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Edit: Sorry I put that stupid title as a placeholder and then I forgot to replace it for something more relevant.

Disclaimer this is a full-on rant and I just want to complain

I see this on Facebook since I periodically gotta keep up with the animal videos my mom and dad like to put on my wall:

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It says "If the ones below get up, the game ends"

Well haha the ones below are just waiting for the ones on top to drop the next iPhone right? The last TV, the last console, etc etc, except they can't make ends meet because the greedy banks charge them interest on their maxed out credit cards!

Friend comments on Facebook "Nah the ones up there never did anything in their lives, they just make bank from people"

Really? Really MF? Do you know how Rockefeller started? Ford? Oprah? Whatsapp's founder? Starbucks founder? etc, etc, etc, etc? There's TONS of examples on Google. Y'all just have excuses for why your life isn't up to you and it's always someone else's greed or w.e. You're so exploited omg I feel so bad. "This is just feudalism, the one owning the land scratches his a$$ while we work it" Well if you are so noble and smart why don't you save and get a piece of land of your own? Oh I bet you have an excuse for that too, don't you. (Spoiler: he did)


There's this X ad about stuffed animals that become hoodies popping on my IG feed (which btw only has a few artists and that's it), just like PillowPets but with hoodies. I go in to ask whether they come up all wrinkled when you unfold them. Random comment "sigh, I don't see any brown kid, nice ad" What? Did you even look at the whole ad, for starters (because there were several ethnicities, for the sake of the argument), do you realize a small business might not have money to hire a bunch of models and might be using just family friends or w.e....but if you are going to point out representation how about you do it in a less passive aggresive way? Takes the seriousness out of your plea and makes you look like an idiot.

That's just today and yesterday.

WTF is wrong with people? Don't get me wrong I'm not trying to say I'm morally superior but it's like this constant battle staying connected to society and just wanting to get a brickphone and keep informed through the little TV headlines on my job's elevator because I'm so tired of reading nonsense!!

I'm so disconnected, it even feels lonely. Whatever happened to making a logical argument? Ah no let's just throw ad-hominem fallacies that'll work, I win. UGA UGA yo momma so fat real socialism hasn't been tried yet!! Nordic countries are socialist just because they have welfare and UBI!!

Hold on how about you rethink that statement? -AH NOOOO, YOU ARE SUCH A SNOWFLAKE FOR POINTING MY FLAWED LOGIC OUT! LOOK AT MY ONE AND ONLY EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTS AT BUZZFEED SAYING YOU ARE WRONG!

...


I swear I want to be more social why is it so hard to find common sense. I don't even want to be right most of the time, I just want to exchange ideas. That's why I don't delete or hide people with different ideologies. But they make it impossible! I don't want to look at my phone, then again I don't want to be isolated, wtf is one supposed to do.
 
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There is a good chance that facebook is designed to make you feel as this post feels. Just divided, isolated, confronted, (and we know adicted).
It's a great tool for marketing and business... but with a knife or any tool, you can also harm yourself... so expand your thinking.
 

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If you don't want to live on this planet anymore, call Elon Musk. He may be able to give you a ticket to Mars ;)

But I really agree with you.
 
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There is a good chance that facebook is designed to make you feel as this post feels. Just divided, isolated, confronted, (and we know adicted).
It's a great tool for marketing and business... but with a knife or any tool, you can also harm yourself... so expand your thinking.

That's absolutely true. Facebook promotes controversial and outrageous content above others
 
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You would LOVE reading "Atlas Shrugged" if you haven't already.

In the process, put it down again because life... But I know what you mean yes I feel exactly like them, minus the businesses so far
 

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That's absolutely true. Facebook promotes controversial and outrageous content above others

It's not just that, people fall for it every single time, nobody questions anything, you've got posts saying avocados have gender and where to check because one of them is sweeter and nobody even bothers checking that nonsense they just share it to the death...you've got these overly simplistic images some one in their mothers basement makes and they go viral.... ugh!

Not just that I'll go as far as saying, a lot of people of course make money off that, because making that crap will help a page grow as you most likely know since you know how to grow pages, and as unethical as it may be, it wouldn't be possible if people themselves didn't love sharing them and feeling they've made a great point or something. Then we go back to like, "ohh look at you capitalist pig" But then again who are the ones that never learn?
 
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so expand your thinking.

You mean like eating flowers to cure cancer, like you suggest? Hard pass lol, Houssay, Leloir and Milstein roll in their tombs
 
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WTF is wrong with people?

Entitlement, or the feeling that they deserve things without having to take any action. Which is ironic, because they accuse productive people of being useless, while actually being unproductive themselves; or at least, not productive enough to make up for all the free services they demand as "basic human rights"... you know, a smart phone, Internet, universal income, free medical care, unlimited salty sugary snacks, free cigarrettes, other people's property.

Entitlement combined with an inability or unwillingness to do the things necessary to give them the things they want results in frustration and personal attacks. "Maybe if we vote for the right person, they'll punish the successful people for us, and give us all their money. That'll show 'em!" and "Those damned rich people... I'm poor because they took away all the money *I* could have had!"

