People disagree constantly on here. Sometimes even argue...but things mostly remain civil, because this place has common decency (and blocking takes care of the rest).

Amazing what happens when comments to every post isnt just flooded with ad, bots, and trolls.

Heck, I wouldn't even mind having arguments with "real" RWers... it's the infestation of the rest of what you listed that makes it an exercise in futility to engage anyone on most other social media.

at least bluesky is mostly populated by fans of observable objective reality. a claim X or truth social DEFINITELY can't make.

Because bots can't yell back. They need us.

Crazy guy says I need to spend my time arguing with him? Well, I guess I have no choice then. 🤷🏻‍♂️

(Can’t find him, must’ve already blocked him. 😇 🧘‍♂️ 😃)

Come Lose Your Fucking Mind Go Apeshit And Scream On BlueSky sells better than The Everything App

When do we take our pills, I want mine with vodka

Look at my pinned post, just saying

Like to sit down with whoever this guy is, and he can read insane posts he finds on BS, and I'll read the most unhinged stuff I see on twitter. Let's see how that ends.

I'm actually cool with not arguing with idiots 🤷🏿‍♂️

ARROGANT humans need to argue. Well-balanced humans like to conspire against d3ath cults and racist bigots 😼

“Digital Insane Asylum” will be my second studio album.

If it was a name of a band, you probably wouldn't want to play after they've performed.

It's two levels after Neutral Milk Hotel.

Zohran’s Socialist Agenda: Social Media Without Antagonism

Yup it’s SO lovely not having literal gaggles of triggered MAGA bros troll my Facebook account as “punishment” for daring to be an unmarried, liberal, nonbinary person in general. At first I worried about the “bubble” I might be making here, but mannnnn peace of mind and knowing I’m not alone is 👌👌👌

It's the best left wing echo chamber this town has ever seen

Zak has managed to squeeze a career out of grooming himself in a right wing mrror.

I refuse to believe that someone is named Zak Asgard

100% that's some phony screen name for Heritage Foundation (or equivalent) troll farmer.

😂😂😂Random idiots

“Digital insane asylum” bestie say more

It is so funny because insane asylums are definitely places where everybody is on the same page and gets along just fine.

Grippy sock gang!

*John Wayne voice* Happy Socialist Friday fellow liberals

In my best New Yorker accent: TGIFF Thank God its Fuck’em Friday

Logging into the digital lunatic asylum ❤️ “The Bimaristans were described by European travellers, who wrote about their wonder at the care and kindness shown to lunatics. In 872, Ahmad ibn Tulun built a hospital in Cairo that provided care to the insane, which included music therapy.”

None of these inmates want to debate over the what is to be done with the Jews, how frightful!

This just in, hating Nazis is crazy

the only blue skies you’ll be seeing are through narrow 3-inch slits cause buddy you’re locked in here with us

There's a 2 in my code!

Humans need to argue? Um ... No.

Zak assguard needs to STFU and stop blaming Bluesky for his wife leaving him for Tyrone

They are mad that there is a social media site that doesn't want MAGA and racist trolls hanging around? They want this place to turn into that bigoted quicksand of X? Heavens to Betsy! They better clutch those pearls and white knuckle them.

“Zak Asgard” is this an actual person?

Its obviously an anagram for the dreaded Drag Sakaz Lordicus Edgeicus.

Hey I think I know that guy.

I roll to disbelieve!

There’s a lot of diversity on this app. Some want billionaires stripped of their money and exiled. Some want them stripped of their money and shot. And a wide range of ideas between those two things. I love it here.

😹

I just want ‘em taxed and held accountable to existing laws, but all those destinations are in the same direction and we can argue where to stop the train once we’re well out of Mordor.

(I’m aware this makes me a right-wing extremist by bsky standards)

I’m gonna have to inspect your BlueSky papers. 📄 ❓

😞 🪪

*begrudgingly accepts after much scrutiny and cross-checking*

Uh, see, you're already showing your blind spot. You forgot "eat them".

I have a lot to learn about retribution! Thank you for pointing that out in a respectful manner.

Meanwhile

Zak’s Ass-guard

Agreed - gotta love triggering the right wing snowflakes.

It’s great, no angry, insecure and hateful MAGAs. We can have actual, intelligent dialogue and even throw in some humor.

I might need to have a discussion for clarity's sake, but I can't see needing to argue anything with some random Zak on the internet. Easier for me to block him, and then find a better use of my time, like enjoying two scoops of ice cream. Why argue when there's ice cream to eat, hmmm?

