Flat Earth is exactly tantamount to claiming that ADHD doesn't exist or that climate change isn't real – in fact, it's actively far less rooted in reality than either of those two already incredibly dumb takes.
By this logic, anyone on /c/ADHD has to debunk someone dropping in every once in a while (because it can't be persistent, but the admins won't define what persistence is) and saying that ADHD isn't a real thing. Or /c/climate has to listen to speeches about how the Earth isn't really warming and this is just like that "fake" ozone scare! (Nah, wait, that's solarpunk whose administration is actually sensible in this respect.) Or we at /c/vegan have to attentatively listen and refute people coming in and saying that needlessly murdering animals is super cool and good actually (a very healthy thing for a vegan community). All relevant; all asinine.
You mean like LW ToS 8.0 against misinformation? So interesting that as soon as the head admin steps down, this ridiculous bullshit crops up. Sounds like he was holding back the floodgates from the other admins' worst impulses, like the one a few months ago who briefly overtook an entire community because what they were saying agreed with science but hurt his fee-fees.
And yet Amaze on F-Droid is probably a better product.
"Another day has passed and I still haven't used the notion that the height of something on a slope is equal to the horizontal distance from the start of the slope times the steepness of the slope plus the initial height of the slope off the ground." I swear people treat math as something you explicitly need to sit down and write the equations for to get any use out of instead of just, like, them being useful to make you a more logical, well-rounded thinker. It's like thinking the sole point of reading Of Mice and Men in 8th grade is so that you can randomly recite quotes from it years later.
The next commenter stated: "The ruling class don’t waste their time distancing themselves from qanon, they focus on furthering their class interests and emiserating the poor." Distancing themselves includes calling them out. So it sounds to me like they're saying we need to be pragmatic like the ruling class and not distance ourselves from tankies, which is absolutely not something I'm ever going to do for those slimeballs. Actively doing it like some sort of performance apropos of nothing? Sure, maybe not. But if a tankie ever tries to associate with us, they need to be given the boot over their disgusting ideals.
Chicken and fish might be an exception (although in the case of the latter, you're destroying the world's oceans via depletion and plastic pollution, and in the case of the former, you're helping incubate what's probably going to become another worldwide pandemic).
I'm not taking cues from the far-right in not denouncing our worst aspects when I see them and letting them take up shop in our spaces. I don't see the need to whataboutism to them either and will call that out, but I don't want them in spaces I'm in either.
You had me until "tankies". Tankies are scum and don't need defending.
Someone somewhere would because UBI is the capitalist techbro idea of a social safety net; it's a band-aid that doesn't address the underlying problems in a similar way to how the ACA helps but in reality is a very center-right idea that doesn't address the underlying hypercapitalist healthcare system.
If you're eating beef, you're doing much more damage to the trees than reading books can ever realistically do.
Trump is 3 years younger and plainly aging worse than Biden.