I am not a history major, but I got a 5 on AP US History… and have degrees in Econ and Poli Sci.
Basically, the last 10 years for me has been everyone I know thinking I am literally insane.
And then roughly 90% of what I was saying would happen, has now happened, within +/- 2 years of when I said it probably would.
None of them have bothered to apologize for being wrong, emphatically, derisivesly wrong, about basicsally everything, so, fuck em, and fuck this country honestly.
A friend would not mock someone for being mostly correct about things most of the time.
This is the behavior of either an insecure person, an idiot, a narcissist, or some combo of all three.
They also have low EQ and low self awareness and low empathy if they cannot figure out 1) how wrong they were and 2) how much they emotionally hurt you by being pigheadedly wrong.
So maybe throw a bit of sociopathy in there too.
Again, fuck em, they are bad people if it never occurs to them to apologize to you.
Way after the fact but sober question, are there people in your life that you know have realized you were right and you can tell but they don’t actually say it? I have one or three of them
Most of the people who used to be in my life probably think I am dead, as I ghosted everyone.
Without going in to a lot of detail, I got very tired of being a doormat in many other ways, absued in many other ways, some actually criminal, some resulting in serious physical injuries to myself, and I disappeared myself.
Frankly, with few exceptions, if one of these people managed to contact me somehow, I would literally just demand they pay me to speak to me, and then after they pay me, I would change my phone number and/or move again, wipe out and redo my (ephemeral) online presence/accounts, etc.
I have had friends start to freak out this term. I told them that most of this same stuff happened last term, you just didn’t hear about it (or listen to what I was saying) for some reason. Granted, he’s become much, much worse since our conversations in February because of SCOTUS backing him, but he had concentration camps last time as well.
I mean, Trump did Jan 6th, said he wanted to be a dictator, Project 2025 outlined everything that was going to be, and is currently being done.
It was not any kind of difficult to figure this out lately, unless one just prides themself on being ignorant or has some kind of unexamined onion layers of normalcy bias at the same they are angry and worried about how not normal things are.
Oh well, cognitive dissonance is a bitch I guess, time for the Great Filter to attempt to cull that out of the gene pool.
They weren’t voting for him, but they have kids and both work full time jobs. They just didn’t know how bad it was. The media hides most of this stuff from the front page as well. You have to figure it out for yourself.
Two books you might want to check out are The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols and “The Tyranny of Merit” by Michael Sandel. Here is a link to his TED profile and talks. Both talk about why this is happening and how we got here. While somewhat depressing, I found both books very validating(? can’t put a word to it) of all the frustration with family/friends these last years. Education has been gutted and imho real history is no longer taught. Add the internet and social media to the culture and suddenly everyone is an expert. In less than a year, he has destroyed the integrity, reputation and effectiveness of every federal agency made to keep us safe and let us sleep at night. The UN has been effectively neutralized by our vote on the security council. It’s maddening beyond words and I’m scared shitless of what’s to come.
I will try and check those out, thanks for the reading list =D
But uh… yeah.
I had a terrifying ‘validation’ moment when I realized that +/- 1 year of when I graduated Uni…
That was the peak of average US literacy and math abilities.
I have always gotten a lot of shit for describing myself as usually the most intelligent person I know personally, in the real, in most social situations I am in…
And well now the chances of me personally running into someone on my level who is younger than me are approaching zero.
Most people I meet, even doctors, other kinds of professionals… they do not believe me when I tell them I have two degrees and used to work for MSFT, a Fortune 500 logistics company, that I independently taught myself how to code in multiple programming languages and SQL, unrelated to my degrees, that I have enough knowledge to build a video game from “scratch” (yay Godot!), because I have also been making video game mods for two decades…
They just think I am literally crazy and making it up, because I don’t look or talk like a corpo type.
I am not a history major, but I got a 5 on AP US History… and have degrees in Econ and Poli Sci.
