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Very well-stated (& calm) response to what is turning into a heated discussion about users on the hexbear.net instance (lemmy.one)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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(The title you see below mine is the wording chosen by the OP of the full post - I hope I do not cause offense, but I cannot control it showing up here as it is linked.)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

There's a famous quote that I like by Rudyard Kipling:

If you can keep your head, when everyone around you is losing theirs...

This comment, offering calmness amongst the storm, intrigued me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The comment is far less calm than you would have us believe. I think it just resonated with your own frustrations. That doesn't make it good in any way.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

I see it as a call for people to be able to discuss things calmly and rationally. Certain facts within the statement e.g. "get called an idiot shitlib and told to read some theory" are definitely emotionally provocative (as are terms such as "everything" and "nothing"), but indeed that happens sometimes, i.e. everything is relative.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The man who can keep his head when everyone around him is losing theirs, has found who to blame for the fuckup

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago

Do you mean himself? Indeed he is the only one who can control the situation, e.g. by blocking them. On the other hand, OP (of the OP I mean, not the commenter promoted here) was a new member of Lemmy, so was shocked to see this behavior, and wanted reassurance and a community of like-minded people to stand with them.