TubularTittyFrog
@TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
- Comment on We have heard time and time again Hollywood and the Media are liberal assests. I disagree with that statement. But has it always been so called liberal? When did it start? 7 hours ago:
Artistic communities always lean left. Hollywood and Media are artistic pursuits.
- Comment on Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse? 7 hours ago:
Shitty people feel big by making others feel small.
Lots of people are shitty. Here and on reddit.
- Comment on Would you ever call your son a disappointment? 1 day ago:
No, you are misrepresenting what I’m saying to make it look extreme and stupid. It’s called straw-manning.
- Comment on Would you ever call your son a disappointment? 1 day ago:
I’m not saying any of that. But please keep telling me more about myself. Clearly you know everything.
- Comment on Would you ever call your son a disappointment? 1 day ago:
we’re talking about people dude. we are not talking about scientific principles.
- Comment on Would you ever call your son a disappointment? 1 day ago:
Those are the same things. You are what you do.
- Comment on Would you ever call your son a disappointment? 1 day ago:
Yeah, no.
This ‘do no harm’ shit is nothing more than toxic positivity.
Pain is part of life. Learn to deal with it and stop trying to avoid it pathologically. You should feel bad for disappointing people.
- Comment on Would you ever call your son a disappointment? 1 day ago:
Yes, assuming they have disappointed me.
It’s normal to express your emotions.
- Comment on Why are public school teachers so underpaid in the US? 2 days ago:
No, in many Euro countires it’s a good-paying middle-class job with reasonable hours.
- Comment on Why are public school teachers so underpaid in the US? 2 days ago:
sounds like you went to school in a rich town. yeah, in rich towns they tend to be much better.
- Comment on Why are public school teachers so underpaid in the US? 2 days ago:
all the dumbest people i know became teachers because they wanted a minimal effort job.
not every teach is crappy, but you are ignorant if you think every teacher is some hardworking dedicated person.
- Comment on Why are public school teachers so underpaid in the US? 2 days ago:
physicians in primary care are the lowest paid doctors.
- Comment on Why are public school teachers so underpaid in the US? 2 days ago:
Teaching isn’t considered a professional job in the USA. It’s considered to be part of the service industry, thus the low pay.
- Comment on From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT 5 days ago:
They can be used to launder money though.
That’s why art is so inflated. It’s used as a means to launder
- Comment on X and TikTok algorithms favour the far right at the expense of moderate parties 1 week ago:
What’s baffling is I meet people my own age, who make like 200K a year. who also think this exact same way. They think their life right now is impoverished and they deserve to be a billionaire one day. Half my first dates the past couple of years tell me how ‘difficult’ their life is because they can’t afford first class plane tickets.
- Comment on X and TikTok algorithms favour the far right at the expense of moderate parties 1 week ago:
because everyone thinks they are middle-class, and everyone aspires to be rich.
very few people think improving the conditions of the working class is a worthwhile goal… the goal is to get out of the working class and feel superior to them.
- Comment on X and TikTok algorithms favour the far right at the expense of moderate parties 1 week ago:
Good policy is boring. Good government is boring. A company with moderate growth targets is boring.
Well-informed, articulate, and smart opinions… are boring.
- Comment on X and TikTok algorithms favour the far right at the expense of moderate parties 1 week ago:
They aren’t designed to do that.
They are designed to give people what they want. People want division and hate. It fuels their attention.
In the 1980s the people who had the longest listening times to Howard Stern were the people who claimed to hate him. The outraged fueled their attention such that they could not turn away because they wanted to see if he got more outrageous and offensive.
People are like kids in an candy store when it comes to negative content. They cannot get enough.
Before algos things were random and they had to try really hard to go find that stuff. The algos spoonfed it to them and they lapped it up eagerly. Back when IG was just my friends, I saw one angry rant every few weeks, today it’s 20 angry rants and 20 ads, and my friends content about their kid or cat being cute is buried by 50 other posts which I can’t get rid of.
- Comment on 40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research 1 week ago:
sort of, but you are pointing out one of the biggest problems with the whole thing. Also in my experience, it’s that people’s expectations of relationships are so far out of whack with the reality there really is no point in trying anymore.
And I’ve noticed this a lot. Most of my dates now expect me to make a 500K salary or something and think anyone who doesn’t is ‘not worth their time’. It’s an absurd expectation born of defensiveness and seeking fantasy escapism, rather than real connection. And they fill up their lives with social media and consumerism and broadcast that they are so happy on the outside, but they are miserable on the inside because they have no real connections and their external ‘standards’ they are a requirement for ‘happiness’ just prevent them from actually making real relationships. And they justify a lot of that by claiming that others expect perfection of them so they should expect perfection of others. It’s so… fucked up and self-destructive. But if you bring it up… if you challenge the idea that you can be happy without a 500K income… they go ballistic on you for ‘having no ambition’ ‘being a loser’ etc.
My other favorite thing to do on dates sometimes, is to say something like "I think people are the most beautiful when they wake up and their hair is messy and groggy and they stink a little bit’. It really fucks with these types of people, because for them being a human being who is messy and imperfect is like the thing they are desperately trying to avoid being.
- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 1 week ago:
Yes. I studied in in college. There is more to an argument that solid reasoning.
The Nazi regime had solid solid reasoning too dude. Their conclusions were also ‘unpleasant’.
- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 1 week ago:
They think I’m an irresponsible loser because I don’t make 500K a year.
- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 1 week ago:
You don’t matter to me because I don’t know you. You are not the source of any of my problems. You aren’t that important.
I don’t know where you live. Come to Boston. People will bend over backwards to give you a job because every company is desperate to prove how diverse their workforce is. Our governor is a lesbian and pro-queer.
Sucks that other states hate trans people, but I don’t live there and I have no say in their government policies.
- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 1 week ago:
it’s important in my specific city. which is full of very wealthy very liberal people.
- Comment on 40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research 1 week ago:
nobody is forcing women to date. what the hell are you talking about?
- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 1 week ago:
it is super important to rich liberal people, but not the rest of the country. where i live i can’t walk down the street without gender war nonsense being all over the lamp posts, but that isn’t the case in most other places.
- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 1 week ago:
people don’t understand that other cultures exist
- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 1 week ago:
for lay people who aren’t educated in gender studies, there is no such difference.
- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 1 week ago:
Ever since I turned 35 every women I meet wants this. I have never met a woman who wants an equal partner in dating since I was in my early 30s, over 10 years ago.
- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 1 week ago:
Andrea Dworkin
- Comment on Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college? 1 week ago:
ok, good luck living in your magical land food magically appears out of the ether!