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Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed

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Re: Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed

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Post by dang »

bende511 wrote: post #225
33MHz-i486 wrote: post #81

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You can't attack other users like that here, regardless of how wrong they are or you feel they are. Worse, you've been doing this repeatedly in other places:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42953461

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42950095

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42923346

I don't want to ban you because your commenting history before that looks (mostly) fine. But if you keep breaking the site rules, we won't have much choice, so if you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site to heart, we'd be grateful.

Re: Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed

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trimethylpurine wrote: post #263
bende511 wrote: post #223

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Personal attacks will get you banned here. Moreover, we've had to warn you more than once before about breaking the site guidelines. I don't want to ban you but if you keep doing this, we'll end up having to.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

p.s. Also, please don't use HN primarily for political or ideological battle. That's another line at which we ban accounts (https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...).

Re: Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed

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tayo42 wrote: post #120
trimethylpurine wrote: post #69

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Personal attacks will get you banned here. Moreover, we've had to warn you more than once before about breaking the site guidelines. I don't want to ban you but if you keep doing this, we'll end up having to.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

p.s. Also, please don't use HN primarily for political or ideological battle. That's another line at which we ban accounts (https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...).

Re: Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed

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Post by timeon »

magicalhippo wrote: post #843
timeon wrote: post #836

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That was probably mentioned from US-centric point of view where they have two-party system.

I'm from Norway where we have currently ten parties in our parliament[1]. We still mostly talk about them as distributed along a left to right axis. Though as I mentioned it's not a perfect approximation. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storting

Seems like Norway has also many constituencies which can favor dominant parties. However unlike US you have also leveling seats which balances it a bit.

Re: Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed

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Post by 9283409232 »

rightbyte wrote: post #845
intended wrote: post #456

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Did people forget the_donald? What do people think others will do, when they see that the_donald behavior gets rewarded by electoral and political support? If its not clear, everyone is going to radicalize, because its getting success.

'thedonald' was not violent are even hateful by Reddit standards. Banning it was a big mistake and gave fringe supporters headroom. Reddit has in general got way worse since 2016. The amount of bloodthirst and hate is very unsettling.

the_donald was very hateful but I wouldn't call them violent. They were a cultish meme sub like /r/Conservative is. They got banned was for brigading not for being violent and hateful.

Re: Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed

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Post by troyvit »

koolba wrote: post #828
troyvit wrote: post #807

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> I challenge you to find any specific court case taking up by the SCOTUS where you think the outcome was the result of corruption. The presidential immunity case is another good one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_v._United_States_(2024) I think the first question to ask is, if the U.S. had a democratic president during the time of this judgement, would the vote granting presidential still have been 6-3 along p…

> I think the first question to ask is, if the U.S. had a democratic president during the time of this judgement, would the vote granting presidential still have been 6-3 along party lines? > Perhaps if it had been a democrat president more of the liberal justices would have voted for it too, but that still indicates a corrupted court. It's just corrupted the other way. Eh? Biden, a Democrat, was President during the…

> Eh? Biden, a Democrat, was President during the time of that judgement.

Sorry, bad typing. The judgement was for the ex-president while Biden was in office and my point was that the spread might have been different if the case was against a Democrat.

I agree about your line between bias and opinion, and I might have my own biases telling me when an opinion is a bias. However the judge for life thing we have here is not good for anybody.

Re: Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed

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Post by zelphirkalt »

yostrovs wrote: post #702
BadCookie wrote: post #563

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I think yostrovs was talking about Musk, not Trump. And calling someone who did two Nazi salutes in front of a crowd “Hitler” is maybe not as unfair as you are making it out to be. My guess is that Musk did it for outrage purposes rather than because he is an actual Nazi, but it’s hard to know really. Video in case you somehow have not seen the incident I am referring to: https://youtu.be/gDkuwRx14hQ

Why would the video you shared take out the words "from my heart" that were said just before the gesture? Would that maybe change the meaning of the gesture? This is the problem with MSM that makes you actually think you're dealing with Hitler.

So he did Hitler Gruß from his heart? How am I to interpret that, except even more negatively?

Fact is, one does not simply do a Hitler Gruß without being either extremely dumb or intentionally doing it. Maybe he is both. Nevertheless the influence he has and normalizing this kind of action are scary.

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Post by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF »

Bhilai wrote: post #785
majgr wrote: post #570

Living in Poland ruled by trumpists for 8 years I have these experiences: - Get subscription of high value newspaper or magazine. Professionals work there, so you will get real facts, worthy opinions and less emotions. - It is better to not use social media. You never know if you are discussing with normal person, a political party troll, or Russian troll. - It is not worth discussing with „switched-on” people. They…

> Get subscription of high value newspaper or magazine. Professionals work there, so you will get real facts, worthy opinions and less emotions. I struggle with this. It's incredibly challenging to find reliable, unbiased news sources these days, especially with the perceived slant of many major outlets. It's discouraging when even subscriptions to reputable publications like the NYT and WSJ leave you feeling like yo…

https://ground.news/

No affiliation other than being a customer.

They aggregate stories and report on who's reporting on the story and how, detailing bias and factuality. They do international stories and probably also stories in your local area (in the US, perhaps less likely elsewhere).

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