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It’s kind of saddening to see the witch hunt bandwagon in action.

One account says something another disagrees with, makes a big fuss, and everyone joins in. Or when a single account makes a blanket statement pertaining to someone else that everyone willingly regurgitates as objectivity…

I admire the people who don’t join into the dramatics much more than those who are involved.

Human beings are incapable of being right 100% of the time. I don’t think there two human beings in existence that would agree on every point.

Sometimes what some people view as, “calling someone out” truly appears as an inability to accept that some people have opinions and experiences different than our own.

A lot of disagreements are an incongruence between semantics and intention anyways.

The urge to prove others wrong is interesting. Are we not all learning?

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Alastair Thompson 1y ago

Alcohol doesnt help

Noshole 1y ago

Haven’t had a drink in 11 years 😂

Alastair Thompson 1y ago

Excellent, nevertheless I assume you are not a member of the witch hunting brigade

Noshole 1y ago

Unfortunately, I’ve joined in the past and been on the receiving end as well. It’s something I’m consciously attempting to avoid entirely, but I’m sure I will fuck up at some point as most do 🤷‍♀️

Thursday 5∞ 1y ago

How about calling scammers out? Is that a witch hunt or public service?

Noshole 1y ago

I would say a public service if there’s some legitimate proof of scam and the intent is to warn/help others be aware and not fall for it. I wasn’t really thinking about scammers when I was writing this.

Thursday 5∞ 1y ago

When people express opinions online they want feedback on some level. Since not everyone is Socrates, most of the times the arguments aren't that bulletproof. Hence the noise. However, desperately need to prove others are wrong is usually lack of self-love.

Noshole 1y ago

I agree with you on most of this except for how I’m interpreting the way you used to word, “feedback”.

Kind of depends by what you mean by feedback. If you’re using the definition as just pertaining to: reactions, boosts, zaps, and comments in this context, I disagree. If you mean feedback to include a more passive meaning as well (e.g., to share just because you think someone may like it or learn from it), I totally agree. In general, I think people tend to share things publicly because they want people to see it or enjoy it, although there are some who have the intention of getting more obvious attention like comments and zaps.

I’m glad that you mentioned Socrates because he once said, “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”

Thursday 5∞ 1y ago

Feedback as response that would lead to learning something new. Literally everyone I've met so far, regardless of IQ, wealth or social status, is stuck on a deep question or series of questions. You're likely a piece of the puzzle if not the entire puzzle for them to solve their dilemma or the other way around. That's why I encourage useful arguments. It's likely that more cam benefit from it.

corndalorian 1y ago

Noshole 1y ago

Yeah I know. Why do you think I’m in here? Jessica told Philip that Kelly poops standing up. Now fucking Phil is telling EVERYONE that works at this Wendy’s and first of all Kelly can’t even poop standing up because she’s in a fucking wheelchair to begin with and Jessica was just mad that Kelly got employee of the month again and now everyone is saying that Wendy’s is against people who sit to shit BECAUSE of Jessica and I don’t think it’s fair.

corndalorian 1y ago

I’ll put this on my “things to pick sides about on social media” list.

Noshole 1y ago

Please do, while remembering this:

just because I have a few profound moments, does not mean I am not still capable of roasting the ever-loving shit out of you back at any given moment. I am and forever will be a…

corndalorian 1y ago

Gotta keep us on our toes 🤝🤣

Noshole 1y ago

Anytime Philip 😂😭🤣

Sedj 1y ago

I feel you. And I may have overstepped, and if so I apologize. Information is just that, and what you believe and how you choose to use it are entirely up to you.

Stay curious, and keep learning!

Noshole 1y ago

Bahaha no certainly not you. You simply stated a different opinion, wasn’t argumentative or judgmental at all. Plus you literally have “disagreeable” in your profile so it’s what I assume I will get if I interact with you😂

Sedj 1y ago

🫂

(Just hard for me to see information presented as fact that I believe to be at best to be questionably true with plenty of nuance and discrepancy thrown in)

Disgreeable doesn't need to be disrespectful.

21 Stackage 🦡 1y ago

lol. I was just touching and smoking grass, then I checked my feed and it's like NOSTR RETARD ELITE UNITE

Herd mentality has always freaked me out on some level. That's why it took me a long time to adopt social media, and even then, it's not a huge part of my life. The best I can do is keep my own behavior in check. These witch hunts can get ugly

Noshole 1y ago

Yeah same here. I couldn’t really handle it at all for a while and had to step back. There is a natural impulse to be liked and going along with the status quo can get me liked, but it comes with a yucky feeling

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

it touched on issues that we all had some connection to... for me it was about the inner circle circle jerk, and she wasn't even thinking of that, but rather the big on social media famous names with their blogs and pods crowd who post but never engage, and another of my friends was mad about how some of her language was manipulative, that's 3 different spots on the elephant that i saw, and here is another, and i bet there is a dozen in total, that's why it went viral

Noshole 1y ago

Is it just me or do you feel like there are some people who are just a little too eager to jump in?

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

there always is, and some do it for their causes, and others do it for the lulz, and still others do it for the mental stimulation

people's models of the world are messed up, and what gets them straight is when they speak it out loud

if you believe something, but never say it, that day you finally say it, you realise that you had been making decisions all that time without actually understanding what you thought you believed