Things I’m sick of seeing in internet arguments
- Telling somebody to kill themselves because they disagree with you. This shouldn’t require explanation.
- Creating a false superiority for your argument by implying that the other party is “too upset”. This comes in a TON of forms- calling somebody “butthurt”, saying “u mad”, saying anything to the effect of “they’re crying and moaning like babies because I disagree”. You end up with two parties who both claim to be “cool and aloof” to their “hysterical” opponent, but are doing so by hysterically attacking their opponents with claims of hysteria. Not only does it imply that being upset makes you wrong, it turns an argument about an issue into an argument about whose more “cool”.
- “I don’t have to explain myself because if you don’t understand my opinion you aren’t worth dealing with.” No matter how obvious the reasoning behind something seems to you, this sort of attitude isn’t going to convince anyone of anything, because only the people who already agree with you are going to understand why you feel the way you do.
- If somebody is disagreeing with a belief that you hold so fundamentally that you believe it is self-evident and can’t be explained with reason, then you might as well stop right there because you already know neither of you is going to change opinions.
- Did you notice I already violated one of my own rules? I didn’t explain point number one, even though my third point clearly says that I should explain myself even when my reasoning seems obvious to me. Hypocrisy is surprisingly easy to fall into, so be on guard and remember that conceding that you made a mistake in your argument does not mean that you have “lost”, it means you’ve made an error because you’re a human being and presumably so are the people you’re arguing with.
- (The reason I don’t think you should tell people to kill themselves over an argument is that telling somebody they don’t have the right to live is just about the most personal attack you can deliver, and if you’re trying to convince a person to agree with you, personal attacks will just convince that person that they don’t want to agree with you.)
The internet is a means of communication, so arguments will naturally occur because that is how human beings have always communicated. “Internet arguments” have such a strong stigma because for whatever reason we often behave more erratically communicating on the internet than we do communicating in other ways, so just try to keep that in check.
What is a joke, anyway?
I think it’s a type of food that you throw at a person while yelling surprise.
that’s a bad joke because some people may have had bad experiences with food being thrown and surprises.
tw food being thrown
tw surprises
(Source: post-cactus)
What is a joke, anyway?
Why do I miss out on all the Tumblr outages, breaches, and glitches?
Why couldn’t we all have evolved with only one gender and reproduce asexually?
Well then, cactus it is your duty to evolve in such a way that you are able to reproduce asexually.
Then it is up to me.
I shall save the human race from unnecessary gender wars.
Somehow.
(Source: post-cactus)
Why couldn’t we all have evolved with only one gender and reproduce asexually?
New Tumblr feature alert.
Hovering over the avatars or names of people on your Dashboard will give you this preview thingy. It replaces the small menu button on the avatar.
this is one of the neater new features they’ve added.
I hope they keep the quick access to the ask box, that was really useful.
It’s there.
BTW. As expected, Xkit extensions for the menu button are broken.
(Source: post-cactus)
New Tumblr feature alert.
Hovering over the avatars or names of people on your Dashboard will give you this preview thingy. It replaces the small menu button on the avatar.
Oh gosh, my “Building on Fire” post was noticed by pinkiepony.
I’m not sure how to respond. ._.
(Source: floofershaii, via cant-be-want-to-be)
This should be the last of any whiny posts. I sincerely apologize for anyone who is tired of these.
Everyone is free to comment on this. I am not viciously attacking either side. I just want to lay out my thoughts about DWM instead of vaguely yelling about it.
I respect many of the people who are involved, and my opinions of them have not changed.
Yay! After 2 whole days of sewage, everything seems to be to dying out a- OH JJ RESPONDED FUCK THIS BACK TO THE HOLE I GO.
*grabs necessary supplies and heads to the panic house in the Dutch forests*
I remembered that my brother once designed his own OC for himself. So I drew him as well.
He never named the pony. So I’ll just call him Chase because that’s the handle he’s using now.
So yeah. These are the two jokers behind that blog with the 5 angry foals AKA Post Crusade.