feel that.

same - but be sure to contribute to the niches here when you can, so the people from there have a reason to start coming here :)

i personally don’t mind, but i think some communities have rules about not reposting from reddit

https://youtu.be/1hc52_PWeU8

link to the video, for anyone curious :)

and a link to the follow-up video as well!:

https://youtu.be/PGWpGMrroi8

proper moderation? in my good christian marketplace?!

!hmmm@lemmy.world

this is so interesting. thanks for sharing!

(disclaimer: this particular lemming might not actually be a baby lemming. but they are adorable, so therefore, baby.)

and .pizza, .gay

there are lots of fun ones

i don’t know if this has actually been helpful (i haven’t been actively learning new languages due to chronic illness), but i’ve listened to my favorite songs in other languages (disney songs are great for this, probably broadway songs as well)

and when i realize i understand a certain line, i get that sweet, sweet dopamine hit, too

i suspect it’s been somewhat helpful because the languages seem more “familiar” to me, even if i still can’t fully understand them

honestly… ads wouldn’t be so bad if they weren’t so annoying

It really depends a lot on context and situation, ideally it’s someone you already have at least SOME passing acquaintance with so they give you a chance

okay, so this won’t work with all the social media maga telling me to kill myself.

i’ve done all those things as in person i don’t like being confrontational. yeah, it makes people adore me and say im the sweetest. never changes them though.

a little observation. your comment history says you’re a cis man. i think that might be part of why it’s been more effective for you to change minds. what you say has more weight.

never said there aren’t terrible leftists. there are plenty. people in general are terrible.

statistically speaking, right wingers are worse. this is factual. don’t gaslight me.

i’m afraid of confrontation and i’m friendly enough that horrible people feel comfortably trauma-dumping on me, but they never feel comfortable changing.

i tend to be a pretty validating person and they love that. but the one time i call them out on something they need to do better, their defenses go up. no one is actually interested in being a good person, they just want to be told they’re a good person.

i’m disabled and i get assigned caregivers from a local agency. a caregiver casually told me she’s a pedophile (trump supporter too btw). people are too comfortable around me.

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i’m curious how you did it. i tried being nice, they’d just attack me.

i struggle to want to be nice to people who want me dead. who are loud about how i am lazy and stealing their tax dollars.

a former maga friend - someone who i was “nice” to until the one time i wasn’t, even though he was allowed to say all the shitty things he wanted - told me i was a waste of space. he verbally attacked me over my health issues knowing how sensitive a subject that is.

i don’t see them as people tbh. if me saying that validates their opinion that i’m evil, maybe they should start acting like people instead of monsters.

they also, as a group, tend to be more likely to be offending pedos, rapists, domestic abusers, and mass shooters. which for me reinforces the idea that they aren’t people.

copied from another comment in this thread, maybe this helps? https://refuseuline.com/#resources

i agree, the point of my post is to clarify the misconception, especially for anyone who may have donated in the past and felt guilty about it

yeah? never said otherwise.

you’re right, i fixed it! my bad 😅

in the USA

til lemmy lets you edit post titles, very cool. i fixed it, thanks!