• @[email protected]
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    4123 hours ago

    those are the people who no one irl talks to anymore because they impulsively take the opposing stance, regardless of how stupid that stance may be, any time anyone says anything

    • Justas🇱🇹
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      110 hours ago

      I had a colleague like that, he was an electric engineer who was convinced that the Earth is flat and that vaccines are bad.

    • @[email protected]
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      213 hours ago

      I play devil’s advocate in most friend-space conversations, it’s just who I am, I don’t do it disrespectfully (I hope) but it’s just the first thing my brain goes to.

      • @[email protected]
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        312 hours ago

        sometimes it’s good to examine things from all angles; i’m mostly talking about people who will start arguing if you say “nice weather today”-- shit gets old quick

    • @[email protected]
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      621 hours ago

      Yup and guess what they are way more vocal online since they can still have an audience there and this is one of the reasons social media sites are so skewed from representing generalizable opinions. It’s a contrarian incubator.