Yeah but nobody is really using this website, it's still niche. Maybe if Musk sinks X

Written by an AI probably

The only way you have a productive argument is if the person you are having the conversation with is living in the same reality.

lol lol lol lol lol lol

In reality I think this is correct (earliest reference I could find, maybe the original?) bsky.app/profile/good...

We've got a better theme song then the KKKclub of Meta and X. Just stating facts.

Aww the trolls are boooorrreeeedd

I'm waiting for my "Sickos" straitjacket from the Online Store.

Nazis and racists outside the bar begging to be let in because the people inside “need to argue with them” and the people in the bar are like “nah, we’re good here.”

Listen I get blocked all the time for being a Swiftie. There is so much engagement on here! 😂😂😂

Zak Assguard may I suggest you stop looking in the mirror whilst talking to imaginary left wing intellectuals?😁🇨🇦🇨🇦🍁

lol. Sorry we don’t like to use Nazi powered social media.

"social media isn't getting enough engagement which is how they base their ad revenue" Fixed it for them.

1) Zak Asgard is not a real name 2) No. Arguing is a waste of time 3) Action, not arguing, changes things.

I mostly agree (and for context I'm in the minority that have never been a twitter poster), but I'm going to play devil's advocate: 1) He could have changed it from Assguard. cont. ⏬️

2) If conducted civilly, respectfully and between reasonably open minded people (none applicable to most on the far-right) debate can help change or broaden minds. See the dialetic, or all ancient greek philosophy really...

3) True, but if you persuade more people, your opponents or onlookers/audience that you are right, then more will take action. Which is why I'm glad to report I've seen many arguments in my 6+ months on Bluesky, undermining this bloke's premise.

If it results in change, you might be misnaming it. Debate is healthy and changes minds and hearts. Arguing causes fights.

Debate is not the same as arguing. See I’m debating a point, which not a hill I would die on, but just mentioning that something is thought of differently if it has a different name associated with it.

The devil needs no advocates.

True, already has too many, but sometimes can't help myself. You're not wrong, obviously argument has a stronger connotation, but honestly I've heard the terms used interchangeably often enough to think there's a certain overlap. One person's argument is another's spirited debate and so on...

There’s a reason why …some people…are using those words interchangeably, and I would bet it is not accidental. ‘We play how we practice.’ If people started using slurs interchangeably with descriptors, it would be more obvious, but they have to start somewhere, right?

The GOP bots are dunging the internet fields, trying to spread misinformation far and wide

There's a need for debate and a need to argue. One results in better understanding, the other is a screaming match. I prefer learning.

Why the fuck do we need to argue? We need to learn. It’s necessary to learn and keep learning even as you get older. But we don’t need to argue. Arguing raises cortisol levels, stress, blood pressure, destroys relationships and keeps people apart. We can educate, we can communicate, and we can learn

Nothing good comes from talking to your friends. Humans need to hang out with Zak.

Someone who calls BlueSky an “insane asylum” while X exists, is not a good faith interlocutor.

I’m cool with having elevated conversations with strangers. But arguing takes intellect and that’s just absent on other platforms.

Twitter has become the social media equivalent of Ashley Madison. Just a bunch of lonely men talking into the void to a bunch of bots.

Maybe there will be a mass data leak for this one too

And a startling lack of girlbot-on-girlbot hooking up, as was documented happening at Ashley Madison by a reporter from Jezebel (who now works for the New Yorker.)

Don’t forget mechahitler.

Hahaha! They are pissed they are getting treated the same online as IRL. Sorry babes, but I don’t met Nazis in my life anywhere. They are also pissed nobody buys their BS and they get dragged in the comments every time they are dumb on here.

MAGA slagging Bluesky? Mirror mirror on the wall tell me all the reasons I just don’t care…

As someone with a past in tech support...aren't we all talking to a mirror? IYKYK

It's funny because people argue on here all the god damn time. Leftist infighting is infamous.

It is an inmate human need to argue with inane Russian bots and conspiracy theorists, of course.

Nothing good comes from talking to a mirror? Tell that to Stuart Smalley.

Gosh darnit, I like you!

My timeline is already something like out of 'MAD' magazine and that's just the way I like it.

LOL, the appeal of BluSky is the absence of Hate.

Absolutely insane that they think what happens on here isn't arguing

Has he even been on Bluesky? We argue all the time -- just not with bots, trolls and the voices in people's heads.