Basically, the last 10 years for me has been everyone I know thinking I am literally insane.
And then roughly 90% of what I was saying would happen, has now happened, within +/- 2 years of when I said it probably would.
None of them have bothered to apologize for being wrong, emphatically, derisivesly wrong, about basicsally everything, so, fuck em, and fuck this country honestly.
I feel for you, none of us are getting apologies of any kind, nor are we likely to get any accolades for being right. Shit sucks
Fuck em, they are bad people.
A friend would not mock someone for being mostly correct about things most of the time.
This is the behavior of either an insecure person, an idiot, a narcissist, or some combo of all three.
They also have low EQ and low self awareness and low empathy if they cannot figure out 1) how wrong they were and 2) how much they emotionally hurt you by being pigheadedly wrong.
So maybe throw a bit of sociopathy in there too.
Again, fuck em, they are bad people if it never occurs to them to apologize to you.
Way after the fact but sober question, are there people in your life that you know have realized you were right and you can tell but they don’t actually say it? I have one or three of them
Nope. Not myself no.
Most of the people who used to be in my life probably think I am dead, as I ghosted everyone.
Without going in to a lot of detail, I got very tired of being a doormat in many other ways, absued in many other ways, some actually criminal, some resulting in serious physical injuries to myself, and I disappeared myself.
Frankly, with few exceptions, if one of these people managed to contact me somehow, I would literally just demand they pay me to speak to me, and then after they pay me, I would change my phone number and/or move again, wipe out and redo my (ephemeral) online presence/accounts, etc.
I have had friends start to freak out this term. I told them that most of this same stuff happened last term, you just didn’t hear about it (or listen to what I was saying) for some reason. Granted, he’s become much, much worse since our conversations in February because of SCOTUS backing him, but he had concentration camps last time as well.
I mean, Trump did Jan 6th, said he wanted to be a dictator, Project 2025 outlined everything that was going to be, and is currently being done.
It was not any kind of difficult to figure this out lately, unless one just prides themself on being ignorant or has some kind of unexamined onion layers of normalcy bias at the same they are angry and worried about how not normal things are.
Oh well, cognitive dissonance is a bitch I guess, time for the Great Filter to attempt to cull that out of the gene pool.
They weren’t voting for him, but they have kids and both work full time jobs. They just didn’t know how bad it was. The media hides most of this stuff from the front page as well. You have to figure it out for yourself.
Two books you might want to check out are The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols and “The Tyranny of Merit” by Michael Sandel. Here is a link to his TED profile and talks. Both talk about why this is happening and how we got here. While somewhat depressing, I found both books very validating(? can’t put a word to it) of all the frustration with family/friends these last years. Education has been gutted and imho real history is no longer taught. Add the internet and social media to the culture and suddenly everyone is an expert. In less than a year, he has destroyed the integrity, reputation and effectiveness of every federal agency made to keep us safe and let us sleep at night. The UN has been effectively neutralized by our vote on the security council. It’s maddening beyond words and I’m scared shitless of what’s to come.
I will try and check those out, thanks for the reading list =D
But uh… yeah.
I had a terrifying ‘validation’ moment when I realized that +/- 1 year of when I graduated Uni…
That was the peak of average US literacy and math abilities.
I have always gotten a lot of shit for describing myself as usually the most intelligent person I know personally, in the real, in most social situations I am in…
And well now the chances of me personally running into someone on my level who is younger than me are approaching zero.
Most people I meet, even doctors, other kinds of professionals… they do not believe me when I tell them I have two degrees and used to work for MSFT, a Fortune 500 logistics company, that I independently taught myself how to code in multiple programming languages and SQL, unrelated to my degrees, that I have enough knowledge to build a video game from “scratch” (yay Godot!), because I have also been making video game mods for two decades…
They just think I am literally crazy and making it up, because I don’t look or talk like a corpo type.
Yep, I just love it here.