It's called being a decent human being. Or maybe an intelligent human being? Expand your vocabulary beyond shitty offensive slurs maybe? If you're trying to call someone out and need to use words like retard, or sissy, I'd say it does, "say a lot about you". Nobody is sitting here clutching their pearls over it. Just language that is completely unnecessary to use.
Two words: Emotional intelligence.
It's called jacking off to your own moral superiority. Everyone knows that you shouldn't say those words on national television. Somebody is bound to say "Well, thus is PC run amuck" which is wrong, but STILL, after like 6 years of this horseshit, people still need to act like they're sat at the right hand of God because they take grave offense to things and others don't. It's ridiculous to me, as someone who remembers what a conversation was like before 2016.
How do we quantify these things online? When people are frantically typing their I am outraged and I am crying speeches, waiting to get their likes and admiration? I can judge somebody based on how they interact with these sort of situations in real life, but I haven't read someone just be truthful (not in a right wing, tell it like it is grift way) online in years. You get it sometimes in real life, in private conversations with friends, but online? Gimmick accounts regurgitate whatever gets up votes.
Or maybe some people are actually good people in real life.
And the moon is made of cheese, and the streets are paved with gold.
So were your pre-2016 conversations just filled with slurs, calling people retards and fags and sissies and what not and now you're bummed you can no longer do that? Sounds...fun? Nobody is taking "grave offense". But do you. You wanna use slurs and insult minorities, go for it!It's called jacking off to your own moral superiority. Everyone knows that you shouldn't say those words on national television. Somebody is bound to say "Well, thus is PC run amuck" which is wrong, but STILL, after like 6 years of this horseshit, people still need to act like they're sat at the right hand of God because they take grave offense to things and others don't. It's ridiculous to me, as someone who remembers what a conversation was like before 2016.
"It's called being a decent human being."
I hope you've got a towel like Lou at least.
No? Why do I need to represent some outdated right wing caricature for you to even engage with the point I'm making about fake moral outrage? Did every conversation you have revolve around bad words and making fun of others pre 2016? Mine didn't, they never did. But I never policed anybody for what they said about anything in day to day conversations as if I was writing press release statements for Walmart. It was more honest. I swear people nowadays have an invisible gun to their heads that will go off if they say something that you can't say on Morning Joe.
Bullshit. I've met several people from this very board that are just great people. @dviss1 , @Chris Craig , @PtldPlatypus, @SlyPokerDog are good people. Is anyone a perfect human being? Hell no. But I refuse to just give in to some mediocre nihilistic vision of humanity. As a species, we have been out of the damned stone-age for thousands of years. We can strive for some better standards. And I will never apologize for trying to be the best version of myself. If that bothers you, I suppose you can go inhale a fart somewhere. Peace.
I have no idea what this means, or why you tagged people that I have zero problem with, but I am starting to tear up, and I did give you a like, so it surely must be powerful.
They were examples of good people in real life, which you claimed as Bullshit. And I'm not surprised you don't have a problem with them, because they are good people. Like I implied.
How is it fake moral outrage? Again, I don't see anyone being "outraged" here. Just that there's things that people shouldn't say. And people stating that. I'm not fake in thinking if someone is sad that they can't call someone a retard, that I think that person is a piece of shit.
But...but I said that you will find good people in real life to have honest conversations with? Like...people here are invited to a members funeral, this isn't Twitter, like where the majority of these reaction seekers go to for their morality dopamine hit. I don't believe everyone here is going for that, but the dog pile on the user who said it was a part of feminist or whatever agenda looks like lightswitch brain political dog piling to me. I don't know how this lukewarm take made me the Adolf in the room.
I have a group of friends with their own flaws. I don't call them out when they say something off kilter, because real life isn't Reddit. I will not be given a gold badge. Nobody will be crying or clapping. They're mostly buddies I met doing construction work before I went to school. A strange mixture of Croatians and Newfoundlanders. You can imagine that they say some wild things and make some inappropriate comments, especially when the BTs start going around. Again, I'm not from a big city, or the upper classes, so I don't start makeshift struggle sessions when someone goes off script after 14 hours of non union drywalling.
I'm just having a gentle debate with you. There is no outrage. I'll add that this has actually been a decent back and forth without unnecessary name calling or the like. I just think, we as humans, can and should strive to be better. That is the crux of my beliefs.
I'm far from upper class, just have no place for bigots in my life. Life's too short to spend it with close minded people, for me.
You're telling me to eat farts or something, which is totally fine don't get me wrong lmao I don't want to be a hypocrite, but something happens in these conversations where one side starts foaming at the mouth and projecting whatever their political enemies are onto the other person, it's as if that's the only way they know how to engage with others. I'm cool with your view, I don't even really disagree with it, it's not like I'm saying Tim should be able to say it, just calling out how unnatural these reactions can sound sometimes online, again, like a corporation releasing a press statement.
I was trying to bring humor into the situation with the fart line. It wasn't very funny though. Can't win em all.
I don't really care, I never have. I love people who think outside the box. Will never forget the random black Israelite who stopped by my house as I was smoking a joint on the patio and asked if he could smoke there too, apparently he was attending a wedding. The conversation went from white people being created in a laboratory to casinos having no windows so you forget about time. You just don't get that level of variety with people who have post 2016 acceptable dialogue shock collars on. Keep talking to the same people for the rest of your life, I guess.
Being truly open minded (to me at least) means seeing people for their faults and engaging them on why they are that way instead of just shouting them down or shutting them out. Places like this can become an echo chamber for one way of thinking and it gets to be that anyone with a different viewpoint will get shouted down enough that they just quit saying anything.
is thinking hard for you? Is that what’s really pissing you off?
If you make money by people sending you payments you should be prepared for the day they decide to stop sending it.
I'm not buying it. @SlyPokerDog has explicitly admitted to being an asshole many times.
