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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2015-08-27 06:36 pm

[ SECRET POST #3158 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3158 ⌋

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are often assholes trying to make you feel bad on purpose

[personal profile] chardmonster 2015-08-27 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
If you feel a constant desire to express beliefs you don't actually have in order to provoke an extreme reaction for shits and giggles, fuck you. I'm not talking about obvious trolling here of course.

If you're saying "I'm gonna play devil's advocate" to express views you actually possess but are too much of a coward to own up to, you are a laughable moron. Fuck you also.

Re: are often assholes trying to make you feel bad on purpose

(Anonymous) 2015-08-28 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
not OP here but I do it... to people who post strongly opinionated or extremely broadly generalizing comments in the first place

someone saying 'all ____ is shit and any opposing views are held by laughable morons' makes me want to explain why someone might believe X even if I don't believe X myself

it's usually not for shits and giggles, trolling, or me being a coward, it's me seeing someone spewing a black and white rigid viewpoint and trying to add nuance to the situation

Re: are often assholes trying to make you feel bad on purpose

(Anonymous) 2015-08-28 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
SA

^ I didn't mean to imply that you're doing the examples I gave. just providing positive reasons as alternatives to the negative ones

Re: are often assholes trying to make you feel bad on purpose

(Anonymous) 2015-08-28 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
I agree with you on both of these tbh

I think there's a kind of contrarianism that can be useful, but it is neither of those things, and usually is sincere at least on some level in a way that neither of the styles you cite are.

but seriously " a constant desire to express beliefs you don't actually have in order to provoke an extreme reaction for shits and giggles" is the lamest, weakest-ass shit of all time

Re: are often assholes trying to make you feel bad on purpose

(Anonymous) 2015-08-28 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
Nah. I do it to force other people to reconsider their points and to test my own beliefs on said issue. I've been forced to reconsider my stance a few times by playing devil's advocate, because I've come up with better arguments for the "wrong" side.

I'd say that for the most part people just want to feel witty and superior if they're DAing for shits and giggles. Most of the time it's not straight trolling.