• breadsmasher@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Can I ask a sincere question? whats a tech sociopath apologist, could you demonstrate an example?

    Again, im sincerely genuinely asking

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      8 months ago

      Someone who takes it on themselves to act as apologist for the words/actions of tech sociopaths

      Often seen as “weird nerds coming to defense of $x” (such as musk, or in this case the kagi dudebro)

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        8 months ago

        (And then I glanced at your post history and noticed a trend of JAQing off so I now doubt whether you’re sincere in asking)

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            8 months ago

            JAQing

            https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions first hit (on google ;) ) which has a good explanation.

            E: And I don’t meant this post as a ‘just fucking google it’ or ‘educate yourself’ (well a little bit) but more to show there is more to this accusation of JAQing than just some way to shut you down. The method is used by bad faith actors a lot, so it is a pattern of behavior a lot of people react negatively too. So, assuming you are acting in good faith, it is a good way to learn why people are reacting to you like you are a bit of an bad faith actor. And if you are a bad faith actor, I only wasted a little bit of my time typing this out so nothing really lost.

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                8 months ago

                I had a weird brainfart a while back when I realized that Carlson reminds me of this guy.

                The bad faith ‘bugs that think are offensive’ debate guy from starship troopers. He even wears a bow tie!