“I never tried it, I never experienced it” - .etc These are things that are sometimes said in some posts where someone is about to criticize something people have at certain lengths, done or experienced said things. It’s an uninformed opinion that offers nothing except to detail how incurious someone is to learn about it.
“I just turned 18” - This is a small detail that could say that someone is still figuring out the world around them, but they just go on a banter about something that they haven’t crafted a full thought about. You’ve still got much to learn before tackling big subjects or even big wonders.
“I’m a Non-American” - This is commonly found whenever a poster is criticizing America at any degree, without studying about it or even knowing someone from there to get an idea about it. Of course it’s easy for Non-Americans to get entangled about things in another country they don’t understand about - because they don’t live in it!
“I would like you to know that is a presentation about my unhinged nature”; yes you could say this is me
That one dipshit who uses the “thorn” instead of “th” in their posts.
There is more than one, but the other might have stopped.
Displaying lack of nuance
Asking a question in the title and then answering it themself in the post body.
Great job, buddy. Looks like you got that all wrapped up, there. What did you need me for, again?
Basically insulting me or telling me how stupid and wrong I am because I am… not them and don’t share their opinion.
A lot of people lack the imagination to understand other people are not them and that’s… OK. Same folks who love to tell you how if you don’t agree with them or feel bad for their ‘suffering’ you ‘lack empathy’ or ‘need therapy.’
I just find the amount of entitlement… in most internet users and also IRL to be baffling compared to like 10-20 years ago. I missed this memo in life where other people owe me and must agree with me or they are wrong and bad and should be insulted and harassed. But it seems to be the default mode of a huge chuck of the population these days.
Expressing only absolute opinions.
The world is rarely black or white, but some people act as if it is, and take any suggestion of a possible intermediate ‘gray’ as confirmation you must be on the ‘opposing side’.
You can’t have sensible discussion with someone who already decided they are right.
There are certain keywords that, when present in the title, reliably produce a comment section that will give you brain damage by just attempting to read through it. My list of content filters is hundreds of items long. It automatically hides about 2/3 of the posts on any news community and of the remaining ones I then manually hide multiple more. This includes even things I’m genuinely into but have learned not to even try to engage with here - I go elsewhere for difficult conversations.
Elsewhere?
I’m a member on a subscription-based platform with 24k paying users who go out of their way to be decent towards you even in disagreement. It’s like a room full of adults. And no, I’m not going to publicly disclose what platform I’m talking about exactly - sorry.
Judging from your smug sense of superiority, I’m going to guess it’s Sam Harris’ Making Sense community?
some are not asking for engagement. I will comment. never tried it or something but I assume most will not really reply to it. It means im interested but I have no experience with the thing. granted this is the internet so my interest may be just enough to type a bit.
“it depends on your <xyz>”
which commonly follows up with “look it up”.
it’s a perfect 2 cents added to the table.
i guess any other 2 cents will do too.
