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

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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!

Yes, I notice when reddit implemented that version of blocking… things got much worse. And people just started blcoking anyone who remote disagreed with them… it was suppose to be for preventing people from harassing you, but that’s not how people used it.

pre-block reddit was a lot chiller place. it was much more interested and diverse and for me was a good learning place, but once people started echo chambering themselves in my communities, it got nastier and nastier and the qualify of content and good faith exchanges dropped and hostility skyrocketed.

Why?

toxicity is inevitable in real life such as much. toxic people are everywhere, and they drag people down with them.

i’ve had toxic family, friends, and co-workers. sometimes you have no choice but to live with it, sometimes you can ignore it, sometimes you can boot the person from your life if they cross certain boundaries. and sometimes the toxic person tries to get you removed.

the false tech bro assumption I’ve seen since forever, is the idea you can engineer out people’s negative behaviors and impulses… you can’t. they will find a way to exploit whatever system you set up. that’s what they do… that’s what makes them toxic. you cannot create a social media network that is free from toxic people, unless you make one with no people involved.

and sometimes you have no choice but to submit. and that’s OK

it’s also not your fault if a drunk driver or similar crashes into you and causes a traffic jam… it’s the other person’s fault.

way too many toxic folks on lemmy are apologizing for the drunk driver and blaming the victim constantly. especially when they identify with the drunk driver or start thinking ‘he had no choice!’

Your posts are really great. Just wanted to say it’s super cool to have someone thoughtful contributing and articulating a realistic approach.

You can’t.

Most people love it, even if you don’t. That toxicity was always there… just look at how incredibly popular day time toxic TV and reality TV was before the internet and social media…

That said, plenty of people who posted here are barking up the right tree. Be what you want to see, and block/don’t engage with shitty toxic people and their toxic ideas. Support other users by upvoting and interacting with them when you see good content, and if the mods remove those posts, then stop using that community.

Way too many mods give into the toxic BS on social media due to the pressure that toxic people create.