I love the fact that people with different opinions are all allowed here.

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[–]zyxzevn🐈‍⬛ 31 insightful - 5 fun31 insightful - 4 fun32 insightful - 5 fun -  (26 children)

I noticed that in Reddit, I got downvoted each time I had a different idea.
Politically, It was also changing depending on the time-zone.
When dealing with science, it was being downvoted (or banned) when the evidence broke with the popular theories.
The downvoting really reduces the diversity in thinking, and the progress in knowledge.

[–]PencilPusher55 37 insightful - 3 fun37 insightful - 2 fun38 insightful - 3 fun -  (7 children)

Yep. Reddit actually made me feel as though I was going insane. When Covid-19 first hit everyone was freaking out at those on the beach in Florida. "Murderers! Killers! What about the elderly?". When the protests started and people took to the streets I brought up the fact that they were against mass gatherings just a few weeks ago. I was obliterated by downvotes and told "Haha! Someone is too afraid to leave their home! Are you trying to make us as paranoid as you?".

I mean, they're about as anti-science as one could get.

[–]Rationalmind 23 insightful - 2 fun23 insightful - 1 fun24 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, with Covid and the protests, I realized that humans have incredibly short attention spans and are unaware of their own hypocrisy.

[–][deleted] 16 insightful - 2 fun16 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

I will say the protesters are a lot more willing to mask than your basic Karens and Chads going to Kroger to pick up a six-pack.

The mask doesn't protect you from others but to some valuable extent it protects them from you. Everyone saying "I'mma go barefaced" is saying "fuck you, I don't care if you die," and I think a lot of them know it. I know this thing hasn't killed most people who've caught it, but when it does kill, it kills badly, and when it just makes you sick you could be looking at permanent lung damage, a heart attack, a stroke, a lost limb (! yes! someone got a clot in his leg and bam, amputation necessary), and all sorts of other weird shit and then, on top of that, it can take you three months or longer to actually feel all the way better. What reasonable person wants to do that to another person? And dear Chuck, WHY?

I still didn't go to the protests though. I tried to be supportive in other ways because face it, the police aren't even all the way decent to white people, and there are some jobs that can't afford to have bad apples in them. Like airline pilots, as Chris Rock famously pointed out.

Anyway. Not really trying to start a debate, just dissipate a bit of echo chamber. Ignore if you like.

[–]voi_che_sapete 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I agree with you and wish the left had taken the time to articulate why the protests were important despite the risk.

[–]fred_red_beans 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

There is no evidence that the wearing of masks prevents the spread of flu in the general population. There is evidence that Face Masks Pose Serious Risks to the Healthy.

By not wearing a mask, I am not saying "fuck you, I don't care if you die". I am saying I see no evidence that wearing masks is needed and that I do not wish to engage in a mob mentality of conformity and hysteria.

Here are 12 Experts Who Question the Coronavirus Pandemic

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    [–]fred_red_beans 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Yea, I've been wearing a mask at places that require them. While I think it's silly, it's more a mere inconvenience than anything else. I may have to draw the line at some point, depending on what that next "thing" is, but the wave of mob mentality is upon us- just like 9/11, Iraq's WMDs, Gaddafi, and supposed chemical attacks in Syria. The authorities that people let define their worldview say it is so, so it must be...

    [–]copenseethe 11 insightful - 4 fun11 insightful - 3 fun12 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

    The media is broadcasting "expert opinion" that the protests were not causing new infections. That was a headline in my local paper a few days ago. It defies common sense to say that laying on the beach is dangerous but standing in a crowd and yelling carries no risk.

    [–]GeomaticsDecoy 30 insightful - 8 fun30 insightful - 7 fun31 insightful - 8 fun -  (5 children)

    I got downvoted into oblivion on reddit for correcting someone on the basic physics of gravity. Which is frustrating because I tutor physics in my spare time.

