The Untied States is literally becoming like nazi Germany and I don’t know if people understand that I’m not exaggerating. I legitimately can’t tell if people realize that America is now a fascist dictatorship, likely to soon go full on nazi Germany and make it explicitly illegal to be part of certain minority groups, at which point it may be too late for people to leave. I don’t know if people around me understand that that’s not an exaggeration.

People just keep on going to Disneyland as if it’s perfectly safe. It’s like watching people go to a store that’s literally on fire and nobody is even trying to put it out. It’s like people think if the fire department isn’t reacting then it isn’t happening

and my grandmother thinks it’s funny to tell me canada is going to be the 51st state. Yes, so hilarious the fire might soon consume our house too

  • BussyGyatt@feddit.orgEnglish
    71·
    2 hours ago

    Holy fuck, I really need to read people’s comment history before upvoting their mod requests, because turns out you’re an insane misogynistic asshole I’ve voted into modding a dating community. Good thing the community is dead and you’re extremely ostentatious about your abhorrent beliefs and the effect they have on women. Let this be a lesson to me.

    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      1 hour ago

      i’m also a capitalist. clearly pure evil incarnate.

      can’t possible be i am just… different than you. and don’t take that personally.

      but please cherry pick my comment history and turn it into a novel about how evil i am if that makes you feel good? personally i find that a very weird thing to do. but i don’t use the internet to moralize and become totally hostile to anyone who isn’t in total agreement with me. but i understand that concept is ‘boomer’ these days, esp on reddit.

      the notion that some of us don’t have an agenda to push on other people… doesn’t really exist to you I would guess. because any neutrality or lack of alignment with your beliefs is… wrong and bad.

      i have this crazy concept that other people are allowed to disagree with me and that’s OK. I’m also not an incessant doomer like most of lemmy/piefed is rapidly becoming.

      • BussyGyatt@feddit.orgEnglish
        2·
        57 minutes ago

        Since you invited me to do so, here are some choice selections from your comment history:

        virtue signalling has been around since forever. Pascal talked about it in the 16th century dude. the bible talks about it.

        the phrase is not disingenuous. it’s about those for whom virtual is merely a signal, not an act. for those who preach, but don’t practice. for those whom virtue would have no meaning other than social recognition. it’s about ‘scoring good person points’. it’s the moral/political equivalent of buying a rigged-out Jeep and going on about how into off-roading you are when you use it as a commuter car. You are desperately trying to signal to others something that isn’t true about yourself.

        Tell me more about how you don’t use the internet to moralize. Even your framing of “insane misogynistic asshole” as “evil” betrays your moralization and the reason for it. I don’t think you’re evil, I think you’re a jerk who lacks even self-empathy, needs therapy and has no business moderating a dating community.

        ‘fellas, would you rather open up emotionally to a woman or a tree?’

        we’d all choose the tree. because even if the tree can’t acknowledge or listen, it won’t attack us for having emotions.

        Do I need to explain to my audience how this is misogynistic?

        and yes, dating is full of hypocrisy. the people who tell you that money and jobs don’t matter, are always the one who judge everyone else for their job and money. ugly people only want to date hot people, poor people only want to date rich people, etc etc.

        Speak for yourself, buddy. Ditto the previous quote.

        99.9% of people are self absorbed. very few care about anything other themselves and their immediate emotional gratification.

        I don’t think I’ve ever come across a commenter who had such a propensity for bitching about other people, and in such blanket generalizations lacking all self-awareness or any sense of irony.

        you realize talking like you do about this topic to any normal person will make them hate you instantly?

        the ratio tho

        I could go on, but this is easy and boring. Having done that tedious exercise, I find reason to pity you. You habitually project your own inadequacies and shortcomings onto others. You pretend you’re just so above it all, while the amount you actually care is betrayed by the amount you write and your persistence in the face of extreme social backlash. I think you hate yourself most of all and shit on everyone else as a way of making your opinion of yourself improve by the comparison. Hence the projection.

        • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          52 minutes ago

          dude, you just basically took a bunch of comments, and then interpreted them to mean what they don’t mean.

          but right, i’m the one whose insane. you clearly know way more about me than I know about myself. you clearly know what I meant and your projections of my intent are clearly some deep truth that i’m missing about myself right?

          does it ever occur to you that maybe… you’re wrong? just flat out wrong.

          but hey, if you think there are monsters in the closet, and i show you there is nothing in the closet, and you still insist there are totally monsters there… you do you. you are clearly totally blinded by your pre-existing beliefs and interpreting everything i say through that lens as to distort it to fuel your need to demonize other people… to what end i can’t really fathom. that rush of anger i guess?

          • BussyGyatt@feddit.orgEnglish
            1·
            36 seconds ago

            I invite anyone who thinks I took the comments to mean something they didn’t to investigate the context for themselves. Watch out for edit symbols.

            It’s not a pre-existing belief. I came to the belief just now and supported my belief with evidence from your comment history at which point I exclaimed, “holy fuck, I really need to read people’s comment history before voting them into community moderation.” Literally.

            Again, I don’t say you’re a monster, but you’ve characterized yourself that way by proxy of my statements twice now. Get in therapy.