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The amount of times capitalism gets dragged into a thread that has nothing to do with economics or politics is, quite frankly, astounding.
edit: I get it, you are all replying the same thing. Point taken, capitalism has its hands in everything. My point: we don't have to circlejerk about it every 3 seconds. I would rather not delete this comment, but why isn't there a block notifications button on Lemmy?
LOL, you think the enshittification of the Internet has nothing to do with economics or politics?! I'm almost morbidly curious about what exactly you think it does have to do with, then!
I'll forgive you for strawmanning my position because I haven't fully articulated it. Of course capitalism is connected to every area of our everyday lives.
But, unpopular opinion incoming, people go out of their way to bring up capitalism in every thread and it gets old fast. You could have a thread on !AskLemmy about how hard it is to be a dog-walker, and there will be comments saying how OP wouldn't need to be a dog walker if it weren't for capitalism! Whether you think that's true or not is beside the point; this corner of the internet is always beating the dead horse called "capitalism bad".
When you become part of the "lucky 10000" the temptation to share your discovery will be strong.
I'm not saying I disagree with their general point.
FYI, restating your argument precisely and without changing context isn't "strawmanning."
Hmm, we may be talking past each other. I'm not disagreeing with OP's point that capitalism is a problem or even a problem for the internet. I'm saying that it gets brought up so often that its tiring. That's where the strawman comes in: they were arguing against a position that I didn't hold.
I took issue with your claim that this was "a thread that has nothing to do with economics or politics." That's clearly untrue, regardless of how "tiring" it is for you.
Also, by the way, what's happening now is not that we're talking past each other, but rather that you're backpedaling to try to save face.
Nah, I think I would know if I had changed positions. Even if you read my original comment, I'm complaining about how often capitalism is brought up when it doesn't need to be. But I'm not going to try to convince you because clearly your mind is made up.
Counterpoint: using the word "circlejerk" to disparage points we'd rather ignore is a really annoying thing to do.
When someone complains about capitalism or neoliberalism with something that doesn’t involve it, I always like to ask them to tell me the definition of the word without googling it.
Do internet strangers really play along with that? I would expect a very unproductive semantic argument.
That’s how they tend to go
Are you sure you're trying your hardest to understand what they actually mean?