SCB comments on Unity temporarily closes offices amid death threats following contentious pricing changes

[–] SCB@lemmy.world -5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

People who hold different opinions and worldviews than you

"Threatening to kill people and not wanting people to threaten to kill people are equal worldviews, actually."

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[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

Strawmanning and attacking #EatTheRich memebros actually is equivalent to enabling actual violence by condemning anyone who opposes nonviolence, actually, and it's why you all are finally, finally being downvoted and rejected by everyone else. Ackshually

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[+] SCB@lemmy.world -7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

No I'm being downvoted because gamers have really rustled jimmies, and this place has a lot of commie-leaning people.

Wanna know how I know? The actual rest of society thinks this is a terrible thing to do.

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[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

And it couldn't possibly be that you're just wrong.

Wanna know how I know? Because I actually think and don't resort to blatant bandwagon fallacies like you do. Actually recent polls have even shown the number of Americans who agree with sentiments like #EatTheRich or who accept political violence is rising, and it's more Democrats doing it than Republicans, so you're doubly wrong.

Take your status-quo-or-die bullshit elsewhere. We've had enough of it. No one has to agree with you on the issue. No one has to agree with you on nonviolence or political violence or any sort of -ence. People have the right to feel the way they want to feel and as someone with a vested stake in a liberal democracy that pretends to care about such things, by extension you have to respect that.

Let it go.

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[–] SpookyUnderwear@eviltoast.org -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Thanks for the link. Some of those results were interesting. Question. Your link says that 84% disagree with the statement that "political violence against those I disagree with is acceptable". How have you concluded this is "rising"? What is your base of comparrison?

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[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

It was lower and now went up to like, 16-17%.

In a normal society, that number should be close to zero not because of propaganda, but because people genuinely are happy in the society they're in.

Which clearly is not happening.

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[–] SpookyUnderwear@eviltoast.org -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I'm assuming you read this elsewhere because your source does not have a comparrison number. So at present, there is nothing to indicate the number is rising. For all we know the number of people who agree with that type of violence could have been sitting at 16% for many years.

It isn't realistic to expect the number to be zero. There will always be radicals. Always. Even if we somehow create a perfect utopia, there will always be a handful of malcontents.

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[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

You literally could have just Googled it instead of trying to bad-faith your way to the position you want to believe, but whatever, I Googled it for you, there you go. The one poll I posted is not the only one that shows the trend. Civil war's a-brewing, fren.

I also didn't say zero, I said close to zero. Jesus Christ, if you're going to speak in bad faith you could at least try to be subtle about it. At least the assholes in the other threads would have the decency to use a motte-and-bailey. You're just lazily throwing out strawmen and obvious garbage.

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