chosensilence

@chosensilence@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  wow, i did not know that. thank you for elaborating. i looked into it further and found SCOTUS asshole Roberts: "The Constitution supplies no objective measure for assessing whether a districting map treats a political party fairly.” lol cool, cool…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Gerrymandering is a crime. We just don’t consider what’s going on to be legally gerrymandering for some bullshit fuck ass reason. There’s only been a few cases of gerrymandering being caught in a legal sense. It is largely ignored.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you using Lemmy / others to create noise in your life and to replace talking to people irl?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How many fascists have you killed?

  lone wolves are useless and a detriment to any serious cause. i haven’t killed any fascists because i cannot, i will be jailed.

  A Ted Kaczynski would say a person who really cares about these issues would already be sending mail bombs.

  see above. i disagree with his assessment that one-offs are useful. he is proof it accomplishes nothing.

  but could you not bring your partner along?

  he is more of a homebody than me, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you using Lemmy / others to create noise in your life and to replace talking to people irl?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just because you have the luxury of time and space to be involved in politics and spend a lot of emotional energy in that area doesn’t mean that everyone else has that luxury.

  i’d argue it isn’t a luxury it is a responsibility and i do not have the time or space, actually. i do it at the sacrifice of my mental health as i’ve made clear.

  frankly, i’m not interested in this conversation because you are not the first, second, third, or 100th person to say the same thing and my response is never agreed with and it just becomes a back and forth until we either agree to disagree or tell each other off.

  also no, i have not stopped short of actively killing fascists. murder it would not be, it is self-defense. ultimately, i am morally superior and am confident in that fact. it’s not something i expect people to understand. i am lucky that my partner feels the same as me and we can share in this worldview. what makes me more correct than others? the fact that i am and they aren’t. i have the outlook that results in the least amount of human death and suffering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you using Lemmy / others to create noise in your life and to replace talking to people irl?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i know it seems that way but it’s only because you are not accurately viewing the world, in my opinion. it isn’t that there are dicks, it’s that there are uneducated, ignorant, self-serving people who are just trying to get by. they don’t usually act maliciously but their unintentional ignorance and poor judgment causes worldwide death and suffering.

  i cannot stand the average person any longer. truly, i have struggled my entire life. but the PTA mom who votes Dem without giving much thought? she is just as responsible for fascism as her Republican counterparts. it doesn’t matter if she isn’t doing it intentionally or maliciously—the end result is the same. if you are effectively contributing to the destruction of humanity i want nothing to do with you on a personal level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to start calling it Simulater Intelligence (SI): here's why:⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i meant what i said, unfortunately lol. it’s in the “hypothetical” stages but isn’t science fiction either. every major AI company has stated it is their goal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to start calling it Simulater Intelligence (SI): here's why:⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AI is here to stay as they’ve already moved on to calling what is actual AI AGI (artificial general intelligence). so look out for AGI in the future because it’s not too far off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you using Lemmy / others to create noise in your life and to replace talking to people irl?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  just because someone is “worse” than you doesn’t mean they don’t have value

  very true. however, it does make me less willing to be friends with them. we can be mutually kind and supportive, but i don’t want to know them on a personal level. also, it’s all a spectrum anyway. there are greys between each side, so it’s not like i’m looking for carbon copies of myself. but the radius of my tolerance is low, lol.

  i try to lean forward, i do. i am, to my own chagrin, romantically optimistic about humanity. but it isn’t unrealistic. i ground myself by keeping up on sociological and political trends. shit is bad. shit is worse than bad. shit is worse than worse than bad. it’s all impacted how i see others and their role in the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you using Lemmy / others to create noise in your life and to replace talking to people irl?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is possible to improve and for things to get better.

  oh sure, i don’t deny that. i have experienced a lot of positive growth over the years and hope it continues. but i am not financially stable enough to pursue psychiatric and psychological treatment, so… just kinda dealing with it the ways i can.

  Does that mean you can’t value someone with different beliefs than you?

  not necessarily. our differences cannot be significant. it does mean i am far more intolerable than most, though, but on a personal level… not as an outward participant in society. i am pleasant to everyone i meet, but developing a friendship comes with baggage for me. i am less willing to talk to people with the goal of friendship in mind because i largely encounter folks who, frankly, i am better than. and that’s pretty sad because i suck.

  What group, if you saw it was starting up in your area, would motivate you to go out and meet people?

  it is unlikely i would go because i am unable to attend events solo due to anxiety. if i don’t know anyone i have no security blanket. i am not in the right headspace to tackle this issue at the moment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you using Lemmy / others to create noise in your life and to replace talking to people irl?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have tons of friends with mental health struggles of all kinds.

  yes, but we are all unique, unfortunately. none of them are me with my specific problems. a big part of my struggle is socializing in general.

  But you say that you don’t value the same people I do, but what makes you think so?

  because i know the reception of the beliefs i hold and they are universally condemned

  What makes you think finding a group you would vibe with is particularly hard?

  there aren’t any groups that interest me in my area. i have looked on all the usual places.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you using Lemmy / others to create noise in your life and to replace talking to people irl?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  just go to things

  look lol, i know. it seems that simple. i have significant mental health issues that complicate things. i wish i could just go. i also don’t value the same people you may do, so finding people i truly get along with is not easy for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you using Lemmy / others to create noise in your life and to replace talking to people irl?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  oh, uh, sure? that’s an odd thing to reply with when i never implied only having friends on Lemmy or online was healthy… so… alright. i do have friends in person, if we’re going to talk about it. i just still find it rather difficult to make new connections.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you using Lemmy / others to create noise in your life and to replace talking to people irl?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  …huh? i don’t know what that means.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you using Lemmy / others to create noise in your life and to replace talking to people irl?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah but making friends IRL as a mid 30s millennial feels impossible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah you need to drop this bullshit American mentality, sorry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i don’t understand why you’re bothered by this, honestly. sounds like you have psychological hangups regarding being given stuff for free and should absolutely not project that shame on your son.