• chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    I appreciate the often simultaneous complaints that:

    • A) The protests weren’t impactful enough
    • B) The protests should just end already because they’ve been negatively impacted

    Like, guys… either be nihilists or reactionaries, but don’t try to be both at once. Strikes hurt everyone; that’s the point.

  • minorsecond@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I agreed with the mods in /r/gis that there should be an indefinite blackout and got downvoted. Some person even called me “fucking stupid.” That place is such a toxic dumpster fire. I’m happy for kbin/lemmy.

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    1 year ago

    They are delusional. It’s no wonder the internet became so consolidated when them goons lack critical thinking. People just settle with whatever shit they have now instead of demanding a better product. Sad times.

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    1 year ago

    I heard lots of very similar comments about protests in France, always from people who didn’t even join the protests in the first place, too.

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      1 year ago

      Amusingly, among the very first posts to /r/france once it went back up was a call to reinstate the blackout indefinitely.

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      1 year ago

      I think that’s a big thing. The people who most strongly supported the blackout largely left or at least use Reddit a lot less.

      Heck, one sub I use frequently, the Stardew valley sub, apparently did a poll yesterday (and only yesterday) about next steps. But I was treating the 14th as a day to still stay off Reddit (it wasn’t really clear exactly when the blackout should have ended), so I didn’t get to even have a say in the poll despite using the sub frequently. I only even saw it because of a post announcing the results (majority wanted further blackout but it needed 2/3s).

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        That poll sounds very disingenuous lol, why make a poll during the short time where most of the users won’t be able to take it ? Especially when to get to the absolute majority, you’d need the people not able to take it to come in and vote. To me, it sounds like they simply wanted to “appear” democratic but didn’t actually want to go through with possibly losing the sub.