So, when was the last time you had a Flat-earther, high on his own confirmation bias and lack of knowledge of science, send you a youtube video of random bullshit designed to trigger an otherwise intelligent autist, and ask you to play the "calmly explain science to an idiot that thinks he's right" dance? Today was mine.
As someone that advocates that stupidity should indeed be painful, I'm very tempted to set up a contract for retards (Flat Earthers are a mere particularly annoying example) that want me to explain basic science to them: Every accurate explanation I give to a youtube video is tacit authorization to engage in 5 minutes of active combat with no pads or rules of engagement in exchange for the work I'm doing.
The reason being is that if you can't appeal to their (lack of) intellect, you can at least depend on any base animals's "pressure and release of pressure" mindset to kick-in after one or two good five-minute street fights where they've broken a bone or lost at least a tooth in order to counter-act the confirmation bias these videos prey on. Plus, I'd have a lot of fun watching someone stupid enjoy some physical pain as a response to their stupid, AND it would stop people from smugly repeating shit without doing a cursory google/duckduckgo/searx on the questions asked. So it might even be a win-win for everyone in society.
Would anyone be interested in such a contract template?
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WORF_MOTORBOATS_TROI ago
I dont know why anyone gives a shit about flat earthers. Are you trying to argue with people who say they're psychic too?
thisistotallynotme ago
Some of us have friends. Some of those friends occasionally believe in crazy shit. Some of that crazy shit requires you to answer them.
I have lots of christian friends, even though I think they're all believers in a death cult. I don't hold this against them. However, there was a reason Hubris was a crime in ancient greece, and I think we need appropriate (civil) remedy for it today.
WORF_MOTORBOATS_TROI ago
I really doubt that you have any friends.
MadWorld ago
Based on his subverse, the modlog seems to suggest that he deletes comments that do not agree with him. What a nigger.
https://voat.co/v/ProtectQRV/about/log/comment
thisistotallynotme ago
Oh man, I delete almost all the comments.
It doesn't matter if I agree with them or not. It's especially funny when I agree with them, and watch them lose their minds when I delete it anyway.
MadWorld ago
Good luck with "they are losing their minds because I censored their free speech" narrative that you fantasize about. One of the greatest things on Voat is that it has public modlogs, unlike eddit, that everyone is free to examine and judge for themselves.
https://archive.fo/FJs75
thisistotallynotme ago
Check my delete logs on v/ProtectQRV sometime. Laugh at the amount of butt-hurt there is from them.
You won't, because you already know how funny it is, and how butt-hurt all of you are. This is the best example of a brigading in recent history.
MadWorld ago
The recent ones on the modlog do seem retarded. Good luck with your narrative.