Nothing good comes from arguing with hardcore MAGA. They’re too far gone.

One article about how we are an echo chamber and how it will destroy us? shame on us An article a week about how we are an echo chamber and how it will destroy us? Lmao on you

Something Jay/Rose/Bluesky should do (and soon) is show the dichotomy between the hallucinated discourse around this site (like this article) and what’s _actually_ happening on Twitter right now. I’d pay a monthly subscription for Bluesky if that’s how they used the funds.

after all, insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society.

By arguing that "no they don't, weirdo" I'm playing right into his hand

100% agree. Especially when the incels are outside crying that nobody wants to talk with them.

"I shall banish you from Asgardia for your impertenance, Bluesky man." -- Zak Asgard (soggy man on the street)

Someone needs to design cool DIA merch.

Rad?!

bsky.app/profile/tarz...

How long before Trump thinks all the asylum seekers are coming from Bluesky?

I cannot believe an actual human being was named the surname "Asgard". I bet they had it changed to play the Nordic Nazi fanboi game...

harry potter fan (TERF Nazi), loved the dementors prison.

She TOTALLY did. She wrapped up her series on a very downer note when she had Harry Potter - a kid who was supposed to be 'Everyman' - into an effing MAGIC COP.

Yes, it’s terrible here. Stay away from us you might become insane or infected with sensibility.

Call me crazy, but I’m not interested in arguing with Nazis, pederast defenders and treasonous racist pigs.

you weirdo 🤣🤣🤣

I don’t get it. Like, do people expect me to walk into a nazi bar to argue? No. So, why would we do the virtual equivalent on Twitter? And, you won’t even be interacting with real people half the time. Bluesky is sanity and those addicted to drama are jealous of our normal interactions.

"Zak Asgard" I'm tired of these alien goddlings coming to my planet and taking all the human superhero jobs.

Sick are arguing with Nazis or Hitler AI? Well fuck you selfish bubble person either you spend all day arguing with Nazis or the terrorists win. Media is on top of the important stuff here.

Hold on. “Zak Asgard”?

Zak Asgard sounds like a rejected name for Loki’s dog groomer

Sadly, with the head moderator jackin' it on company time and not protecting the marginalized community that built this webbed site (the transexual cluster)... I don't think leaning into it will really resolve the issues the site has.

Because I'd rather stay here With all the madmen Than perish with the sad men roaming free And I'd rather play here With all the madmen For I'm quite content they're all as sane as me… youtu.be/KrlvgARHdzc?...

🧐 That's right we don't argue, we debate. When we disagree we don't just say "fk you, my sky daddy said so," *Punches Drywall*

They're SO pissed off at the nuclear block. Exudes tiny-peen manchild vibes.

You’re wrong. 😑

Thinking that humans NEED to argue is a weird belief to have... we definitely don't NEED to argue. We do like to have intelligent and productive discussions without being insulted and told we should die, though.

Arguing with them is like beating your head against a brick wall.

And not in a fun way.

😂 no.

I don't know I paid good money for an argument, sadly I got turned around and found myself in the getting hit in the head class

I'm lefter than most and don't agree with a whole lot of folks here, but I'd rather see someone's moderate policy views and think how do we move them left vs a Nazi chat bot telling me hitlers got good ideas and give myself an aneurysm screaming at a computer... Just sayin

That's me. I hate tRump

If this place an “insane asylum” when mechahilter is running rampant on the bad place just call me crazy

They sound really jealous

There are so, so many places we can go if we want to argue.

Waste of time to argue with people who crave attention more than truth

I've noticed some people really enjoy arguing. It's an adrenaline rush for them I guess. I love Bluesky because I can mute them and I can block them.

skill issue on op's part. the only thing i do here is argue with people (in good faith. im not a pervert.)

Amazing how much better my life has gotten since I stopped arguing with stupid people.

Amen

If he wanted an argument then he could have just agreed with someone in a slightly wrong way

No need to argue when you have the intellectual capacity for discussion. Let them shout incoherent gobbledygook into the void on that other site.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 that guy must be a jackass. Happy Friday!

It's like our own little version of Le Roi De Coeur!

"Humans need to argue" is such a telling take. After all, without an argument how can anyone prove their superiority?

I only joined because I was told it was 12 liberals talking to each other. is that not the case?

I've been saying I'm in an insane asylum for years! Validation is #TheGays® dream.

