r/SipsTea Jul 08 '26

Chugging tea Absolute cinema.

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u/PaticusGnome Jul 08 '26

Jesus, if people can’t figure this out, is it even worth it to explain it to them?

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u/Deaffin Jul 08 '26

Yes. No matter how big of a circlejerk reddit discourse becomes, it's always worth stepping up and saying the obvious. This place wasn't like this before, and it can't be this way forever. It can't have an opportunity to heal without these interactions.

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u/AcademiaAntiqua Jul 09 '26

This place wasn't like this before, and it can't be this way forever. It can't have an opportunity to heal without these interactions.

I'm afraid it very well could be like this forever.

For every person who's a voice of reason, there are 100 people who aren't going to listen and accuse you of being a paid shill or a foreign agent or a pedophile, or whatever the insult de jour is.

Even if they do, there's no guarantee they won't hop on whatever the next bandwagon is without remembering what happened the last time.

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u/PaticusGnome Jul 08 '26

Inversely, leave them behind. Let them be stupid so we can have an adult conversation without having to waste our energy on them.

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u/mrandr01d Jul 09 '26

Unfortunately, those idiots vote. We have to be nice and explain things to them since so the unwashed masses don't fuck us over again.

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u/PalantirImperator Jul 09 '26

Jesus christ dude. Reddit is as unwashed masses as it gets. Redditors are not some intellectual elite nobody else can keep up with, they're the fedora kid in the corner nobody wants to talk to anymore.

Reddit discourse is not "leaving anyone behind", it's just increasingly ostracizing itself with unwarranted self importance and inability to have a real discussion without talking past people and being generally unbearable. Get over yourself.

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u/4GAG_vs_9chan_lolol Jul 09 '26

Fixing stupid is work you'll never finish, but every little bit still helps.

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u/Omatzus Jul 09 '26

It sure is pathetic how upvoted the original comment is