This isn’t your college or work place break room. If people are saying something you disagree with you can just say it and you won’t be fired or ostracized for it. Yeah, people will probably get angry and say mean things to you but those are just words which can be ignored. Offence is taken, not given.
This is mostly for the lurkers who upvote unpopular opinions but don’t comment. You can speak up - you’re not alone.
Ironic to find someone saying this on Lemmy. It’s a miserable echo chamber here.
I can’t see down votes so I have nothing to lose!
That’s why I’m saying it. I often feel like I’m in the minority of people willing to speak up and get dogpiled for it. I posted this for the handful of people who upvote those comments.
I heard op of this post is the actual shooter in the murder of the Brian Thompson case. Sources say he went mad after his claim to be turned into a cat e girl was denied by united
Source-trust me bro
It’s just words on a screen. Easy enough to scroll on by without commenting. On my screen, upvote usually means ‘thanks for sharing’ rather then agreement.
I think working is bad for human health. I don’t get when people cheer about “creating workplaces”; that’s the worst that could happen. I think that humans will be kept as workforce for the economy as long as it is needed. So, economic growth leads to new workplaces and that’s a bad thing. I don’t get how people cherish growth.
Apart from that, there’s nothing that can be done to stop growth because growth is actually a very powerful spirit that is more powerful than human intervention, so it’s not like a society “chooses to grow” - that’s just an unavoidable necessity in my eyes.
Also, most human workers will (!) be replaced by AI in the next 15 years or so, and that’s a good thing. We need to de-normalize working for your basic human right to life, and establish Universal Basic Income - which will only be successful if enough people see that there’s not so much work to be done anymore and that creating actual social welfare programs is unavoidable. I’m mostly just waiting for this development myself because I do bad (and I mean, really bad) in the workforce of today.
On the other hand, no one is obligated to listen to you, and freedom of speech does not equal freedom from the consequences of said speech. If you voice an unpopular opinion, be prepared to not be popular.
Absolutely. In-fact I’d say most people aren’t blocking enough. If someone thinks of free speech as freedom to be an asshole then they should be blocked by everyone and left to shout into the void. However, I don’t think the unpopularity follows you outside the thread you were saying unpopular things at. The vast majority of people wont remember you.
No shit Sherlock. Who gives an ass about upvotes or downvotes? Just call things as you see them. If we all do the same, then eventually concensus zeitgeist will be more honest to the human condition
But you will be canceled. There are things like fediblock and block lists. Does not reaaly harm you but you get suppressed little by little.
On the internet you can just freely say what you really think even if you know it’s unpopular.
This advice is SUPER dependent on where you live. People in the Middle East have been executed for saying the wrong thing on the Internet. People in the UK have been imprisoned for saying the wrong thing online. Criticize social policy or Government in China and its quite possible you’ll be off to prison.
Even in the good Ol’ USA there’s limits to how free your speech can be online.
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A fine specimen
YSK too that not everything that’s said has equal value or merit.
This is important for both expressing and hearing/reading opinions.
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Is this official permission?
Lol sounda like it bro’s first time online
I’d rather be new and decent than experienced and dismissive - thank you for the perspective.
Pineapple is allowed on pizza
Fuck the haters, pineapple pizza is delicious.
That’s the spirit!
So are anchovies
You disgust me
That’s patently false.
Ironically one of the first comments I saw in this post was “deleted by a moderator.” I guess that person doesn’t get to say whatever they want.
Lemmy is only pseudonymous and is a bit of an echo chamber. Lots of things you write or otherwise share on the Internet (here or elsewhere) can come back to haunt you.
They did get to say what they wanted to, tho. Then it was deleted by someone else. I could say something that breaks the rules if I really wanted to. I would just have my comment removed and get banned 🤷🏻♂️
