• lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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    11 months ago

    This whole thread is a great example of why I’m continually disappointed with Lemmy. Half the comments are just some variation of “capitalism bad”. I hate capitalism as much as the next guy, but it sure would be nice if people would stop grinding their axes for a few minutes to talk about the actual subject of the post. Or just not comment at all if they don’t have anything relevant to say.

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      11 months ago

      This is something I’ve been thinking for the past few weeks, and one of the reasons I come here rarely now. Every second post I come across somehow includes topics like capitalism, liberalism, Biden, or Trump. While I don’t have issue with such content, my primary intention here is to find humorous content, enjoy cat videos, and perhaps read interesting stories.

      Lemmy initially lived up to expectations, but it has been on a downhill since then. It appears that the average users have shifted nack to Reddit. What remains here now is a politically retarded group of individuals.

      A few days back, when GTA VI trailer was released, I came to Lemmy to see what people think of the game only to find everyone talking shit and out of context, while the entire reddit community was celebrating the moment.

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        11 months ago

        Counter-counterpoint: Capitalism isnt the source of every problem and sometimes there isnt even a problem.

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            11 months ago

            Cato_the_podasist did. The OP of this thread said that this post has nothing to do with capitalism and that we should therefore stop talking about it here. Cato_the_podasist argued against that saying that pointing out the source of the problem is always relevant, THEREBY IMPLYING that pointing out capitalism is always relevant (because capitalism doesnt have anything to do with this post specifically) so if its relevant here, then were is it not relevant?

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              11 months ago

              That’s implying that capitalism is the source of this problem, not every problem. Consider what they’re saying.

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                11 months ago

                (What I meant is: Capitalism is not relevant here. Maybe sometimes it is the root of the problem but not in every case (and certainly not in this one).