Related— the experience and insights recounted here by the eminent Anne Applebaum: bsky.app/profile/anne...

Yes. This is what I'm seeing in my bubble.

This is probably one of the most appropriate uses of "eminent" I've ever encountered

sometimes you just need to hang out in a padded room for a while

Tastes Great!

We are all joker mode on here. No place for the weak

Relax Az Dark Gas

Zak Asgard? Dirk nirvana?

Right?

It’s funny how they’re, however, not saying a word about how Twitter is now just a 4chan nazi forum.

We argue here… we argue over who in the regime and what MAGAt is the dumbest of them all… Mirror Mirror on the wall, who is the dumbest of them all (the regime, Fox, SCOTUS and/or MAGA)

Nobody journalist seeks favor with Musk and Zuckerberg by trashing Blusky

This guy going to a Zen monestary "ITS A MADHOUSE! A MADHOUSE!!!"

Bluesky: The conversations are insaaaaane!

Awww nobody likes Zak.

zac ass-gourd

No. I don’t need to argue with nazis. They’re Nazis.

I like to say “I don’t need to listen to hate to be informed” but I like yours better.

since I can’t punch them via the internet I just block them.

Dude got called Zack Ass-guard and wrote a whole article about it

Dude has his account locked so you can’t tell him to F himself.

ROFLMAO digital insane asylum!? Yup we are in sane. The haters are completely out of sane.

Free PR is the best PR.

Somebody didn’t love “zak” enough when it was a kid…clearly nothing has changed there 😆 We still don’t

Is Zak on twitter?

Couldn’t tell you. I left twitter( after being there for under a month way before the last election). I’d assume so since all I saw there were magats and nazis…one and the same!

I can't take anyone whose last name is a mythical Norse realm seriously lol.

In these moments, I like to remind myself that writers like Zak only get paid if they write something, and like everyone else they have bills to pay, so sometimes they end up writing some really f****** stupid s***.

“The reality/evidence based community MUST interact with and take seriously the ideas of the cynically-motivated bad faith actors and the magical thinkers!”

I hear voices in my head urging me to show compassion and empathy to everyone, regardless of their race, religion, ethnicity, or sexual orientation.

And the inmates are running it!

The Discover Feed is now The Asylum feed.

Yes! Make it so!

Talking to a mirror is better than living in an echo chamber.

These articles sound like "everyone was hanging out and having fun. Everyone was friends. I was not invited"

"they refuse to entertain my blanket denial of reality!"

Surely Zak has tried creating a Bluesky account and being really normal with it.

...and then found himself on a block list or was so routinely blocked, he thought the app was quiet or broken.

Make the logo a red phoenix rising from a blue bird's corpse.

Exactly! We have discourse here. Trying to discuss politics with FB friends is hard, and just commenting on a national post, CNN for instance, brings out the bots and trolls.

Are you kidding me with that name? “Zak Asgard”?

LOL . . .

Translation: Why is no one liking my posts?🙁

You want to yell and get yelled at go to Muskrat's site or Zukkkerberg's site. We have planning to do to eliminate you turds.

Bsky should do another million T-shirt sale to raise money off this.

10/10 would buy! Front: The digital insane asylum (blue butterfly, Alf, etc.) Back: Come join us -- we have spooders! (picture of cute spider.)

“Come on in!”

More like ASSgard if you ask me

Ain't pushing against that label. We need to lean in. Or we could always go always make your point about finance in the YouTube comment section of a music video.

Calling us insane is like calling asylum seekers at the border insane.

Heh. Ass guard. Heh.

It’s more lucid than Tumblr, that’s for sure!

I've never been in an insane asylum before. Much less frantic masturbation on my end than I anticipated.

Zak Asgard? Really? I'd have guessed Asshat.

Downside: It's a padded room. Upside: Pillowfort!!

Zak Asgard:

Ass clown

These motherfuckers don't want to argue. They hide in their safe spaces, banning any objection as bots, or paid opposition, or whatever other excuse. They don't have the brains to argue with us. They insult. They troll. They spew hate. But they lack the capacity to argue.

Clearly we should listen to this expert in his early 20s.

Seconded: We need a catchphrase though: "More Random Than Grandma's Junk Drawer" Or something.

Zak Asgard sounds like a made up name on a FB ad-fraud bot account

❤️I feel validated that I am in the right place ❤️

Big same…

uh, no we don't!

