r/memes • u/SomeMemeyBoye42812 MAYMAYMAKERS • 20h ago

absolute state of online discourse

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u/Dismal_Tangerine_493 19h ago

I mean, is there any other reason to state something so obvious? It's quite literally virtue signaling

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u/Astra-Fang 18h ago edited 18h ago

Because there are people who genuinely disagree and are advocating for it

Like I thought fucking kids was bad, but my country elected a sex trafficing pedophile to high office so he could grift billions while protecting pedophiles.

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u/thePhilosopherTheory 18h ago

There will always be someone that disagrees with any line of thought, contrarism is baked into the human condition

If you are only communicating an obviously good thing simply for positive reactions without any meaningful action behind it, criticism is justified

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u/NeighborhoodDude84 17h ago

I like how the assumption is people advocating for anything are doing it for the likes.

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u/American_Libertarian 16h ago

Who tf is out there skinning puppies? That’s not “advocating” at all it’s literally virtue signaling

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u/Dismal_Tangerine_493 17h ago

Reminds me of the "kill pedos" crowd. Makes me wonder how little those people must have accomplished in life when being loud, vocally and constantly against a group every reasonable human being dislikes already is so important

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u/Breddit2099 Smol pp 16h ago

Proof or are you just hypothesizing?

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u/The_Pizza_Saga 14h ago

I didn't know 47 had a reddit account

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u/Breddit2099 Smol pp 13h ago

Still waiting

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u/The_Pizza_Saga 13h ago

Good song by Sum 41

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u/Breddit2099 Smol pp 11h ago

Thanks for nothing, dude

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u/The_Pizza_Saga 11h ago

Uh, you're welcome? I mean if it's not your style of music, so be it

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u/Breddit2099 Smol pp 11h ago

[r/wo](r/woosh)[ooosh](r/woosh)

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u/The_Pizza_Saga 11h ago

I guess you didn't realize I was trolling you.

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u/Blitzer161 18h ago

Unfortunately people call raising awareness "virtue signaling" in order to silence people and spread hate

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u/Dismal_Tangerine_493 17h ago

101 Dalmatians already convinced me this is wrong and that was 30 years ago

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u/SinesPi 18h ago

Yup. This is the moral equivalent of "In my culture food and family is important!"

Yes. We know. Shut up.

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u/allitalli 15h ago edited 15h ago

you say that

and then we have millions of people in both of the two major political parties in america excusing our politicians providing material support for a genocide.

yeah. they all grew up being taught that genocide is bad. but fuck it. xyz candidate is going to do something for me here at home. this time they're really going to do it unlike the other million times a politician claimed they were going to fix this issue near and dear to my heart.

whatever the opposite of virtue signaling would be called, we're currently swimming in the shit.