HalfSalesman

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Emotionally I'm not inclined to place another iota of effort into politics. I feel like I've wasted 20 years of my life obsessing over it.

And with that I have zero desire to forgive anyone even slightly responsible for Trump's victory. I don't owe anyone shit, I did not choose to be born.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 13 hours ago

You can be repulsed at the voters & the top democrats at the same time. There is no rule saying you can't hate them both.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (6 children)

That's not an honest evaluation of reality. Its both leftwing activists and apolitical schmucks. And FUCK THEM BOTH.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

Yeah well if that's the case fuck him I'm not fighting in a deadly revolution because his type dragged me into a hell world.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

I don't know that I agree that you have to but sure that's not an unreasonable policy either. I guess it depends on the specifics for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

I'm sure you've heard this before but doing that under a first past the post voting system was painfully stupid.

And before you say I'm rude or causing a break down in leftist unity by calling you stupid: I'm not going to dance around my honest thoughts anymore. I don't care what happens anymore. My political tact has left my body because the world is probably fucking doomed now anyway so who cares.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

Thanks! I sometimes end up a little verbose but its nice that my inclination to ramble about this stuff is appreciated!

There are groups I'm already a part of, they don't meet that often though and in both groups I go to they're kind of not fertile ground for dating. I probably just need to expand a bit but there is a mental barrier to going somewhere new and worrying about being the newbie. New habits are hard to form.

The situation at my work place is messy for a number of reasons. Its a very small non-profit and there is even some ambiguity over if one woman I'm into and whether she is a "boss" or just an assistant to the real boss. Obviously if she has any real authority trying to date her is a massive no no but its not explicitly clear. And I mean, that's kind of frustrating just on the work side of things too if I'm honest.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Then why did not vote for her?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Assuming we're talking about a friend/acquaintance, a person can be genuinely sorry but sort of be too dim to meaningfully improve their behavior. That said, if they don't at least give a good faith effort to improve then my patience will wear thin and I'll probably want to be around them as little as possible, even if I end up ultimately forgiving them on the emotional side of things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Breaking it down, the 'no' comes basically from "Free will doesn't exist so no one can justly be punished and violence just causes pain and a cycle of more violence"

The 'yes' comes from "We're all dead one day anyway and it is intrinsically pleasurable to harm/kill people who have wronged me, my loved ones, or any innocent people. "

The latter is actually a more unethical embrace of pleasure.

On a broader scale though I'm against both the death penalty and revenge/vigilante killing, but I actually think the latter is comparatively less unethical in a vacuum. At least in the case of revenge/vigilante killing someone is getting something out of it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

We Millenials consumed Gen X made media and Gen Xer's pop cultural was very "Its fun to be cruel to weaklings and weirdos, be against consumerist modern life dweebs, and swear in front of old ladies. We're so punk."

Gen X 90's culture being all about being a renegade nihilistic slacker as a reaction to the 80's culture which was a lot more colorful, consumerist, and earnest at an almost saccharine level, even when it was trying to "rebel".

EDIT: To clarify, Millenials consumed edgelord stuff from Gen X, and homophobia was edgey.

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