Obviously, the internet has always been a toxic place, (the phrase “flame war” has been around for decades,) but it seems to have gotten so much worse over the last few years. I used to think decentralization of the internet would fix the worst of it, but Lemmy seems to have gotten worse alongside the rest of internet culture, proving me wrong. How do we fix/improve this culture of toxicity?

      • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        7·
        2 days ago

        There are people willing to kill you and everyone you love, cause any amount of suffering, and give zero thought for it, just so they can get more power. I don’t mind if those people get deleted

            • AskewLord@piefed.socialEnglish
              15·
              2 days ago

              then you shouldn’t believe in violence. violence is power.

              you violate your own beliefs.

              • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                7·
                2 days ago

                Yeah it’s like the famous paradox of tolerance, you must not tolerate intolerance

                Same way you gotta defend your freedoms from those trying to take them away from you, even if in doing so you end up violating theirs.

                • AskewLord@piefed.socialEnglish
                  16·
                  2 days ago

                  No, it’s that you’re a thug who thinks they are a hero.

                  And like all thugs, you hide behind theoretical bullshit to justify your horrible actions and beliefs as for the ‘greater good’.

                  And if you found yourself on the receiving end of the violence you propose, I don’t think you’d be so eager about it.

                  • Luminous5481 "Lawless Heathen" [they/them]@anarchist.nexusEnglish
                    4·
                    12 hours ago

                    That’s called self defense. And if you weren’t some hand-wringing liberal lickspittle, maybe you would have the backbone to stand up against fascists as well.

                    But you don’t, so you’ll die a nobody, just another in the long line of bootlicking centrists who followed orders and marched themselves into the noose the fascists eventually put around your neck. And as you’re about to die, your last thought will be a plaintive cry for a leftist is to come and save you.