I'm genuinely perplexed at people who say they receive “a barrage of extremely rude, very entitled, often misinformed responses,” or something to the same effect, because when you go look at the responses it is _never, ever_ true.
It's not that I can't see some of them. I went to her instance, so I saw whatever she got. She's lying, plain and simple.
I singled her out as an example, but my point is more general: why do people lie about something that's so easy to check?
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@josemanuel
> why do people lie about something that’s so easy to check?
because they get away with it, there are always enough people who will eagerly support this. i think it's classic ingroup outgroup behavior.
@josemanuel People's perceptions differ. What you don't find offensive they might.
@trinsec All I saw was three people (hardly a barrage) confronting her over one of her assertions in the original post, and they were objectively right.
None of them called her a liar, like I did; none of them insulted her or her product. All three responses were variations of: “If what you say is true, what about _this_?” I fail to see how that's rude, entitled or misinformed. When journalists push politicians on their lies, does she think they're being rude, too?
@josemanuel Hmm... I've seen very bad faith comments about her on the bird site.
I don't know whether she gets extremely rude posts here, because for all I know, someone might be moderating them.
@olives When she wrote that, I checked her previous post on Signal here and not only were there no rude comments (a few confronted her on her claims, but all of them in a very civil way), most actually cheered on her.
In any case, I singled her out just because I happened to see that post, but a lot of people do the same thing: complaining about being abused online while getting nothing but positive responses or some polite criticism at worst.
I'm also perplexed at the people who reply to those messages offering their sympathy. What do you gain from that? Do you enjoy licking ass that much?