Chad

Lily, 22 / I just want peace but god keeps choosing violence / pretty vocal about my opinions, always open to new ideas and evidence

[haveyoumetmythief]

Kinda digging the concept of "sitcom universes are fundamentally stable. Every episode, the stage resets, problems are solved, and things reset to the way they started" as a horror trope

[uniteds]

normal country

[letitrainathousandflames]

Y'know, some people do have a strong crying response to stress, and they might cry (even against their own will) when faced with an upsetting situation and that doesnt mean they are "gaslighting" or "manipulating" you.

There are people who use crying as a manipulation tactic? Absolutely. But that doesn't mean that every person that cries during a heated argument is trying to get under your skin. They have their own emotions and issues, and frankly, not everything other people do is a personal attack on you.

[tokeepstuff]

[chiribomb-deactivated20220820]

Jfc I am not surprised OP got shitty responses, but like, if your reaction to this post is to immediately look for ways in which you can misinterpret and misapply it in order to be self-righteous on the internet, then I have some terrible news for you about who is actually engaging in incredibly manipulative and dishonest behaviour here. Hint: it’s not OP and it’s not people who cry easily.

[blasesaint]

[teslacoils-and-hubris]

saw an ant on the bus today, what a horrible fate. moved an unfathomable distance from everything you've ever known because of forces you could never possibly understand. no matter how long you follow the pheromone trail you laid you'll never find your way home.

[teslacoils-and-hubris]

Did the spider that made a web in my cars mirror survive being barreled down the highway at light speed? Can insects feel fear in a way we understand? If I think too hard about this I start wondering if this is what the other side of a lovecraftian story looks like. An ant lost on the bus.

[teslacoils-and-hubris]

Don't you dare do this to me

[femmeharlequin-deactivated20240]

>:3c

[guiltyfilthycasuals]

I can solve this millennial or gen z confusion

If you had any of the following phones as a teenager you’re a millennial. If you started teenage years with an iPhone you’re gen z.

[sabertoothwalrus]

see also: did you need to carry around a separate device to listen to your music with which had no speakers so if you forgot headphones you were fucked

[beautifulsnake2162020]

Oh my gosh I miss my flip phone and the slide phone (I used to think it was so cool to slide it around) and I lowkey miss the BlackBerry even though I never had one but I used to play the hangman game on my father’s Blackberry.

Up until now I still wish I would have the sidekick phone or at least somethin similar to the LG model pictured here.

[iamsexytrash]

my first phone was a cheap ass 20 dollar flip phone from dollar general. and that was in 2007 and only for emergencies cause my schools took out all the payphones.

[natalieironside]

The student loan debt thing got me thinking. Fuck the founding fathers of course, but "I am compelled to study war and politics so that my sons might have liberty to study philosophy and mathematics" is a great line and I think about it every time some fool starts complaining that life doesn't suck as much as it used to

[natalieironside]

"Kids today have it so easy!"

Yeah, Einstein, that's kinda the whole idea

[prinxe-with-no-crown]

and im pretty sure the second half of the quote is smth like "so that their sons might have liberty to study arts"

[clockworkdragonffxiv]

"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain." 

- John Adams

[midnightssea]

Apparently people are claiming the term “chronically online” is problematic because it downplays the struggles of chronic illness. and as a chronically ill person lemme just say that take is the definition of being chronically online

[cardassiangoodreads]

Also the whole premise of the joke is that chronic/terminal illness is bad. It's not "downplaying" that, it's making a point about how much being too online fucks with your brain by comparing it to a well-acknowledged bad thing. It's like when people think that the "murder, rape and talking in the theater" joke is somehow saying murder and rape are not horrible things. People need to learn what "downplaying" actually is vs. when the whole point is that you're comically exaggerating something else by comparison with a thing that we all know is very serious!

[greelin]

people fighting tooth and nail to make the human body a pristine, frozen thing when it is in fact ever-changing and often gross by nature… where is the affection. the respect. let that thing breathe

[allshipsareok]

Adults are allowed to be upset when minors call them slurs.

Adults are allowed to confront minors who send them death threats.

Adults are allowed to hold minors accountable for toxic behaviour, that's not "embarassing" or "immature" or "pathetic".

If you're old enough to use the internet unsupervised, you're old enough to handle criticism and backlash for your actions.

[daily-lifeprotips]

When people make disparaging comments, just say thank you.

“You’ve gain weight” “Thank you” “…”

Then they have to either settle with being misunderstood or double down and explicitly explain that they were intentionally being unkind.