    [–]zyxzevn🐈‍⬛ 6 insightful - 15 fun6 insightful - 14 fun7 insightful - 15 fun -  (0 children)

    I read it as: "in my space-time"

    [–]Papitas 5 insightful - 9 fun5 insightful - 8 fun6 insightful - 9 fun -  (3 children)

    Gravity is just a theory, anyway /s

    [–]teelo 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

    Sometimes I think that we're not being pulled down as we are being pushed.

    [–]Mouldy_Badger 3 insightful - 5 fun3 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

    We're all retarded by the Earth!

    [–]Goingoutforawalk 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    You only fall after walking off a cliff when you realize it. :)

    [–]bagano1 15 insightful - 3 fun15 insightful - 2 fun16 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

    On many boards, including IMDB, some of us got together and pointed out that a lot of the posters were fronting and really didn't know the things they claimed to know. One bike mechanic guy said he got run off a subreddit for disagreeing with other posters about something when he worked in the industry for years.

    They are all mostly high school or college kids. It's sad.

    [–]PencilPusher55 10 insightful - 5 fun10 insightful - 4 fun11 insightful - 5 fun -  (1 child)

    I am, by no means - attempting to make fun of someones appearance but go to reddit/r/selfies. It is exactly as you'd imagine. Not even saying they're unattractive but they're actual caricatures of what you'd imagine a social justice warrior to look like.

    [–]Turnaround 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    /r/selfies

    Had no idea this sub existed.. I can't think of any healthy reason why anyone would post no context selfies of themself online for strangers.

    [–]GConly 11 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

    Which makes you wonder how chasing off the non SJW crowd will work out financially for Reddit. College students and high schoolers aren't known for their purchasing power.

    If the ads there don't lead to the same level of revenue, advertising will start moving to where the grown ups with cash hang out.

    [–]theFriendlyDoomer 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    I think downvoting has its place -- for one, it facilitated different subs in creating separate cultures. I think it was a good system, that made for an experience I enjoyed more more than Twitter or Facebook where it appeared every jerk could feel they had triumphed with a few people hitting "like."

    With that said, the costs of echo chambers are real, and the new attempts to push all dissenting ideas out of social media (both from corporate culture and "woke"-ism) has now made the risks higher than the rewards. Moldbug is right about how progressivism is a power grab, his concept of the cathedral. (Although if you want to see a hit piece on conservative culture, I've got that too).

    [–]Rationalmind 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    I don’t understand why activists even think companies have some set of moral values. They have to be a chump to think Nike or whatever company supports BLM. Nike only cares about one thing — $$$$.

    [–]theFriendlyDoomer 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    I'm not seeing the connection here, but I 100% agree with you.

    The next step for some people is to see the political parties as a companies.

    [–]SaidOverRed 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Since the ranking is comparative, the ability to push up content is the same as the ability to push it down (aside from brigades targeting entries, since they can't upvote everything else to compensate). That anti-brigading is not to be overstated. But the inflation effect is still there, even if smaller. But this seems inevitable when each person has the same voting weight.

    [–]Pants 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Even worse, too many down votes on a comment meant you had to wait ten minutes to comment.

    [–]Tom_BombadilBombadildo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    The downvoting really reduces the diversity in thinking, and the progress in knowledge.

    Which slows technological progress, and reinforces the status quo.

    Surprisingly, this is the current goal; per the Rockefeller Foundations Agenda.

    COVID AGENDA: HARRY VOX: THE ELITE'S PLAN FOR 2020 IN 2014 (ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION "LOCK STEP")

    You've probably already seen this bro, so I'm including it for those who haven't.

    It arranges many of the current puzzle pieces in what appears to be a chaotic world. In reality, it suggests a much bigger picture/plan.
    Scary stuff.

    [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    And you were also down-voted when the one and only algebraic supporting your theses got down-voted.

    So we're in the the same boat. Now is the time you realize this simple fact rather than debating what "hyper" in original Greek actually carries as a meaning.