SnotFlickerman
No the fucking dipshits who raised me selfishly put their own dreams as a priority at the expense of me.
I was a mistake and I knew it from a young age, especially with how much they valued material things over me.
Sweet username, fellow Three Amigos fan.
Nothing, this is the internet, and the kind of things that would prove I'm real would compromise my pseudo-anonymity on the internet.
Also, I don't owe that to anyone. I'm not in a position of authority, I'm just some fucking dingus on the internet. Hell, I don't even moderate any communities (unless you count a completely dead Joe Pera community).
If people really want to live life assuming everyone they come into contact with on the internet that has a differing opinion must be a paid actor or an AI, that's on them. I came to Lemmy to get away from that.
I don't do that, and I think it's pathetic that people do. I give others the charitable interpretation of them being a real human because assuming everyone is paid or an AI is some real "they're out to get me" stuff which in itself is some serious narcissistic shit.
My point is that you're failing to recognise how omnipresent your culture and politics have been on the global stage for decades, along with your literal presence in our conversations.
Well said.
Ah, there's that arrogance.
US citizen here, sounds like you have already figured it out:
And I know that America is a very individualistic culture that focuses on the self and the belief that everyone can achieve anything on their own.
This goes deep into the heart of the matter. A good portion of the population has been propagandized for literally decades that every man is an island and reliance on others is "pussy shit." There is no conception of society. No one wants to fix society, they all want to become rich so the rules of society just stop applying to them.
Temporarily embarrassed ~~millionaires~~ billionaires and all that.
For those of us with empathy and understanding of how economics and international relations actually function, let me tell you, it is a nightmare on our mental health. It has been that way long before Trump, too, I remember how viciously we wasted the world's outpouring of compassion after 9/11. In response to that compassion we went and swung around our big military dick in the middle east and wrecked millions upon millions of lives. It is a daily endless gaslighting by society that caring about people makes us weak. We often are literally denied opportunities to thrive because we aren't following the right "script." We will be passed over for jobs in favor of nepotism and social connections.
Like literally the entire fraternity/sorority culture in the US is and always was for forging early business connections so you can be a useless fucking loser but still rise to the top.
That culture has lead to the worst, dumbest, and least competent running the entire fucking country.
A lot of days it really feels like it would just be easier to let this system fucking kill me and let it win just to get it over with.
Somehow, though, people like me continue living out of spite for what America is and what it represents.
I finally watched Pantheon. It was really good. Although I do wish more of the animation in the uploaded world was more deeply abstract. They didn't lean enough into that, imho
I am not the one who asked for Republican answers, so I don't know why someone would expect many to be here at all.
Like I said, I would expect an empty comment section, not one filled with non-Republicans answering.
Chaos is a ladder.