submitted 1 year ago by pingveno@lemmy.ml to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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While the !worldnews@lemmy.ml community has always been a little feisty, the flood of Redditors has turned much of any contentious subject into pure mud slinging. Take the recent post "Ukraine war: Kyiv claims its first victories of counter-offensive". The discussion featured these insults:

cia and nafo freaks
I don’t think the person you’re responding to has the capacity to realize anything except their own delusions
hasn’t achieved reading comprehension
tankie
fascist
gargling Putin's cock
weasels
So I sincerely ask you to either become a better person or just stfu.
loonies
Russian dick train
willfully obtuse

And that's just half of the page. Seems like it's time to have at least some basic civility rules in place before this community is nothing but personal attacks.

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[-] OneOrTheOther2028@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

On one hand, sure we could all do with some rules on civility.

However, people who support Russian claim to Ukrainian territory (not those that support and end to suffering, there's some nuance there) are, to me, despicable. In the same vein that we must not tolerate intolerance, I don't see that position as a viable position to take.

I'm all for vitriol when pointed at a handful of pre-selected targets. You can hate nazis, you can hate pro-russian pundits, and you can hate the guy who sold Ea-Nasir that bad quality copper in 1750 b.c.