Trolling Nextdoor in a red county is a lot of fun.

    • SailorFuzz@lemmy.worldOP
      55·
      3 months ago

      Don’t troll globally, troll locally.

      Trolling shit on Twitter, etc is pretty pointless, you’re just posting to other internet warriors… Pissing in an ocean of piss.

      But when you troll on Nextdoor (or apps like it)… it’s like “BoomerWorld”. Still bigoted and ignorant, but also not jaded from the internet at large. So they eat up shit, they just don’t expect people will go on there and tell lies (they really do that). You don’t get as many “views”, but the ones you do are just so much sweeter. It’s like you’re touching real lives… it’s heartwarming.

      I believe in grassroots trolling. o7

    • SailorFuzz@lemmy.worldOP
      11·
      3 months ago

      I just hope someone shows up.

      I mean, I’ll never know for sure, but in my mind’s eye I can just imagine it. Some Oxy-Pillbilly just punching the address into maps, showing up in his maga regalia… maybe all alone, maybe with others. A slow thought, approaching realization, moving across their minds…

  • Tedesche@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    3 months ago

    The man simply didn’t understand the word at all. Empathy is our capacity to understand the minds of others. It does not convey approval or agreement, simply understanding. Psychopaths have empathy; it’s how they’re good at manipulating others. You have to understand someone to manipulate them effectively. All humans possess some degree of empathy, as do most animals.

    There is an affective (emotional) component to empathy that effectively causes your mind to conjure the same emotion you perceive another person (or animal) to be feeling. This is why you cry when watching an emotional scene in films sometimes. Psychopaths do not have this component, which is why they seem emotionally cold to people sometimes. Psychopaths have to fake this in order to blend into society, and they learn to do so over the course of their lives.

    Charlie Kirk simply didn’t know what the fuck he was talking about in this instance, and Elon Musk doesn’t either. As someone on the autism spectrum, I’m not surprised Musk has some difficulty with the concept (no disrespect to autistic people, btw, just stating facts).