Yes, we elected progressive presidents in the early 20th century. A century ago.

Then we decided in the 70s to stop being progressive.

This is it.

Every miserable person I know endlessly complaints how they don’t have control over things. Even when they do. They just convince themselves that have no other choices and their misery becomes their identity.

Yes, the hardest part of my life was 14-20 or so. only halfway through college did things start to improve.

And the biggest component was the people around me being awful. Currently I’ve having another dip in my life… and it’s all due to the people around me again. I feel like I’m going backwards to high school in terms of people surrounded by provincial small-minded and nasty people. I miss being around open-minded folks.

I am not. My life is progressively happier since my early 20s and really starting getting better at 35+ when I started focusing on myself and excluding more friends/partners who were dragging me down.

But everyone around me is getting more miserable, old or young. And I hate it and I hate them for it.

Increasingly I just detest socialization, because all it is is me listening to other people complain, and them telling I’m a jerk for being happy when the aren’t. All weekend I had to listen to people whine about their bodies, whine about their kids/spouses, and then brag about how rich they are and then lecture me how ignorant and stupid I am for not being as rich as they are.

Food culture sucks. Gourmets, foodies, Michelin star chasers etc, all suck.

All my favorite places were low-key mom and pop indie operations where the focus was on the food. Not the decor, the presentation, or the pretentiousness.

I also will never understand the total obsession people have with super expensive dinners. I hate them and they are a huge waste of money and the food is usually mediocre. Like expensive wine, it has nothing to do with the product’s quality or taste, and everything to do with just bragging about how rich you are by blowing boat loads of cash on an hour or two of pure vanity.

Lying will get you want you want most of the time.

7-9

if you get less than 6 hours of sleep on a regular basis you are doing damage to your body.

In my car, yes.

the false drama is the point.

probably. .ml is explicitly for Marxists. it’s right in their sidebar.

their userbase tends to be pro-violence, pro-authoritarian, and anti-american, among other things.

No, it’s that you’re a thug who thinks they are a hero.

And like all thugs, you hide behind theoretical bullshit to justify your horrible actions and beliefs as for the ‘greater good’.

And if you found yourself on the receiving end of the violence you propose, I don’t think you’d be so eager about it.

Yeah, that’s why I walked away from every car dealer who was a weirdo manipulative twat, and I bought my car from the sales person who was honest and didn’t try to sell me upgrades and sold me the car for the quoted price. They exist.

I walked out of 6 different dealerships before I found an honest salesperson. And they got my business.

Just like I don’t buy shit from pawn shops or other shady businesses.

then you shouldn’t believe in violence. violence is power.

you violate your own beliefs.

Cool. I don’t. I think manipulative tactics are fucked up and illegal.

Anytime a sales person tries to manipulate me I walk away. Usually they become abusive… probably because manipulating people is a form of abusive coercion.

But hey, I also don’t associate with anyone in marketing or sales… for this very reason. They tend to think manipulation is the entire point of human relationships.

they are scams.

they prey on ignorant and desperate folks.

just like any scamming thing.

Yeah, I do notice a lot of people with shitty attitudes and toxic personalities call me judgemental.

And I also notice people who don’t have those personalities, like me.

I wonder why that is? I can’t think of any reason… many it’s like when the tankies on lemmy tell me i’m an ignorant and brainwashed by capitalism if i don’t think China is a utopian state?

You’re talking about yourself. You are one of those people.

You are the problem.

You claim you’re life was normal, but what you don’t understand is that you had it better than like 90% of your fellow citizens.

Don’t worry, you’re in good company. I regularly meet people who live in million dollar homes who think they are impoverished and struggling and life is unfair and cruel and they are ‘barely getting by’. Nobody will ever admit they are rich, because ‘someone else has more than me therefore i can’t be.’

I have 500K in assets. I am rich by any definition, but sadly people tell me I am poor and struggling because they seem to think ‘rich’ is 50 million in assets, minimum, and that 5 million in assets is ‘middle class’. Again, because they are clueless people who live in bubbles and don’t interact with people outside of their wealth bracket in any meaningful way and endlessly compare themselves to their peers rather than a broader spectrum of their fellow citizens.

yeah and you see no issue with murdering people to get it done.

Identity politics derails everything into a toxic soup.

It sucks that the founders of it thought it would bring ‘justice’ to the world or something, and it just made everything so much worse.

One of the reasons I left my PhD in 2010 was because I could see the tide of ID pol alreadying ruining academia… I never thought it would become mainstream though and that everyone would start thinking that way. Thanks tumblr!