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Tbf, some people can have fun and this point that might look like pretending you're as crazy for her as can be

If I were asked, depending on the context I'd either say I'm coco for coconuts or fuck the DNC. It's like a only we can talk shit thing because ideally we want them to improve (context: two-party system)

I shit on the opportunity? Dude, I don't think you understood my comment at all, especially since you got so defensive in your response.

Let's try and take a breath and relax. Let me know if something I said hurt/disrespected you and I'll address it since it wasn't my intention to offend anyone.

First, I visit Lemmy daily and comment all the time. Am I not a true Lemmy user because I don't post? I personally think that's a silly thing to say.

Second, I never even mentioned the posts here being the issue. You just assumed that, dude. My issue is entirely the lack of people. Sorry that wasn't clearer in my what I wrote

Finally, if I'm honest, I don't think this place is better than reddit. It may one day be but I don't think it is yet. I hope I'm allowed to have that opinion here.

Something else I think is that the demographic of the userbase is a lot more similar/less diverse than it ever was on reddit. Again, I'm not even saying that's a good or bad thing. They're just realities we should try and understand. It could be both. I just find the hate for reddit to be over the top and I think it clouds people's view of reality. You're welcome to disagree. We could even have a nice chat about it!

I'm of the belief that if we want this place to be better than reddit we need to truly try and welcome people we disagree with into the community so everyone feels like they're included even if they're not always posting or commenting or even visiting or whatever. ;)

I mean, maybe I should just ask, are people here mainly for a defederated social network - and what does that mean to you? I've kinda always been looking for a good healthy community - I hear the Internet used to be way better at that before - and I felt like reddit showed that their communities were fake and ripe for turning on themselves. This place seems identical in that way.

Sorry if I could've communicated that better in this message or the last one

You're probably right. I just worry uninformed angry people are ripe for being taken advantage of.

And for sure I totally don't mean absolutely everyone in either gen - that's never the case. I guess i just look at my older bro and he looks way beyond capacity (44 w/ a 1+2 yr olds) to expect him to do stuff like read and educate himself. Idk, maybe that's just not his thing regardless.

I absolutely salute parents out there, doing the whole thing though. I'm still just barely trying to take care of myself

Basically. I think of it as allow yourself to get that dopamine hit, instead of doing what I do which is probably like think you should've done it already or see how easy that was, why didn't you do it sooner. Fuck all that. Say good shit bro! Turned out sick

Then hopefully you can make it a habit/ritual and actually make it feel natural or even funish.

Not there yet at all myself

I recently learned about dysthymia - basically a form of long-term functioning depression. Idk why I'd never heard about it before, but it for sure resonates with my experience.

Apparently, we should be able to get ~50/50 external/internal validation. For example, most healthy people can apparently do chores or something and get an internal sense of accomplishment that supports the external validation that is having completed chores.

The problem is, for some folks (hi there) we can't really put up the internal validation part. Like, I'd be expecting the completed chores to make me happy, but that's just not how it works. I need to be active in validating myself and saying something like, "good job dude!"

That shit is hard - especially if it's like the total opposite of what you heard growing up.

Relevant video

I disagree, but only in theory. lol. There's that one dude that deprograms KKK members. It's always possible but you'll notice it gets harder the more involved in the cult you are, and of course others want to help you less and less

So I think it's possible, but we're just not capable of doing it so it's probably not worth relying on it as a real tangible means to accomplish our political goals. I'd liken it to having a schizophrenic uncle that no knows how to help and no one in the family believes in doctors or medicine.

There's probably a way to help trump cultists but it would take levels of compassion and understanding that simply don't exist in great capacity, especially in the US

I just read it as supporting third parties. I thought you were going to mention what happens if a third party were to get more votes but not a majority. I actually don't know. Would there still be a runoff between Dem and Rep or would the third party actually win it? I'd assume theres some rule that the third party has to win a majority or some bs

There's a link under the post linking to info on the Sri Lanka election.

All good! It's easy to miss

Their motto is literally whatever. It's unfortunate but I wonder how much they even try to properly inform themselves at this point.

Tbf, many have families and homes that require them to submit themselves fully to the brutal dick of capitalism and relinquish all else, unlike millennials and gen z. Because of that, I'm pretty sure if given the choice, gen x would absolutely prefer to fight to maintain the status quo as they're fully committed to it - that is to say, many likely believe "this is just the way things are" and things are only bad if you're lazy or you lose your government-issued bootstraps therefore fundamental change like we've never seen before isn't needed and is actually a radical position to hold.

It's a bit of a bummer since they have tons of experience and executive function skills later generations seem to lack/struggle with

Idk, I see liberals telling everyone to be calm and content and that the economy is great and getting better.

I totally get the reason and vibe they're going for, but they're basically saying don't be righteously furious and ignore reality, imo, while they capitulate on claims that crime and immigration are bigger problems. I guess, I just don't know that significant economic/social change has ever happened without pissed-off people fighting like their lives depend on it

Most people I know know about the drake beef and the Diddy scandal, but I couldn't even count like 5 people that I know personally that could name their senators or explain what the electoral college is.

I think most of us prefer to ignore our emotions, and I think anything related to politics beings up uncomfortable emotions for people so they just don't do it and stay away from the topic