for (aspiring) scientists, and it is so hard to train some smart people out of writing this way. Some people just think that using big words and complicated sentence structure is the best (or only) way to communicate important ideas. The idea that you should always use the simplest language that will do the job takes a lot of getting used to for certain folks. The way some academics write does not help.

    • @DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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      102 days ago

      I think it comes back to media, the “scientist” in most films and tv shows will use big words to show how smart they are and these people internalise that idea.

      • @Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml
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        No, it’s mostly because STEM types (including me) have a lot to say (not necessarily insightful) but often lack the writing skills necessary to say them concisely because we focused on studying science instead of literature.

        Literary writers who don’t understand science and just make up mumbo jumbo have the exact opposite problem that we do.

  • ashinadash [she/her]
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    The whole thread, the entire thing that starts with that weirdo apologist getting banned, is an alltimer che-smile classic “iamverysmart”, in that thread, had a sensible chuckle.

    “The word is ‘gullibility’” killed me lmao

  • @DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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    92 days ago

    Sometimes I think about venturing onto .ml or .world or one of those other instances, then I just see…all of that and don’t bother. The smug redditisms, the trying to “umm acktually” their way out of supporting SA, the paragraphs upon paragraphs of fancy words that say nothing at all. The insane conspiracies about Hexbear…it’s all just so pathetic.

    • roux [he/him, comrade/them]
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      133 days ago

      Nope. Trotskyist with some influences from Bakunin. And in case anyone wants to whine against Trotsky, check rule #3 (No sectarianism) .

      Is it really sectarianism if it Trotsky and Bakunin though?

      • REgon [they/them]
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        102 days ago

        I posted a meme about sectarianism and Trotskyism and it spawned a very nice conversation. The general agreement was that light ribbing was almost always fine and it was okay to be a tiny bit meanier to trots because they’re dorks that split the party whenever they can.

        • roux [he/him, comrade/them]
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          52 days ago

          I think some light-hearted joking towards one another is expected. Real talk though, I get a little bit fighty and defensive when people start attacking anarchists when it seems out of malice.

      • @goferking0
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        it’s just them being so mean to me

        Funny how it’s always how they start off when banned

    • @goferking0
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      93 days ago

      I get the feeling lots of threads on that comm will end up just like that.

    • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]OP
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      32 days ago

      Thank you for posting the link so I didn’t have to. I thought it was funnier without context because the comment itself doesn’t reference anything outside of it