What things do you bitterly cling to?
Sports team? Political ideology? TV Show? Guns? God? Cheesecake? 80s Music? Feta? Cooking Shows?
The idea that people can learn to be less shitty… LOL. Seriously. I still think humanity can be better… it’s not rational or reasonable, but that’s me. It’ll probably be the death of me, but that’s what I cling to.
“Evil Will Always Triumph because Good Is Dumb” -Dark Helmet
Otherwise, it’s open thread/threat.
That the men who oppose women’s rights are deeply afraid that women will treat men the way that these men get away with treating women.
To be fair… they should be treated like shit till they realize how shitty they’ve been… but they never do.
Being 13-22 was better before modern social media. Like sure we all did dumb shit, and some of us have photos, but the prevalence of social media wasn’t there haunting you for teenage shenanigans. Or bullying.
I guess there’s no need to document every stupid thing I’ve done in my life so that AI can steal it.
i still believe most people want to help
ive never seen evidence of it yet tho
so i just throw people at the problem…ha! its good to be big
I’m not a big person like you Dutch Folk tend to be but I’ve had to kick people who are supposed to be responsible for things into doing the right thing.
…I dunno…I kinda hope everyone thinks they are…but…I’ve been lucky with the friends who’d maybe count
…nothing that needs a cut…nobody trying to be the warriors or anything…but…I have friends, plural, that I’ve known longer than a sibling of mine…& they’re not the sort of people who show up when you’re not dressed with a headless corpse in the back seat…& I don’t know any of the sort of cleaners that people like leon & nikita have on speed-dial…but…I dunno…I’d at least hear them out?
…but…less facetiously…bit like the “people can be better” thing…I know I can’t do much about much of it…but there’s ways life is just hard…no getting around those…that’s just life…but…then there’s the so-many-more ways that we collectively find to make life just unnecessarily harder than it needs to be…& in a bunch of ways that’s a distinction without a difference…but I imagine I shall go to my grave finding it broadly impossible not to find the one sort make me…mad enough it stops feeling like that’s constructive…it’s just something about people saying [thing that if you think about it at some point you’re forced to define as a thing that doesn’t really exist outside the minds of people] is as immutably “just the way it has to be” as sunset following sunrise that makes me want to try to explain why that just isn’t “necessarily” true in the sense of that people use about as often as they mean scrupulously exact when they say “nice”
…other than that…we don’t respect language like we should…familiarity breeds contempt & all but it’s just so damn easy to take that shit for granted & a good way to get hurt is to play with tools you don’t pay attention to…accident of hourly proof & all…nuance is apparently incompatible with email let alone other text/message systems so people take shit the wrong way all the time & sometimes there’s drama…but…the “we can game the narrative & that’s the whole job” school of politics…we’ve been playing stupid games for stupid prizes for so long it’s like these people think not knowing all the “known knowns” about how & why how it’s all supposed to work are heavily-documented networks of those chesterton’s fences…&…I think I’d be more concerned if that stopped being able to wind me right up?
I wish people were a little less shitty to each other. make life easier for everyone. But that’s me… a delulu dreamer.
oh i dont know mate….you getting wound up about chesterstom fencese…suggests we still have a normal society
maybe you are right
me personally..i think we are in the upside down and about to find out how fucked the rabbit hole can really get
but seriously tho…ill be the first to die in case of zombies
i just want to help
if thats too much to ask…why bother
Me too. I’ve been told I’m not “hard” enough to make tough choices (in a managerial interview of all things!)
For some reason, I got interviewed by the most insecure man in Nortel. It sill pissed me off, but I realize that I am a nice guy by nature. i just keep all the dark side of my personality hidden away till I need it.
“i just keep all the dark side of my personality hidden away till I need it.”
That’s how most, if not all, us women get by.
Sugar and spice and everything nice!
AHAHAHHAHAHAHHAAHHAAHHA as if!
girls dont fart
*watches missus take off in to space*
oh…. you foul beast
…like they say…it’s nice to be nice…& I generally do try…& part of the nice is sometimes you feel like someone’s day maybe could have been worse but wasn’t & that’s on you instead of you needing to be sorry for making something worse
…but I guess I think it only takes you so far & then maybe angry is appropriate…but…dunno where I first heard it & maybe it was lifted from some religion or other…either way someone once told me the way they thought about it was they knew when they were angry…& if when they thought about it they understood why & they agreed with themself about it being a good enough reason to be angry on purpose then maybe there was something to it
…if they only wanted to do something or say something *because* they were angry…that they otherwise wouldn’t…& they couldn’t convince themselves the angry was the sort they’d be on purpose…then they figured there was probably someone or something that wanted them to be angry & if it hadn’t made itself known it probably didn’t deserve to get to make you?
…kind of one of those easier said than done deals…but I kinda thought I could see what he meant?
I think I get where you’re coming at. I’ve had ‘nice’ bosses who I had to (almost literally) kick into action, but I’ve also had to do things I didn’t want to like give someone a warning letter who I had been friendly with because he wasn’t doing his job.
From what I learned later was that he wanted someone who would terrorize people on a day to day basis (because that’s what he did.)
In a strange twist… A few years later, I was the one who ended up destroying his career.