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Headlines showing idiocy is ruling the roost
I am an amateur historian. I remember someone posted something completely wrong to push an anti immigrant agenda, like Muslims and Christians have never lived in harmony in history. I then pointed our Jerusalem constantly switching hands and pilgrim rights being respected, Coptics living under Mamalukian rule peacefully and overall under Ottomon rule 600 years later there's still large swaths of Orthodox in Turkey just to name a few times. I got bombarded with comments, dms, all my posts on reddit were like downvoted and this crowd followed me to other subreddits to downvote and trash talk. Someone posted you follow R/Hometown so your from X Hometown. It was a very weird situation and I reported it all, it cleared up but I'm 60% I was targeted for being an active poster who leans left. I genuanlly thought I was one step from being doxxed..
there are entire villages in northern cyprus where they speak Greek to one another, only switching to Turkish when a foreigner walks in the room.
There are monasteries and mosques dotting the countryside in equal measure
Your experience of that is pretty much the key reason I've not bothered to explain this outside of a very limited specialist community I owed a lot to as I was putting it together.
I keep seeing new finds that would be really interesting to discuss, and I kind of hate seeing users confused about their own ancestral history while sitting knowing the answers, but I'll be damned if I'm going to be the one putting controversial answers out there in a more public way.
People are fucking nuts and it seems each day care less and less about actual truth and facts and more about tribalism and confirmation bias to the point of irrationality.
Over the next few years a lot of stuff will be identified by AIs capable of better correlation of data points than researchers to date, and then it can be the AI that gets to be the object of crazy people's ire and not actual humans that were just nerding out over research and data.
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I've experiences this on Lemmy and have blocked some instance, but probably just gonna give up on Lemmy too. I think I'm over talking to people (or bots? Who knows...) on the internet. It's all bullshit anyway, politics, memes, advertising, blah, blah that doesn't actually provide any meaning or positive things to my life. I was a passive observer of the internet for a long time before getting more active on reddit, and then Lemmy. I'm so tired of having to defend my opinions and people trying to start arguments out of nothing, and I don't care enough to research political shit to provide a truly airtight argument before someone tears it apart, or whatever else other fight someone is trying to start on any given day. At one point I was arguing about something with someone, and we both had the same position: "Trump is bad", but for some reason they were really going after me, even though we're on the same side, because i was consuming "too much conspiracy news" thinking that the 2024 election was gonna get violent from Trump's supporters. Really just over the social aspect of the internet in general, to be honest.
Modern misinformation is often let's find some common ground so I may "Seem" altruistic. It's unfortunate as common ground us the best way to reach people but it now being weaponized. "Trump is bad but atleast he's not Biden, who is supporting the genocide in Gaza!!" Like Trump wouldn't be doing the same shit, like come on..
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It turns out that lots of people are actually against recognizing human rights, as long as their rights are protected.
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A set of baby twins that are going to slowly die over the next two years because the company that made a single shot cure wants to charge over $2,000,000 per dose and insurance won't spend that much.
What the fuck.
Sometimes I wish I was a billionaire so I could 1) cover these things immediately and 2) have enough influence to change the rules
The US hard up needs straight socialized Healthcare. Our model is complete shit.
Their story gets even more screwed up. The woman who had the kids' health insurance (through her work, cause murika) cut this drug and others like it the day after the woman's kids were born. Doctors ran tests on her twins and confirmed the issue 4 days later.
So if she'd have had her kids less than a week earlier, the insurance would have been forced to cover it. I practically find it hard to believe it was such a coincidence.
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Thing is that those billionnaires do exactly that, just the wrong way. No one needs to be a billionnaire or multimillionnaire.
Every billionaire is a policy failure
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My aunts FB comments. My whole life I thought she was a lovely sweet lady, who was always super nice to me... Then I saw some years later she told somone else in the comment section should kill himself. Simple reason: the other person had different political views. It turns out she is a hardcore racist with very fascist world view and she is super proud of it.
I am not on FB for a very long time and I didn't talk to her for 10+ years but I think it is for the best.
I logged in to my bank account the other day...
... and written there in my last income slip was "here's an extra 2000, to my favourite employee, ya filthy cunt."
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Showing my age.... Tub girl.
Blue Waffle, it still invades my thoughts it was too nasty
Trump shit. The realization that we have yet to hit the bottom. It could get incalculably worse.
The Russian brick video. Nothing gore involved and it's an accident that can happen to anyone at anytime while driving.
The one with the man's wife in the passenger seat?
His cries were horrifying and so sad.
Children being mistreated. I can't. Not after having kids myself. I'm a wreck after seeing stuff like that now.
Although I don't have kids everything I've heard about the Ruby Franke/8 Passengers case made my blood boil. That scumbag saw her kids as nothing but a way to get clicks and money, and I'm glad that she's going to rot in prison.
And related to this, add animal abuse to the list of things that make my blood boil too. It's wild to think that until recently there was such a thing as a thriving "monkey torture network".
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The numerous cases of 4chan users providing "tech support" to children who don't know any better.
Especially making a child put their parent's laptop in the oven while throwing its battery in a bowl of salt water (which can short circuit the battery and cause it to catch fire btw).
2016->2019
CSAM back when those losers spammed Lemmy with it
I'm so happy that I didn't see any of that. I did see a picture of a woman eating shit straight from someone's ass twice tho. It was gross, but at least not anywhere near as bad.
Ugh that will probably never leave you. I haven't seen CSAM since I stumbled on it in the 1990s but what I saw is still burnt into my brain. What has been seen cannot be unseen.
This is one of the reasons I stay on kbin, it doesn't autoload images.
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For me it has to be an audio recording some old guy made of him hiding in his basement to confront two neighborhood teenagers who kept sneaking into his house. He shoots the guy first, then if i remember correctly the girl was in shock and said something like "you shot him" and then the old guy was like "you're fucking dead removed" and executed her.
Then he proceeded to leave the bodies in his basement over the weekend, then went to the cops to report the attempted robbery. Upon presenting his evidence, he was arrested.
Excluding anything that involved violence or injury (beyond gore), I'll go with Kiwi Farms
Furuta Junko, need I say more?
Yes, you need to say more. I have absolutely no idea what that is and I don't want to Google it if it's really that horrifying.
She was a Japanese high school student who was kidnapped, raped, tortured, and finally murdered after 40 days by a group of teenage boys who almost all got severely light sentences. The perpetrators were known to have bragged about their crimes and their family members desecrated her grave for ruining their sons' lives.
I just read the Wikipedia article on it.
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Why did I read that?
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Why did I read that?!
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The things I have seen or read on 4chan⦠I avoid that place since then.
The Wikipedia page about the japanese teenager's getting kidnapped and gang raped daily. Extremely depressing and disturbing.
Edit: ohh wait this count as gore.
Lemon party
It was actually when I first started using this site. I've been jumpscared by worst shit spammed by some bot on Lemmy Shitpost than anything I've ever seen mingling around internet edgelords
Time Cube. RIP you deranged, racist old bastard.
About ten years ago when I was on Twitter someone tweeted to please go report an account which was horrible without saying why. So I went to the account. Twitter in those days had thumbnails of the pictures you posted at the bottom of your account that you could swipe through, so you saw a bunch of photos at once instead of individually, and it was child sexual abuse material. Thankfully it was only thumbnail sized so I just got a sense of it without really seeing horrifying detail, but I was pretty depressed.
That photo of the parrot on some guys cock... You know the one!
I don't and I'm ok with that.
I don't know, the world is depressing. Recently, details about Palestine have been disheartening...
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