So you’d rather have someone be hateful than kind? Like, I get it, MAGA deserves the hate. But is looking down on people for having a conscience really the best mentality to have? Would you call your mom a pussy because she felt bad for saying a curse word?
So are we supposed to just give up and just accept that every election is going to swing to the right now? Assuming they don’t rig elections, how are we expected to get people over to the other side if we treat them like garbage even if they realized they fucked up? I don’t think it’s very wise in this current situation to continue to make enemies when we are all in danger. The fact that people are breaking away should be a good thing and we should encourage it instead of just calling them stupid. If one of your friends joined a cult and managed to get out, would you be pissed at your friend for falling for it or be pissed at the cult that manipulated them? In cults there are always hierarchies and the majority of MAGA are not the people we see in podcasts and on the news. Those are the people in charge and are the ones that convince people to join for their own selfish reason by being loud and portraying themselves as the victims.
Seriously, go look up videos of people that were in cults and tell me that it’s their fault. There are people that would rather kill themselves than try and leave the cult because they are so scared. We only see this on a macroscopic scale while we never consider the small scale things going on all over the country. These people have literally been brainwashed and the people on the “outside” would rather call them stupid than give them a chance at fixing things. All that does is reinforce the idea that the cult is better because everyone else hates them.
Edit: I’m not saying we need to forgive them. All I’m saying is treat them like people instead of all of them being monsters.
That bonus alone is what I make in an entire year. Meanwhile these people are throwing it around like it’s chump change while saying I’m not allowed to have healthcare.
If cell phones weren’t as ubiquitous as they are now I can definitely see it not being an issue in the past. But with literally everything being online and on our phones I could easily see something going badly. Like, I don’t think you can even buy maps at gas stations or rest stops in the US these days and those things used to be everywhere. And without being able to use GPS, call someone, and in some peoples cases won’t even be able to buy anything since there are so many people that rely on things like Apple Pay, there are so many things that can go wrong with one point of failure. Most people wouldn’t even know what day of the month it is or even how much money they have without their phone.
One of the reasons I keep a map in my car, which I’ve actually had to use a couple times when my phone died on a long drive.
I think what my point is mostly about is that once one person does it for an arbitrary reason then everyone does it for an arbitrary reason. I guess I’d say that it breaks the trust of the commitment very easily. I’ve seen it with similar situations all the time. I have a discord server where I play games with all my friends and one day one of the people in the server disabled the ability to see what they were playing. Next thing you know everyone is hiding their activity and nobody knows what anyone is doing. Instead of being a feature that was sometimes disabled it turned into a feature that is sometimes enabled instead. And I’m not saying it’s a bad thing, just that it’s the way things go.
It seems like a good idea in theory but there are so many issues with this. First of all, it’s a good way to keep track of your friends and make sure they are safe, but at the same time if a stranger gets access to a phone they will know where all their friends are. That’d be a wet dream for stalkers. Secondly, it seems like it would be a good way to make sure your friends aren’t doing anything shady, but that also means if they are doing something that they don’t want their friends to see they could just leave their phone at home which is very dangerous. And if you just disable the tracking that immediately breaks the trust of the friendship even if it was just over being embarrassed about going to McDonalds three times in one day.
I get it if it’s a tight friend group, but as you get older you really start to notice some of your friends are just shitty people. I cut ties with more toxic people in my 20s than I ever thought I would have to. I could only imagine what some of them may have done if they could track my every move. I’ve had people I consider friends break into my house before I ever even noticed anything toxic about them.
Everything luxury that the elite get to take part in is at some point reliant on the working class that they despise so much. And if you live in a country where workers have had it relatively good for so long you can’t just take everything away that they have and expect them to still want to work. I’m just saying that these people are so detached from regular every day people that they think if they get rid of all the poor and working class people society will still somehow carry on without them.
For real. The only people that are surprised are the willfully ignorant. This shit has been a long time coming.
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Well, you did actually. You just decided to ignore what everyone was warning you about and call it “fear mongering.” People have been warning you since July of last year and you specifically chose to ignore it.
That gives “dad are you coming to pick me up from baseball practice” vibes.
And that’s how I used to be back in the day and that shit destroys your mental health. And when you do “slip” it’s always worse and more exaggerated because of the repressed feelings. I would think that there was something wrong with me and I hated that part of me. I wished that I was completely straight and would internally shame myself whenever I had “gay thoughts” because I thought it made me less of a man. But at the end of the day, nobody cares about how manly you are except for people that want to feel like they are better than you or people that want something from you.
The amount of “straight but curious” guys I’ve found out in the world is a little too high for that to be the case.
That’s kinda the situation I’m in too. Dating women has always been easier for me so according to everyone that knows me I’m hetero even though I’ve told them that I’m bi. They just can’t see it.
Yeah, I think you are right and I couldn’t find anything. I just find it highly suspicious that my dad is hardcore homophobic when more than half of his immediate family is gay or bisexual. Like, even his brother is gay.
Micro$oft is like the new EA. This is the exact same shit EA did 10 years back when they bought up dozens of studios, milked the shit out of them, and then closed the studio so the executives could get bonuses. Now EA has like, 5 studios that make games while the rest got gutted for the IP and then taken out back with a gun.
I feel like bisexuality is way more common than what we see. And if anything, I feel like the reason why so many women are more likely bi or willing to experiment vs men is literally just the bullshit stigma against being seen as gay.
And this may just be my experience, but being bisexual isn’t as easy as just choosing one or the other. The problem is that if you repress that much of your sexuality it only grows more… Intense. And sometimes more depraved, which is never a good thing. And I feel like that’s why a lot of those men end up getting caught doing “gay” things but it’s never just normal stuff. It’s always super crazy shit they get caught doing because it’s been repressed for so long that they make awful impulse decisions on feelings they’ve been ignoring for years. Like holding in your anger for 30 years and then going absolutely fucking mental when your coworker takes your parking spot.
As someone that used to be homophobic in highschool, I can confirm this is the case. My dad is super homophobic yet all of his kids, including myself, are at least bisexual.
And yet i still can’t click on icons on the taskbar to bring up a window that is behind another. Gotta use “alt+tab” until I get to the window I want to show up. At first I just thought it was my PC at work but I later found out that it’s every PC in the entire building. It’s absolutely infuriating that features that’ve worked for 30 years are now suddenly broken in Windows 11. I started migrating to Linux for my home PC and it has only made me hate Windows even more when I go into work.
I’m not saying it’s a bad thing. I’m just saying that making fun of people for having a conscience about it is just being a shitty person. The people that deserve the hate don’t have a conscience about it and 100% deserve the hate.