deliberately misreading a good faith attempt to address how toxic some of the site culture has always been and how rising cynicism had made it worse.

The way I see it, it was more that there weren’t really any attempts made at explaining what the last part of this sentence actually means. Plenty of people did sincerely ask for clarification, and got basically nothing beyond “this is bad because we’ve decided it’s bad” or “go look at the modlog”.

And when you say that things have actually gotten worse, I genuinely do not understand that because I don’t share that impression. It’s perfectly possible that I should, but it would have to actually be explained to me why.

I think you laid it out nicely, it sounds ridiculous because it is ridiculous.

It’s the only way to win!

I’m one hundred percent convinced that Hinkle guy is a fed. Haz is most likely just a useful idiot though, with emphasis on the idiot part.

His last words: “I thought all I’d be doing was calling in drone strikes on defenseless goat herders like I’m used to, this is unfair!”

lemmy.world mission statement: “We will make reddit, but somehow even worse”

Calm down, Adolf

I’ve interacted with several people who referred to themselves as Leninists, and every single one of them turned out to actually be Trotskyists.

Eye-ran bad!

W I D E B O Y

Funniest part is there are trucks three times as long with the same size bed

This is real?

Yeah, there isn’t enough money in the world to get me in that thing

“The World That Awaits the Next President - maintaining our global primacy is worth the price in effort, treasure and sometimes blood”

It’s a trite point, but imagine a major Chinese newspaper publishing an article with this title. We’d never hear the end of it.

Ok Vlad

Israel is often seen as a sort of colonial state that treats their Muslim population as second class citizens at best.

Damn, I wonder why

We stan a Queen

Is your trail not sparkling?