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Eeeyep...and there's nothing we can do except be 'civil' to them.
Pitiful.
Have you seen the modlog for this person? Completely different writing style, different bizarre fixations, and constant bans are in their past. Truly a bizarre case.
https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=9454261
We all wear different faces and exhibit different behaviours in different places, so I'm not surprised with this. This forum's moderators protect this user, so the best you can really do is either take the bullet for the team and try to engage them with cold, hard logic, or just downvote and move on. This guy's trying to get Trump elected. That's all we need to say.
They apparently went a tear one day ranting about losers with AI girlfriends, as though that is a thing period.
No doubt about that.
Japan does have a thing going on with AI girlfriends, as well as other alternatives to dating. I've also heard that it's a thing with some in the Nerd community. I can understand why. Relationships are hard. Agreeing to share your life with a chick (or dude) is hard, requires lots of communication skills and some extra dose of humility. I can see why AI dates are more fun. The AI just knows how to string words together in a way dating has been done over history, in a way that doesn't involve the AI's hopes and dreams (which they don't have). I can see plenty of room to look at that and think it's a bit crazy. Heck, I think that's a bit strange. Then I shrug and go back to my RL wife and my day to day concerns and let people have their AI BFs or GFs and let it be. I got much more important things in my life to worry about...such as ensuring my wife isn't ground under the bootheel of oppression because the Dems aren't doing exactly what some whiny commentor on Lemmy wants them to do.
And this is why we need to work and work hard to ensure that BS like 'Dems no better than Reps' gets shut down every time it rears its ugly, stupid head on here (or anywhere else, for that matter).