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Dude, let's be real. I annoy you.
No matter what I post, you’re always gonna be right there with some remark about copy-paste or calling it obsessive, blah blah blah.
You don't like me, and your bias is loud and clear. No answer I give will ever satisfy you because it’s not even about what I’m posting—it’s about the fact that I’m here, unapologetically doing my thing.
And that’s fine. I’m not going anywhere. You can keep getting annoyed or just move on. It’s your choice, just like it’s my choice to post what I want and vote for whoever I believe in. You can’t silence people just because they make you uncomfortable.
I'm still here and I'm gonna say here. :)
Oh, you’re not important enough to even annoy me. It’s not like I’ve missed our interactions while you were “blocking” me.
But again, when you see someone acting so bizarrely, you do want to get some sort of an explanation for their obviously ostracizing and counterproductive behavior. Something honest. Something real. But you can’t do honest and real can you?
It’s so sad really. There’s no coordinated campaign against you despite your obvious martyr complex and complaints to the contrary. No one cares per se that you’re here. Your posts and comments are a sometimes unavoidable inconvenience - like accidentally stepping in dog shit on a public sidewalk. You don’t like it, you have to clean it up, but mostly you’re just wondering what kind of person leaves this shit lying around?
You mean like posting articles that I'm interested in, right?
Really? Because this poster just said I "endure near universal hate all the time." https://lemmy.world/comment/12438004
Was he right or are you right?
And hey, if you block me, then you don't have to see my comments or my posts. :)
But you yourself have claimed you aren’t personally invested in a bunch of the articles you posted but thought others might be - usually whenever anyone calls you out. And posting robotically about the same subjects again and again in spaces where they are obviously not well received is weird. Diving deep into discussion threads you haven’t been taking part in to post spammy copypasta is bizarre. 1200 Posts and 2300 comments in less than 45 days is disturbing behavior. Sealioning so hard by calling everyone “friend” and not honestly engaging in discussions is not normal.
And please tell me you can tell the difference between “coordinated campaign against you” and enduring “universal hate”. It’s really not hard to see they’re not the same thing. If you’re pissing off most people every day, maybe most people aren’t the problem?
So, are you suggesting we should only post articles that everyone agrees with? You’re basically asking for an echo chamber, right? Personally, I prefer diversity in political opinions, but it sounds like you’d rather stick to just one side. Oh well.
I’m not required to explain anything to you. I post what I want, where I want, and when I want—there’s no rule against it on Lemmy. If you don’t like it, you’re welcome to block me. Simple as that, friend. :)
Once again you put words in someone else’s mouth. Try reading what I wrote again and tell me where I said anything you just said I said.
And there’s no rule against me constructively and respectfully calling out bullshit. It really is so odd that you act so obviously fragile that you can’t engage in any real or honest discussion, and instead fall back on copy pastes from other responses, what would appear to be walls of text written by an LLM, and/or the tried and true “nuh-uh! You are!”
If you find my critiques to be distasteful, you are of course free to block me again. It might be for the best considering how you react to essentially every bit of online interaction.
I'm under no obligation to explain anything to you, friend. Thank you!
Yay!! See there? Then no reason to worry about my posts. And no need to worry about the fact that I'll keep posting. Thank you!
Who said I was worried? You keep putting words into other people’s mouths. Or intentionally being obtuse. It’s almost like you’re repeatedly not engaging in good-faith and with respect.
Oh ok, so then you're fine with me posting what I want to, when I want to, and as many times as I want to. And you're fine with me voting for whoever I want to.
See? We are friends. Glad to hear it!
I never said I wasn’t fine with it. What I asked was about your motivation for doing so. You know, in the spirit of engaging in good faith, as the rules outline. Because you often receive feedback that your posting and commenting certainly don’t appear to be in good faith. It’s almost like anyone who sees your username more than a couple times immediately clocks that you are not acting in a genuine manner. A bit like the “uncanny valley”. A bit abnormal.
I’m not obligated to explain myself to you. If people don’t want to read my posts, they can simply ignore or block me. Thanks!
Or they can respond to you and tell you what they think! Why are you trying to quiet voices you don’t agree with?
Sure, and plenty of people respond and tell me what they think. And it's up to me if I want to reply or not. See how that works?
I've never said they couldn't. In fact, in my own community plenty of people hate me and call me names. And I leave their posts up. Feel free to take a look for yourself.
Doesn't really fit the narrative you are trying to create tho, huh?
And any time anyone says something you immediately cry and whine about how they’re trying to oppress you.
And yet you never honestly engage with anyone.
I have no narrative, just observations that anyone can make when viewing your strange and disingenuous behavior.
We're still friends though, right?
So needy, aren’t you? Or just completely disingenuous and looking to make others uncomfortable.
But no, as I’ve stated before, you don’t make me feel anything.
Well, I think we're friends. So yay!
I’d agree with you, but then we’d both be wrong
Close enough, friend! :)