There are people who won’t socialize at all unless it involves alcohol

You don’t.

Just live your life. If you don’t want to be atomized, don’t be.

because you’re not lonely. you’re just a jerk.

if by brutal you mean fun and not full of corporate bullshit, yeah.

And to compare themselves against their friends.

Every girl in my high school was all over this when it came out. They all wanted to know who was prettier and friends stopped talking over it.

A lot of the guy were too. One of my stoner friends would agonize about his score.

The 2000s were a wild time.

No, it’s normal.

What is immature is to dwell on it and prevent you from moving on with your life. Like, I’m in my 40s and I meet people who are still hung up on shit that happened to them in high school or college. It’s weird.

i’m from the US and I agree. Lemmy has really gone downhill the past few months and its FULL of ragebait posting of craptastic ‘news’ articles.

rage drives engagement.

it’s just how the internet works. angry people post and reply a lot more than non-angry people.

and angry posts tend to be shorter, easier to comprehend, and induce more angry responses.

thoughtful and non-rage takes don’t drive engagement from people. it mostly bores them.

people come to be entertained, more than anything else.

I mean… most of the american left… are like this. It’s most about feelings. They have no real coherent politican platform. They think sitting around feeling bad is the same as having a policy or a platform.

If you put forth any course of actionable discourse, they basically tell you you’re an asshole because you are making them feel bad. I used be ‘involved’ and I gave up because all anyone wanted to do was sit around and jerk themselves off about their feelings and suggesting any action beyond interent memes was considered ‘oppressive’.

Yep. The issue is nobody wants to hear this, because everyone wants to be part of the economically privledged class and thinks they can do no wrong.

part of the reason all this is happeneing is because working class has become so economically deprived and it’s considered shameful to be one of them, on either side of the politican spectrum. all of the politicians and their infrastructure is from the economic elite and their sole interest, no matter their party, is enhancing their own wealth at all costs as quickly as possible.

personally i’m hovering at the top end of the pie, and most of my peers basically think i’m a weirdo/asshole for not chasing corporate stocks to maximimize my gains, and for not trying to get a corpo job to maximize my income. these are the same folks who preach leftism, but only do so by living off investments that come from the labor of their working-class they totally despise.

they are 100% on board with exploitation as long as it means they get their vacations, their expensive cars, their education and housing that costs 6-7 figures. our university system is totally on board with it too, as long as the big fat research grants keep coming they could care who is thrown under the bus, and they don’t want filfthy working class poors on their campuses that require financail aid. they want the nice shiny children of the upper economic pie.

amen. the issue is people really are delusional enough to think they wouldn’t be the jackbooted thugs if they weren’t in power. They would.

Everyone is VERY eager for others to commit violence for them or against their enemies. But not so eager to commit violence themselves or be victims of it.

trump supporters don’t think it’s true that trump is a racist facist either.

that to lemmy users who send me violent hateful messages and replies for daring to have a mildly different political opinion than them.

lots and lots of users here are totally OK with violence against anyone they disagree with, and are 100% against it when it’s against the people they do agree with. Funny how that attitude works… it’s only ‘wrong’ if it’s against someone you don’t like.

it’s not pessimism, it’s understanding how people work.

The funny thing about leftist/progressive agenda is… everyone is for it, until it impacts them personally. Everyone wants more housing, more immigration, more education… until its in their town and their tax bill goes up. Then all the sudden they are VERY opposed to these things.

My own very blue city just had lots of tax rates go up. All the sudden our very popular progressive major is getting a lot less popular… and her progressive plans to expand and fund new things is now being cut back…

weird how that works, right? it’s almost as if people don’t want the things they say they want…

everyone’s idealism disappears when the bills come due and the cold hard facts of finite resources and infinite demand slap them in the face.

Sucks. Those people should probably get better jobs.

Nobody is coming to save anyone. We have to save ourselves.

I think Putin is in power and there is no opposition to him because he has systematically destroyed it.

And he won’t leave short of his own death or social collapse.

You do something. Stop being a coward and demand other people do things for you. All you are doing is jerking yourself off in your head.

What you don’t get is when you do those things, you invite violence and hatred into your life. You go start ''talks with them" and see how you much you enjoy it when people are calling for you to be beaten up or killed because they don’t like the color of your skin or what’s between your legs.

there are plenty of home computers for sale for under $500. i’m on a $700 laptop right now that’s 4 years old.

they just can’t run modern games. i can run 2d games just fine or old games.

the gaming crowd seems to forget that most computers don’t use integrated graphics and a $1000 PC is a luxury purchase.

at that pricepoint it’s just about showing off how much money you have.

typical rich way to backhand brag about how rich you are is to whine about how ‘expensive’ things are that are luxury items.