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ContrarianTrail

@ ContrarianTrail @lemm.ee

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Independent thinker valuing discussions grounded in reason, not emotions.

Open to reconsider my views in light of good-faith counter-arguments but also willing to defend what's right, even when it's unpopular. My goal is to engage in dialogue that seeks truth rather than scoring points.

  • Girl Talk

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  • The women in the cartoon are not being bitchy to eachother either, are they?

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  • It's a stereotype about women complimenting eachother while not actually meaning it. It's a joke. Look at the upvote / downvote ratio. Most people get it. You're in the minority here being offended by it. Recreational outrage so to speak.

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  • Why is it deeply misogynistic?

  • Elon Musk's X is losing users in the U.S., UK, and EU. X's own data proves it.

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  • Adblocker works on twitter too though, and I don't really mind Elon profiting from my use of Twitter anyway. People should be compensated for running social media platforms like twitter.

  • Elon Musk's X is losing users in the U.S., UK, and EU. X's own data proves it.

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  • I post gay porn. The number or right-wing rednecks that follow me with their public profiles is.. confusing.

  • Subscriptions Are Ruining Our Lives. Here's Why They're Everywhere Now. | You'll own nothing and you'll be happy!

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  • I tend to feel that if it’s a streaming service providing access to a wide range of videos, it could be argued that you don’t own them and, therefore, can’t download them either. However, you could still have the option to pay extra to actually purchase the video too. That money should go to the creator, though, who, of course, would also set the price. That could be free too. I, for example, have no issue with people watching my car repair 'tutorials' on YouTube for free.

  • Subscriptions Are Ruining Our Lives. Here's Why They're Everywhere Now. | You'll own nothing and you'll be happy!

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  • Sure, I have nothing against that. I, however, still think that whatever platform hosts their videos deserves some compensation, right? So that's going to be either subscribtion, ads or donations.

  • Subscriptions Are Ruining Our Lives. Here's Why They're Everywhere Now. | You'll own nothing and you'll be happy!

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  • Ok, but 'fuck subscriptions' is a blanket statement directed at the subscribtion business model as whole, including the hypothetical well run, and non-greedy ones.

  • Elon Musk's X is losing users in the U.S., UK, and EU. X's own data proves it.

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  • Right, but I don't see how simply being on the platform makes one part of the problem.

  • What news sources do you follow that offer different political perspectives from your own?

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  • Yle.fi which is Finnish state media, similar to BBC.

    Joe Rogan Experience, Modern Wisdom, Making Sense, Lex Fridman Podcast to name a few I listen to the most.

  • Subscriptions Are Ruining Our Lives. Here's Why They're Everywhere Now. | You'll own nothing and you'll be happy!

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  • Sure, but it's also a fact that many of the YouTubers whose videos I deeply enjoy wouldn't be able to make them if it didn't make them any money

  • Subscriptions Are Ruining Our Lives. Here's Why They're Everywhere Now. | You'll own nothing and you'll be happy!

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  • How do you apply this to a platform like YouTube? I don't even finish most of the videos I start watching there, and the ones I do, I'll likely never watch again anyway. Subscribtion seems much more logical profit model to a company like that.

  • Elon Musk's X is losing users in the U.S., UK, and EU. X's own data proves it.

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  • Ah, I see. Live and let live.

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    Are the people voting third party in the US election going to suddenly stop commenting on Nov 6th when their candidate obviously loses?

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  • As a non-US citizen, I'm getting the impression that a big number of left-wing voters are voting for Kamala not because she's so great, but because she's not Trump. Similarly, a ton of republicans are voting for Trump because they consider it a vote for the party, not for the candidate, and they sure are not going to vote for a democrat because (insert stereotypical grievances about liberals.)

    To me, it seem reasonable to assume, that given the chance, there would be a ton of people on both sides that would rather give their vote to almost anyone else but either of these two, but they don't because they know that a 3rd party can't win and this would just risk the greater or two evils winning.

    Why I referenced the prisoner's dilemma is because I mostly see this as a coordination problem. What if instead of tactical voting, everyone just voted for the candidate they actually consider the best one? It's not at all obvious to me that this would still mean that either of the two main candidates would win. This could very well give rise to a 3rd party.

    Also, to return to my original point; it doesn't seem immoral to me to vote for 3rd party even if that causes Trump to win by one vote. You did the right thing, rest of the people didn't. If everyone acted like you, it seems to be that this would, in fact, lead to him not winning.

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    Are the people voting third party in the US election going to suddenly stop commenting on Nov 6th when their candidate obviously loses?

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  • say 20% of voters in swing states voted third party, it would let the greater evil in

    Not in the case of ranked choice voting. If the 3rd party candidate doesn't win the vote goes to the number two choice.

    Also, sometimes the lesser evil is still evil. Imagine if the vote was between Trump and literal Hitler.

  • Subscriptions Are Ruining Our Lives. Here's Why They're Everywhere Now. | You'll own nothing and you'll be happy!

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  • But how do you apply this to a platform like YouTube? I don't want to have to buy each video I watch.

  • Elon Musk's X is losing users in the U.S., UK, and EU. X's own data proves it.

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  • What? Using twitter causes people to die now?

  • Elon Musk's X is losing users in the U.S., UK, and EU. X's own data proves it.

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  • I wonder if the right-wing content actually has increased, or if it's just the ratio of it compared to left-wing content as much of the left has seemingly abandoned the platform.

    My feed was almost entirely non-political to begin with, and personally, I've hardly noticed any difference, though the little politics that do get thru tend to indeed lean right.

  • Elon Musk's X is losing users in the U.S., UK, and EU. X's own data proves it.

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  • What's the problem?