Why.

Everyone secretly likes them

Dadaism is near literally that save for the hot part lol

Lisa Frank 😂🌈

That’s actually crazy. As in… the last time people were physically restricted from leaving their homes?

How is that even possible.

That fact that this comment doesn’t have a single downvote is a terrifying reality check all on its own.

None of this is hyperbole anymore.

And his entire campaign was based on convincing willful idiots that his presidency would do the exact opposite.

Now the US is dead last in education, science, GDP and trade. Lmao

Good luck blaming all that on Biden and Obama as if it’s possible to pretend that any facet of society wasn’t objectively better. There is no war in Ba Sing Se!

This but unironically. It’s how authoritarians retain power.

Oh shit lol

they don’t even seem to read what you write so much as just make up stuff in their heads that what you said is some dog-whistle about ‘who you really are’.

Lol I was just saying this the other day about the last time I bothered checking replies. A simple question I asked started a civil war in the comments, and I couldn’t believe how strongly people were personally attacking each other based on the random comment of some stranger that they decided to imbue with all these extra meanings.

It’s just a bunch of angry people looking for outlets for their emotions, the actual meanings behind the words don’t matter.

I run on another reddit alternative that was apparently an offshoot refuge after Squabbler shit hit the fan (so extremely niche yet somewhat active community) with a completely different demographic of users to Lemmy (mostly middle-aged centrists/liberals that couldn’t tell apart a Linux distro from a macbook), and I can tell you.

It’s universal.

I posted something the other day about how nice it was to wake up and have your feet hit a warm rug that’s been baked in a sunbeam first thing in the morning, and shityounot the replies I immediately got ranged from “Why even bother getting out of bed” and a list of things that are “far superior” to a warm rug. Just blatant whataboutism all the way down, and almost made me consider that if I had posted the opposite, about how much I dislike that sort of thing, if people would have then flipflopped and disagreed lol

Then I came to Lemmy for a break, and the first post I saw was a photo of someone’s pet bunny next to some food they’d ordered, and every single comment was about how OP was a bad person and should be ashamed of themselves for using a delivery app. It was fucking wild.

I think it’s genuinely just the state of the world right now. Everyone’s enraged as hell and seemingly have zero real world outlets for it. So it all just gets funneled into stranger interactions online.

I just try not to read replies and generally move on with my day rather than absorb all that insanity. If people really need an outlet or whatever that badly they can go scream at ChatGPT for an hour lmao

If you haven’t been banned there you have not truly lived

Damn, you guys really make me feel like I’m missing out lol

Literally me

Lmfao yeah, really muddies the sentiment.

I was really torn on whether to up or downvote this because it’s so hypocritical, but I guess I’d rather people actually discuss this and hear their thoughts.

Found the boomer lol

By the way, you’ve won a million dollars!

Exactly, it’s like people are so caught up in the methodology of this that every conversation I see about it seems to wooosh the actual point of protesting lol

As long as there isn’t massive civil unrest in the country

The thing to understand about liberal Americans is that they’re currently doing everything in their power to prevent this, as they have been brainwashed for decades by conservative rhetoric that “only thugs riot” and couldn’t seem to parse this for the racist dogwhistle it actually was.

They’re making the exact same mistake the DNC made with not holding their ground during the government shutdown, because they so desperately didn’t want to look like “the bad guy”. When it comes to dictators, you’re gonna have to riot at some point. A lesson that neo-American society will learn eventually the hard way.

More like really good at gaslighting 😂

Jesus christ, that’s like a perfect opening line for a PSX horror game bwahaha

Not to a kid though. I know several people who did this as tots and I was one of them. It’s probably some biological incentive for developing brains where certain sources of fat seem mighty appealing whereas to an adult it’ll probably just make you feel sluggish and put your digestive system/skin PH out of whack lol