• Smokeydope@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Thats the thing about saying an opinion on the internet, its tied to you forever. In real life people tend to change their minds and can re-evaluate on their own shitty opinions after a few decades. Not always, but it happens. But that doesn’t change the fact you said that thing that one time 20 years ago. The people who don’t really care about you and just want a mental straw man to hate don’t care about things like personal growth or that you have changed stance, just that you thought that bad thing at one time.

    Im personally guilty of saying some real edgelord shit as a teenager on the internet. If someone somehow collected a few comments I made when I was 15 and went on a 5 paragraph essay about how terrible of a person I am now it would make me roll my eyes and tell them to get bent. Who I was as a 15 year old and my opinions then is completely independent of who I am now and my current stances. But the 5-paragrapher doesn’t care about that, they got their ragebait strawman and a ride on the high horse so they are happy.

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      9 months ago

      Very well said. I think people tend to not realise that personal development is really a thing that happened when they have instant access to the old opinions of people online.

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        9 months ago

        Incredible that this personal development where he suddenly realised raping children is a bad thing, after decades of publicly championing it (and even using his workplace email address to do so), happened immediately after his job became on the line and there were public calls for him to step down/be removed.

        Almost unbelievable, even.

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          9 months ago

          I’ve already replied to you regarding this exact stance you have. Readers: check my (or their) comment history for what I have previously replied. Tl;dr they’re linking two completely unrelated situations together to create a narrative that his past opinions are why he resigned. Opinions which have since changed, and the thing that made him resign was where he was being pedantic, while STILL DENOUNCING what had happened to Epstein’s victims (a part which is often conveniently cut).

          You don’t need to post it again. You’d do better just responding to the first one and not posting it again making it look as it hasn’t been responded to.

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              9 months ago

              I repeated my stance to reiterate my point, which you seemingly ignored since you repeated your points (which I addressed!) again.

              I’m not entirely sure why you repeated yours even after it was addressed, without so much as an acknowledgement that it had been addressed, it’s pointless at best and bad faith at worst. I can only assume the point of that was to make it look like I had not already addressed those points and that they were completely valid.

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      9 months ago

      We aren’t talking about one thing said 20 years go though, we’re talking about something repeated across decades by someone who was a grown man even then, and who only said otherwise when it was convenient to do so to try to keep his job.

      Now, maybe he genuinely did just happen to change his mind on whether child rape is ok or not a mere few days after there were calls for him to step down. I just personally don’t believe it.

      I agree with your point, but I don’t think this applies to Stallman at all.