• Wogi@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    See your first mistake was going to an enthusiast community and criticizing the thing in any way.

    There’s a specific enchantment you have to do before you can criticize the thing in any community. It varies from one place to another, and if you don’t utter it before you criticize the thing, you obviously are a troll and must be expunged.

    For example, if I go to a Table Top gaming community to bitch about 40k players, the legion will show up in force to show me exactly why I’m the worst example of a gamer. But if I first show admiration to the dedication these players show to painting these figures, I can then bitch about how the dumb space jocks take over the shop I like for weeks at a time.

    If I go to a Linux community, so like, most of Lemmy, I cannot criticize Linux before first casting a curse on Windows. Even though Linux has a shitty user interface and everyone knows it.

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      1 day ago

      You dont really have to go though any ritual, you just need to be specific in your criticism. For example, its not that Linux has a shitty UI, its that Gnome sucks balls. Everyone knows it true and if you dont agree its because you are uncultured swine.

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      Yeah, I didn’t even realize it was the electric vehicles instance, just was offering an opinion on the article which was about hertz selling off Tesla’s. Guy was not having it, and like you said accusing me of being a troll and all kinds of shit. I’m like dude I get that this is an enthusiast instance but FFS, there are legitimate concerns folks have, especially pertaining to renting an electric car and clearly it’s not working out business wise for them. Dude never backed down. It was exhausting.

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        2 days ago

        It is a fanatic’s job not to let reality get in the way of doctrine. Everyone else pays cash.