I work at a church and religious people use coded language to say crummy things in camouflaged/passive aggressive ways. Today someone told me, “that was an…interesting sermon…”

“Thank you.” <smile>

Then I got to watch them squirm as they tried to decide how to respond.

Tl;dnr: when people are passive aggressive, just say thank you.

[am-i-evil-yet]

I do a variation of this to anyone making a passive aggressive comment about someone not there. Really makes people squirm without you feeling awkward about ‘standing up’ for others. For example:

Person: “yeah, but then she gained a lot of weight 😒”

Me: “Oh, good for her!”

[yenvengerberg]

the fact that anyone dying can cost a nation up to 6 billion pounds is actually absurd

[fishyandclintbarton]

Just as an fyi - it would cost around £3billion to nationalise the Big Five energy companies, which would mean affordable gas & electricity for all and an end to the current energy crisis in the UK.

[kipplekipple]

Also they will EACH cost £6 billion. One person dying is costing us £12 billion.

[thenib]

Kendra Wells.

[shroom-n-doom]

okay fine, I think matt smith is a good actor and I really liked his portrayal of the doctor (even though he suffered the weakest writing)

[luisonte]

Gimli intensifies

[missbaphomet]

Doesn't it feel rather telling that the one thing radfems hate more than anything is a woman who desires things that don't promote their goals? They fucking hate it when a woman chooses what makes her the most happy, whether it's being a housewife or a mother or engaging in kink activities. They don't care about women, they care about their own agenda. Radfems will gladly trample you and your desires under the guise of liberating you because God forbid a woman have the free will to make choices that aren't feminist enough.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

People like normal-horoscopes have a vested interest in giving Nazis more power over symbols, because it justifies Nazi-fighting efforts. It’s the Ankh-Morpork Fireman problem.

 “Ankh-Morpork no longer had a fire brigade. The citizens had a rather disturbingly direct way of thinking at times, and it did not take long for people to see the rather obvious flaw in paying a group of people by the number of fires they put out. The penny really dropped shortly after Charcoal Tuesday.”

Things like this actually happened in history, BTW.

Yes, corvidaeDream, you are certainly asking yourself that question too frequently.

As in, at all. 

[askcherrypie]

These are the people 4chan preys upon for laughter.

The OK Sign being about “white power”? A 4chan joke that the press took seriously, THEN was adopted by actual white-power groups, and NOW is supposedly a “legitimate” white-power symbol. Which was exactly what 4chan’s jokesters wanted to see if they could do.

“Well that was easy,” they said, and promptly did the same with milk-drinking, claiming that it was tied to lactose-intolerance and therefore in some EXTREMELY ridiculous sort of reach was a “white power” gesture. It was promptly picked up and flogged by a media still hungry for stories that would make people gasp in shock and pay attention long enough for their ad revenue to kick in, and since so many news outlets had “vetted” the story it got picked up and flogged by anti-racism activist groups. This time, it wasn’t even adopted by actual white-power types, who openly mocked the concept as stupid.

Ah, but by DOING so, they gave news outlets the opportunity to claim that white-power groups DID use it as a symbol and were “just trying to hide” it!

I have an image for all of you to consider when faced with such matters:

[siryouarebeingmocked]

I’ve seen at least one person - who is , of course, a socialist - go “okay, X STARTED as trolling, but ACTUAL Nazis started using it, so it’s completely tainted, even though the Nazis are in the minority of users.”

Needless to say, that person supports Antifa, and apparently thinks wearing the flag or being Trump is a sign of Nazi affiliation. They also blocked me shortly afterward.

[sapphire-theseainequator]

I hope the OP of that post realize how native americans and hindus are forced to have their swastika being labeled as fascist symbol that should be erased because the people who colonialized them win a war. (Fun fact : the allies after “winning” the world war 2 send a military aggression to colonies they lost to the axis so any independence movement could be halted)

I hope the OP of the post realize how asians people are fucking attacked randomly because of “swastika”. “Oh, but they should realize that it’s a bad image now-” I dunno, most asians are invaded by the axis power Japan, why should they remove their own symbols because their own enemy ruins it?

[siryouarebeingmocked]

Folks like that have absolutely no problem throwing minorities under the bus for the Greater Good, whenever they think they can get away with it.

Which is, ironically, something Nazis loved to do.

[maybeplayingsmash]

Bors made a comic about it. Of course, being Bors, it was a pile of idiotic horseshit. So here’s the revised edition.