EABOD25

Improve your empathy. It sounds hard, but when you focus on body language it gets a lot easier. People will give away what their goal is before they even spit a word. You can say "Hey" to them and that is most of the time all you need.

My goal is to have a chuckle or general discussion despite what side people are on. I believe light teasing of the other side (and even your own side) opens serious dialog because you are acknowledging your side is imperfect, just like the other side. If you tease the other side and take yourself too serious, then that's bullying.

Second, and with all due respect, everything you say can be easily summarized. And please don't misunderstand, I believe you're absolutely right in everything you have said, and I appreciate your detail to make sure you're not misunderstood. However, every comment has been an essay. That takes so much mental energy for you. I can respect the effort you put into your comments because, godamn, it takes a lot with how much work you put into them, truly kudos.

However, I see it as building a front page for a resume. If you put too much meat onto the plate, then they're never going to eat the potatoes. You want a filet mignon with a baked potato. I absolutely mean no offense. Just wanted to say that you could say the same thing with less words

I feel bad about instance blocking though. Like I did it with HB and pre-emptively grad, but it just feels like I'm cutting a whole people off because a minority group pissed me off. I'll probably give it a week or so and unblock the instances because there's absolutely no way that everyone sucks there

I first thought that if they helped fund Lemmy, then I'd rather not be here much longer to support their accomplishment, but also I own a Volkswagon so it'd be very hypocritical of me to do that. I agree that we just work on making Lemmy better and they lose power of their own chaos

They also apparently shared my post on The Dunk Tank and they doing about the same. They can dish it out, but not take it

I'll just leave it be. Honestly the whole situation took on a life of it's own. I expected like 1 or 2 people having the same experience. Not a 880 comment megathread lol

I can change the wording of my original post if need be if it's going to be used as an education tool... As long as I get concensus to do so

Just saw this comment. Yes it was silly, and in no way meant to be taken literal. Looking at the history of those states that were under the USSR, putin is trying to keep control of them

You could just talk to me directly, but fine. I'll delete the post

Agreed. I tried to make due, but I won't hold it against the mods if this gets deleted. Just needed to get it out

I see it as the neonazi movement in the US in late 90s and early 2000s. They want to be edgy, but don't have a significant structure to actually do anything important. Around 2006 I ended up stealing a knife from a neonazi that came in to the restaurant that I worked at. It was a Mexican restaurant btw lol

I don't have the same area code as the area I live in so it's pretty simple to weed spam calls out