The reason MAGAs like to argue on line is because all their friend and family member has had enough of their ignorance and don’t even want the Maga Machine around them . If they want to hear what MAGA has to say, they’ll just turn in Faux Gnus, because they know MAGAs aren’t capable of thinking .

Yup, your true!

Who are you to argue with the creator of The Wimble?

We call that a 'zine in the Real World, Zak!

Where is Zak? I'm happy to get into an argument, I mean dialogue with him here😉 If I wanted to argue with RWNJ conspiratorial morons aka "Cookers" as in Australian terms, I'd be wasting time, energy and oxygen over on the platform that is home to and a megaphone for that ilk. That platform being X

That is better than a $1 million mission statement

How DARE all those different people get along together and NOT WANT us

Just curious; were there any pieces like this when Truth Social was launched? 🤔

There's something especially funny about calling this place an asylum, all while begging to be let inside.

Zak talking out of his ass.

He can't, he guards it too well... *Da-dum Tss* Sorry, I will see myself out now.

he has to guard it because he gives very strong "wiping your ass is homoerotic" vibes and doesn't want to be tempted.

Lots of arguing occurs here. It's just not arguing into a pointless vortex of nothing.

Haha "sorry" we let X turn into an echo chamber of agreeable mirrors than only argue about how much Nazi to be. I find this place of similar minds to be a relief from the rage trolling I used to engage in.

Society is produced by our wants & government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. One encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first a patron, the last a punisher. - Thomas Paine

TBF the group think on a lot of issues on this platform is completely exhausting.

Like what, for example?

Pretty much any topic. Try to engage in debate and people just steamroll and throw insults at you.

You found that to be the case here? Strange, I haven't found it to be that way at all.

People are enjoying themselves here and it makes them so mad

It's not even true. I argue with losers on here all the time. Obviously not as much as when I was on Twitter but there's still discussion here

I'm not left wing and despise MAGA and Xitter

I’m sure I would have a thoughtful, reasonable debate with an incel nazi troll who doesn’t wash his hands after he pees.

but then they would have to stop banning all the Palestinians

I haven’t really argued with anyone on here, but have had spirited debates. And you know how they ended? With respectful mutual understanding. Sometimes I learn something, sometimes they do, but we always walk away better for it. The right can’t fathom anyone else’s perspective being worth hearing.

Thankfully the left has always been known as a unified block with no arguments or divisions within nonesoever

Zak Ass-Guard

“Humans need to argue” - undesirable idiot with nothing of value to offer society.

🫨 WeLcOme to ThE DiGiTal iNsaNE AsYLum 🫨

But it’s so hard to converse with those who are morally objectionable humans who are intellectually incapable of recognizing bs.

Bsky needs to adopt numetal aesthetics; just keep making gifs and pics of staff wearing straight jackets and goggles

I’m down. Gonna start modge podging my own NuMetal/Metalcore BSky mask now.

POV: you’re a dril skeet I’m about like and share

Yes, but also: Is it just that they've started to feel lonely over there? Like, Musky can't actually be directly paying for all these shills, right? Are they realizing that we gave up on arguing with their toxic, bad faith nonsense, and that they hate each other when there's not someone to sealion?

If you want to argue with hateful bigots and bots, go to Twitter. If you want to argue with someone who's just a smidgen left or right of you, come to Bluesky. We don't call each other slurs here 🌈✨️

I wouldn’t even call it arguing; exchange of different opinions or thoughtful discourse/exchange of ideas. The idea that people sharing different opinions has to either be agreeing or arguing is so weird. Decency and respect for others also comes into play and not many on Twitter seem to get it.

That's MOSTLY true, but not 100%.

Yep. My only criteria for blocking is for the use of insulting language and hate speak, something I rarely run into here amongst fellow leftists. Conversely the only people I've actually had to block are MAGA types, who's vocabulary is clearly limited to the use of objectionable language.

If only magats would really argue. They only spew magat talking points and completely ignore facts. Corporate propaganda has killed real discourse, not bluesky.

Ass Guard is already a brand

"Deep-down, humans need to get into flame wars on an app whose AI was turned into Mecha-Hitler."

Don't talk to me until I've had my morning "someone called me the f-slur for liking AEW."

that's been one of the stranger discoveries i've had in my time with bluesky. every few weeks there's this surge of non-wrestling people that shit all over AEW fans for watching fake wrestling.

It's mostly shitlibs who think all wrestling is WWE and therefore Linda McMahon is to blame.