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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not saying the OP was banned fairly, but to do the devil's advocate, there's people with PHD in biology or medicine who still don't believe in Evolution. You can always find idiots with PHDs, even in their chosen fields.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll go ahead and say OP was probably banned fairly, judging solely by the fact that he willingly posts threads on 4chan

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anon probably used slurs and got banned for that

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

As someone with over a hundred banned reddit accounts, you generally don't get banned for disagreeing. So maybe not slurs, but maybe just general rude language. Or my personal favorite, bothering the mods.

Unless he's Richard Dawkins, people do get banned if they argue about biological sex.

[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Something like 1/5 of pharmacists believe homeopathy works. How the fuck can you go through that training and still believe in a hyperdilution that's magic if you shake it the right way and never ever touch it with your fingers because that takes the magic away?

(For those who are unfamiliar I'm not even being facetious, this is what homeopaths actually believe)

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Placebo effect is powerful. They probably have lots of people saying X really helped with their cold/pain/cough/whatever.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pharmacists and General practitioners believing in homeopathy. Physical Therapists believing in chiropractice. There’s way too many examples. But at least physical therapists don’t tend to have PHDs :D

[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Physical Therapists believing in chiropractice

I will never not be mad that chiropracticians have largely avoided the hunt for woo-woo magic crystal retards. Don't get me wrong, some people have managed to find treatment for chronic pain in things like acupuncture and chiropractic care that they couldn't get elsewhere, but most of the time this is presented as equal to physiotherapy despite lacking any scientific support, and the inability for "alternative medicine" to cure or permanently treat people.

[–] jmsy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The same happened to me on Lemmy. I brought evidence, they brought anecdotes, and I was the "loser" of the discussion according to the hive

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everywhere. Just look for anything that goes against (even slightly) the leftist perspective, such as:

  • anything critical of trans people competing in sports - a lot of those policies are bigoted, but there are legitimate concerns
  • evidence that the economy is not as bad as people claim - e.g. cars aren't more expensive today than they used to be, bottom of the market cars are about the same price as they were 20 years ago, after accounting for inflation (they're actually a little cheaper in many cases, and have way more tech)
  • arguments criticizing Biden/Democrats
  • anything anti-socialist

And so on. The quality of the argument doesn't matter, what matters is that it doesn't fit the leftist agenda, so it gets downvoted like crazy.

Go ahead, try playing devil's advocate sometime (and don't say the equivalent of "I'm a leftist, but...") and cite your sources and see how well your post does vs comments that ignore facts and spout common leftist rhetoric, the lower effort post will get more votes and yours will probably go negative.

[–] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As an expert on everything I find the Internet constantly frustrating.

[–] RealFknNito@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As an expert on nothing I find the internet constantly frustrating.

[–] anarchyrabbit@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I left Reddit after the fuck spez debacle and haven't looked back. I occasionally go to reddit through Google for some specific things. But I don't log in or engage in the content besides reading what I was looking for. And I use my ad blocker so that dickward spez doesn't get anything from me.

But yeah I suppose this is more about mods. They think they have so much power at the end of they day it's a fucking forum, that is not much power.

[–] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was blanket banned from supposedly leftist subs for posting in PCM and the_donald - obviously trolling the shit out of them.

Fuck 'em, fuck spez, fuck their power-drunk mods, and fuck their total lack of understanding of what makes their site work, let alone good.

[–] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Mods everywhere are cunts. Including Lemmy. I'm sure @Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works will agree that he's a cunt.

[–] WolfhoundRO@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is why Quora is so sanitized unlike Reddit: you actually get to see the (alleged) qualification of the OP. I'm not saying this would get to be an appeal to authority, but blatantly contradicting the expert while you're none of it wouldn't be so easy to get away with in the other forums

[–] HandBreadedTools@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Bro Quora is the most blatantly wrong and idiotic site on the internet