• soronixa
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      23 years ago

      I don’t know how the ideas of an actual researcher means lemmy is crazy, care to elaborate?

      • @soferman@lemmy.ml
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        03 years ago

        I haven’t looked up the researcher, but there are researchers of chiropractic ‘science’ as well.

        What I am saying is that calling it a religion is taking it a bit far. Personally I feel like its more this stupid thing “if you dont want to sing the american song or do this and that you coul just move to another country” meme

        Every country has to have some sort of debate on the issue. Norway has the debate regarding if you can have other flags than the Norwgian flags on consitutuion day. Luckily it seems like we ar emoving towards (It’s always been legal) that people are free to flag whatever flag of nationality they want without people getting angry. And that instead people just gotta work hard so that immigrants and refugees are proud to raise the Norwegian flag in addition to their birth or ancestral nation’s flag.

        • soronixa
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          33 years ago

          I haven’t looked up the researcher, but there are researchers of chiropractic ‘science’ as well.

          you didn’t agree with him and thought yeah, he must be some nutjob?

          there are many things about American nationalism that really resemble a religion, imagine it like this, every morning at school you pray to a flag and your classmates accompany you in the ritual, that flag is so important that an athlete makes national news for having a pose that’s considered against the flag code. then suddenly your state dicides those teams that don’t play the national anthem aren’t faithful enough, so let’s stop the funding. and you’ve got “in God we trust” on your dollors, and your supreme court says it’s not religious, and votes for it to remain this way. and your politicians always pray at the end of their speeches, and everyone believes in a redemption called the American Dream^TM , and guns are the holy objects that are held more valuable than human lives, and then you’ve got this superiority complex that makes you think your the most righteous. should I go on and talk about evangelicals too?

          at what point does it stop being just nationalism and becomes a religion? considering that most definitions of religion don’t even exclude fandoms or consumerism, it’s not controversial to say that.

          now does Norway really compare to this? when was the last time you invaded a country because God had told your president to do so? what you describe is more like trying to remain a nation with the same collective identity.

    • Dessalines
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      13 years ago

      And more ableism. That’s 2 warnings I’ve needed to give you within a few hours.

      • soronixa
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        43 years ago

        isn’t it a bit to far to consider calling others crazy a form of ableism? I understand that the intention behind its use is to offend, but I don’t think it’s reason enough to receive an admin warning.

        • Dessalines
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          23 years ago

          I really don’t like it, as its a personal attack that’s easy to rely on for lazy trolls who don’t want to describe why they disagree with something. I know its not a DSM classification or anything but its still used to demean people with mental disabilities.

          • @nutomic@lemmy.ml
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            23 years ago

            I really don’t like it, as its a personal attack that’s easy to rely on for lazy trolls who don’t want to describe why they disagree with something.

            @soferman@lemmy.ml does that all the time, he doesnt need to the specific word “crazy” to do it.

          • @soferman@lemmy.ml
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            -13 years ago

            Okay. I didn’t know that this instance defined calling people crazy as ableism. I’s not defined as ableism any other place so I hope that the admins have a bit of leniancy on their instance specific rulings.

            • @TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
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              3 years ago

              Calling others tankie scum or authoritarian defenders for a month or two is not exactly normal civil behaviour. None of the people that criticised you ever needed to use slurs against you to make their point.

      • @Flelk@lemmy.ml
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        -43 years ago

        This is absolutely fucking idiotic. Or is “idiotic” an ableist slur because it degrades stupid people?

        This kind of blatantly ideologically-motivated behavior is why your platform will die.

        • Dessalines
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          23 years ago

          Your “free speech” reddit alternatives where you can say any bigoted slur you want, and be as rude to strangers as you want already exist. Why don’t you go there instead?

          • @Flelk@lemmy.ml
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            -23 years ago

            Straw men, straw men everywhere. Thanks for making the decision to leave your crazy echo chamber easier.

        • @TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
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          You have not justified why the words you use are needed to convey your point. Is your argument that bad?

          Edit: oh look my boy downvoted me instantly, not even trying to resolve or explain

          proof