Is it "negative" to identify shitty things as being shitty? I wouldn't necessarily blame the commenters for that.

jimbokun an hour ago | parent | next [-]

It's useless without describing concrete, practical solutions to those problems.

What do the voters want? Zero taxes, no crime, world peace and infinite benefits.

It's easy to identify things as shitty because the above doesn't describe the world yet and thus it's a banal observation. Implementing real, practical improvements is really hard and requires much more thought and consideration and introduces the possibility of failure. Which is why that part isn't discussed as much.

	▲	shimman an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Why don't people that perpetuate the current system defend its existence? Why is the onus on us to develop a new realm of government when the current system never had to do this? Your comment is "but you live in society too!" Society acknowledging the shitty things is the first action in rectifying them.

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krapp 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Constantly? As if it were a psychological compulsion? So often that dang had to make a guideline about it, which no one even attempts to follow?

Two actually - the guideline against being "curmudgeonly" is separate from the guideline against going on a tilt because you get triggered by any website that doesn't look and act as much like plaintext as possible.

And yet if someone so much as cracks a joke they get rapped across the knuckles and lectured about a rule that doesn't actually exist (no humor allowed)?

Yes, that's negative. That's a culture of performative misanthropy.

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gmd63 an hour ago | parent [-]

You've convinced me, I'm going to stop complaining about corporate slop and the connection between big tech / VCs and the awful political situation in the most advanced country in the world. I will try to glaze Liquid Glass from here on out, say some nice things about the richest man on earth who kept quiet about the fact that he pays people to grind video games for him, and make sure to give David Sacks and Jason Calacanis the benefit of the doubt next time they are whining like babies online for a Silicon Valley Bank bailout.

I think the OP website is pretty cool by the way.

	▲	rightbyte an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> he pays people to grind video games for him The POE shilling might be what pisses me most off about him.
	▲	krapp 20 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The compulsion to interpret people's comments in bad faith then retort with condescending snark is a problem too. But hey, at least it isn't memes, right?