I genuinely believe ACAB, and this news has me conflicted because my new friend seems really cool and super nice.

What you’re experiencing is cognitive dissonance. New information is clashing with your prior beliefs, leaving you with a choice: either update your beliefs or double down and lie to yourself even harder.

I don’t have anyone I’d want to remove and I’m also not so naive to think it wouldn’t come with major unpredictable consequences.

Finland.

19€/month for unlimited everything.

The only news site I follow is my country’s equivalent of the BBC, which leans left. Lemmy also skews heavily to the left, but the podcasts I listen to tend to be more centrist or center-right from my perspective - though some might argue that someone like Joe Rogan is far-right, which I disagree with.

I don’t align myself with any particular side. I form my opinions on an issue-by-issue basis rather than adopting the beliefs of “my side” - whatever that may be - as a package deal. I’ve been on the right, and I’ve been on the left, but I’ve since settled somewhere in the middle. I feel like I have a fairly accurate understanding of both perspectives and can often argue for most hot topics from either side’s point of view.

In my case it’s definitely DayZ. It’s an open-world zombie-survival multiplayer game.

I’m not a huge gamer myself but that one has always stood out to me above all the others. Once you’ve spent hours into a character you seriously don’t want to get killed. The map is massive and there’s only 60 other people at best so you often don’t even run into anyone - only hear the occasional gunshot in the distance. Wearing headphones lets you hear 360-degree sounds and the proximity voice chat I think is pretty cool feature too. It’s often jokingly called hiking simulator since you, for the most part, just run in a forests.

It’s also the only game where I’ve genuinely felt bad about shooting another player. Self-defence is a different case but just cold blood murder only because I can has multiple times left me feeling kinda shitty, so nowdays I just try and talk to people and then usually I get shot instead. I’ve also often felt absolutely terrified, hiding in a corner of a room in a house hiding from another player who I’ve just realized is close to me. I haven’t felt anything like that with any other game and have felt that DayZ is quite unique in that sense.

I must add, thought, that those flight simulator cockpits that people have built for themselves seem kind of intriguing too.

There are people on the far left who also hate jews just as passionately as the nazies do. The fact that you can’t even aknowledge this shows that you’re not a rational thinker and thus I don’t need to waste my time with you.

No, I’m saying you’ll find antisemites on both the far left and the far right - not that everyone on the far left hates Jews. Not everyone on the far right does either.

If you’re going to argue that there are no antisemites on the far left whatsoever, then there’s nothing to discuss here.

I feel like I’m the only one who shares things I’ve been up to recently and usually the responses I get back are passive at best. Then when I intentionally stop messaging them and waiting for someone else to say something first the group chat dies down for a week. I feel like it’s time to move on and leave these “friends” behind.

To me “rich” means someone whose passive income exceeds their spending.

So if I was rich I’d stop working and instead pursue my personal interests. Ideally I’d buy a property somewhere remote and close to water with a lot of land and start building a homestead of some sort.

Not a meme

I haven’t said a world about Israel.

I’m talking about the hatred of jews.

How does this relate to what I said?

The horseshoe theory holds true in many cases. Far ends of the spectrum have more in common with eachother than they do with the people on the middle. Antisemitism is a good example of something you find in both extremes. Calls for violence is another example.

Misinformation and disinformation are not synonymous.

Both of them. I take this kinds of things really hard and it takes me months to recover. I really hope I wouldn’t need to go thru that ever again.

More political opinions in the comic form please. This is exactly why I subscribed to this community.

I’m not sure space mining is what causes asteroids. Dinosaurs didn’t have a space program to my knowledge.

fanatics

Half of Lemmy users included in that group

One side has empathy. The other does not.

You generalized as if everyone on the left has empathy and no one on the right does. That’s simply not true. Group differences like this are often larger within the group than between them. While it might be true that, on average, people on the right are less empathetic than those on the left, it’s neither fair nor accurate to imply that one side has empathy and the other doesn’t.