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Well, you certainly have the personality type I’d expect from someone who frequents 4chan Edit:oof, checked his profile like he suggested and in just two pages

by lovich 3y ago

Well, you certainly have the personality type I’d expect from someone who frequents 4chan Edit:oof, checked his profile like he suggested and in just two pages of history he’s engaged in climate change denial and covid vaccine conspiracies. Buddy, I don’t think using 4chan to “train my brain’s spam filter” is working too well for you. You’ve got a mind so open your brain fell out.

Hitton 3y ago
Going through someone's comment history to find reason to engage in ad hominem attacks is exactly the type of personality of someone who I expect to frequent Reddit and reason why I switched to HN. Sadly, it appears that this malaise reached here as well.
- pyth0 3y ago
  This is not an honest or fair assessment, and adds nothing to the discussion. The person they are responding to invited exactly that to happen: > (Check my history if you don't believe me.)
- hersko 3y ago
  He literally said to check his history...
malfist 3y ago
I mean, he's literally saying the jews are responsible for bot farms and "offensive content". That's not the stance of someone rational.
- lovich 3y ago
  Yea, good point. I had missed his line about “country bordering Palestine”. The quip about downvotes exciting him is telling as well. Going against the common consensus can make you feel like you have hidden knowledge and you even could, but a certain type of personality gets addicted to that feeling and reflexively seeks to always go against any consensus, regardless of the facts
  - malfist 3y ago
    Oh I completely agree with your assessment. I was one of those people through my late teens and early 20s. Luckily I grew out of it and learned empathy. But not everyone is as lucky as I was.
  - hanselot 3y ago
    Isn't it tremendously exciting believing that you can see the pendulum's next reversal? At some point in life I hope that you find yourself on the precipice of life and death. Not as a threat or because I wish harm upon anyone. It is only when you are faced with that choice for real that you decide whether you want to be that sad person that allows others to dictate their emotional state. Nevertheless, you are right. And so I have burned my fingers plenty. Due to circumstances beyond my control, I learned at a young age that I am to be the universal asshole, and for a very long time I was not okay. It took a substantial part of my life to get to a point where I am able to be okay with that. As for others, they rarely understand why I am the way I am, and that too is okay. We are all here to grow and eventually realise that we all need each other to survive, so we compromise, we adapt, and we ignore the ugly parts of others so they will tolerate the ugly parts of ourselves. I feel like a guru now, anyways I'm going to bed. Enjoy
    - lovich 3y ago
      Bruh I have been in multiple life and death situations, I didn’t come out of them thinking I was amazing for not being considerate of others. > Due to circumstances beyond my control, I learned at a young age that I am to be the universal asshole, and for a very long time I was not okay. No you’re not required to be the “universal asshole”. That’s a choice you are making everytime you have the chance to be better and decide to go with the easy path of being a dick. You have the agency to do otherwise and you don’t get to absolve yourself of those choices. You’re not a guru, you’re just anti social
- reaperman 3y ago
  There's a slight difference between "the jews" and "Israel". Obviously Israel would have some bot farms, though I don't think it's reasonable that they'd form the supermajority of bots on 4chan/etc. Also I think it's extremely generous to give this fellow the benefit of the doubt on "the jews" vs. "Israel", but that is what HN guidelines generally suggest.

by lovich 3y ago

Hitton 3y ago

Going through someone's comment history to find reason to engage in ad hominem attacks is exactly the type of personality of someone who I expect to frequent Reddit and reason why I switched to HN. Sadly, it appears that this malaise reached here as well.

pyth0 3y ago
This is not an honest or fair assessment, and adds nothing to the discussion. The person they are responding to invited exactly that to happen: > (Check my history if you don't believe me.)
hersko 3y ago
He literally said to check his history...

malfist 3y ago

I mean, he's literally saying the jews are responsible for bot farms and "offensive content". That's not the stance of someone rational.

lovich 3y ago
Yea, good point. I had missed his line about “country bordering Palestine”. The quip about downvotes exciting him is telling as well. Going against the common consensus can make you feel like you have hidden knowledge and you even could, but a certain type of personality gets addicted to that feeling and reflexively seeks to always go against any consensus, regardless of the facts
- malfist 3y ago
  Oh I completely agree with your assessment. I was one of those people through my late teens and early 20s. Luckily I grew out of it and learned empathy. But not everyone is as lucky as I was.
- hanselot 3y ago
  Isn't it tremendously exciting believing that you can see the pendulum's next reversal? At some point in life I hope that you find yourself on the precipice of life and death. Not as a threat or because I wish harm upon anyone. It is only when you are faced with that choice for real that you decide whether you want to be that sad person that allows others to dictate their emotional state. Nevertheless, you are right. And so I have burned my fingers plenty. Due to circumstances beyond my control, I learned at a young age that I am to be the universal asshole, and for a very long time I was not okay. It took a substantial part of my life to get to a point where I am able to be okay with that. As for others, they rarely understand why I am the way I am, and that too is okay. We are all here to grow and eventually realise that we all need each other to survive, so we compromise, we adapt, and we ignore the ugly parts of others so they will tolerate the ugly parts of ourselves. I feel like a guru now, anyways I'm going to bed. Enjoy
  - lovich 3y ago
    Bruh I have been in multiple life and death situations, I didn’t come out of them thinking I was amazing for not being considerate of others. > Due to circumstances beyond my control, I learned at a young age that I am to be the universal asshole, and for a very long time I was not okay. No you’re not required to be the “universal asshole”. That’s a choice you are making everytime you have the chance to be better and decide to go with the easy path of being a dick. You have the agency to do otherwise and you don’t get to absolve yourself of those choices. You’re not a guru, you’re just anti social
reaperman 3y ago
There's a slight difference between "the jews" and "Israel". Obviously Israel would have some bot farms, though I don't think it's reasonable that they'd form the supermajority of bots on 4chan/etc. Also I think it's extremely generous to give this fellow the benefit of the doubt on "the jews" vs. "Israel", but that is what HN guidelines generally suggest.