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Remember Rule 1 people.
Remember rule 1, people! We can’t have any truth leaking into our aggressively-censored (lemmy.world) echo-chamber that so closely resembles the smug Reddit hive-mind that it’s hard to discern between the two!
Rule 1 is: Be nice and have fun.
Definitely censorship there. I’d add more, but that would violate rule 1.
So instead… I hope you have the day you deserve.
My point is: Rule 1 is vaguely-phrased and has been repeatedly cited as justification for censorship. ESPECIALLY here on Lemmy.world.
“Be nice”.
Anyone dishing out any inconvenient truths about the world can be accused of not “being nice”. It’s the perfect catch-all for censorship happy moderation.
It might as well say, “don’t say anything that might be considered controversial by the hivemind”
Or, just don’t be a dick. Something many users have a fundamental issue with from my experience over the last 25+ years online.
It’s 4 days late, but I’ll wade in.
It’s possible to express an opinion without being an asshole about it. That’s what Rule 1 is about. Not censorship.
I don’t like (factual) Y about country X. <- Doesn’t breach Rule 1.
The people in country X are all shit stains <- Breaches Rule 1.
Diplomatic honesty is fine (at least with me).
What isn’t fine are:- Personal attacks,
- Doxxing, trolling, sealioning,
- attacks on whole groups of people because of:
- stereotypical characteristics.
- ingroup-outgroup bias,
- readily disprovable dis/misinformation.
In summary, respectful debate is welcome. Nastiness is not.
None.
Countries don’t have a unique identity I could like or dislike as a whole.
They can vary widely from region to region, city to city, block to block, street to street… heck even person to person. I may not like some people, or at worst some region because of this or that reason but that is all.
Countries I like in no particular order: Canada, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Denmark, Switzerland, Belgium, France, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Malta, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Cyprus, New Zealand
Peru and USA
I hate America, because that’s where I’m from and what I know the most about. If I lived in your country, I’d hate it more.
Demacia from Runeterra. They claim to be morally right and superior whilst also doing eugenics. Bloody bastards.
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This thread will either be all american hate or super racist, there’s no in between
Probably the ones who oppress their own people, wage war, manufacture weapons and death, spread terrorism… I’m not singling out any specific one. It’s difficult to compare which atrocity is the worst and choose a winner.
I have no particular dislike for any country. I just don’t like some people I know personally or whose actions are known to me.
I’m not well-traveled internationally. Outside of America I’ve only ever been to Costa Rica, which was a great experience. I’d like to visit Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, Germany, and Canada.
Outside of the obvious despotic and corrupt nations, I’ve watched enough Amazing Race to know that, sorry, I’ll never go to India.