I swear I want to be more social why is it so hard to find common sense. I don't even want to be right most of the time, I just want to exchange ideas. That's why I don't delete or hide people with different ideologies. But they make it impossible! I don't want to look at my phone, then again I don't want to be isolated, wtf is one supposed to do.

There are all kinds of social circles. It can take time to find the right ones. I know that you know some people now who you didn't know as well in January... that's a start, right? Beyond that, there are groups of people and nonprofits interested in Austrian economics, Objectivism, business, personal responsibility and self reliance, etc. You'll find a lot more to get along with in some of these groups than you will in a general sampling from social media. And when you do get to spend a little time conversing with "your people" it's a real relief. The strain of putting up with the people on social media seems less. It's like there's a whole other planet where the people make sense, and you can choose to go there from time to time, just by selecting the right venue, time, or topic of interest... and you don't even have to go into orbit to get there :)
 

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There are all kinds of social circles. It can take time to find the right ones. I know that you know some people now who you didn't know as well in January... that's a start, right?

Yeah for sure, that was a huge relief and one of the things I loved the most about the summit, it's just a struggle to find the same thing IRL.

And when I'm trying to reach out to people back home I just regret opening the browser in the first place.
 
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Edit: Sorry I put that stupid title as a placeholder and then I forgot to replace it for something more relevant.

Disclaimer this is a full-on rant and I just want to complain

I see this on Facebook since I periodically gotta keep up with the animal videos my mom and dad like to put on my wall:

View attachment 30760

It says "If the ones below get up, the game ends"

Well haha the ones below are just waiting for the ones on top to drop the next iPhone right? The last TV, the last console, etc etc, except they can't make ends meet because the greedy banks charge them interest on their maxed out credit cards!

Friend comments on Facebook "Nah the ones up there never did anything in their lives, they just make bank from people"

Really? Really MF? Do you know how Rockefeller started? Ford? Oprah? Whatsapp's founder? Starbucks founder? etc, etc, etc, etc? There's TONS of examples on Google. Y'all just have excuses for why your life isn't up to you and it's always someone else's greed or w.e. You're so exploited omg I feel so bad. "This is just feudalism, the one owning the land scratches his a$$ while we work it" Well if you are so noble and smart why don't you save and get a piece of land of your own? Oh I bet you have an excuse for that too, don't you.


There's this X ad about stuffed animals that become hoodies popping on my IG feed (which btw only has a few artists and that's it), just like PillowPets but with hoodies. I go in to ask whether they come up all wrinkled when you unfold them. Random comment "sigh, I don't see any brown kid, nice ad" What? Did you even look at the whole ad, for starters (because there were several ethnicities, for the sake of the argument), do you realize a small business might not have money to hire a bunch of models and might be using just family friends or w.e....but if you are going to point out representation how about you do it in a less passive aggresive way? Takes the seriousness out of your plea and makes you look like an idiot.

That's just today and yesterday.

WTF is wrong with people? Don't get me wrong I'm not trying to say I'm morally superior but it's like this constant battle staying connected to society and just wanting to get a brickphone and keep informed through the little TV headlines on my job's elevator because I'm so tired of reading nonsense!!

I'm so disconnected, it even feels lonely. Whatever happened to making a logical argument? Ah no let's just throw ad-hominem fallacies that'll work, I win. UGA UGA yo momma so fat real socialism hasn't been tried yet!! Nordic countries are socialist just because they have welfare and UBI!!

Hold on how about you rethink that statement? -AH NOOOO, YOU ARE SUCH A SNOWFLAKE FOR POINTING MY FLAWED LOGIC OUT! LOOK AT MY ONE AND ONLY EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTS AT BUZZFEED SAYING YOU ARE WRONG!

...


I swear I want to be more social why is it so hard to find common sense. I don't even want to be right most of the time, I just want to exchange ideas. That's why I don't delete or hide people with different ideologies. But they make it impossible! I don't want to look at my phone, then again I don't want to be isolated, wtf is one supposed to do.
Dont let it get to you.
If you accept how people are, you`ll have a much easier time navigating social interactions.
Dont be mad at ignorant people, whats the point in that?
Oh and common sense is a super power, very rare and useful.
 

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Human history is a bloodbath - there will never be any shortage of suffering. The people who complain about the rich exploiting other people don't actually give a shit about the people being exploited, they're just trying to denigrate them in an effort to justify their low effort lifestyle.

There is always something to complain about, or more generally, there is always something to be against. The people who complain about how everything is wrong with this or that, what are they actually putting their energy towards? What are they for? You'll notice that the people who complain the most aren't actually building anything, they aren't actually in favor of anything.

People who only whine don't count.
 

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You mean like eating flowers to cure cancer, like you suggest? Hard pass lol, Houssay, Leloir and Milstein roll in their tombs

You are right Bella, i'm a nut job just like these pubmed researchers:


Or perhaps i'm paid as those thousands of people that gave their testimony... only to get Big Kalanchoe's... money...

LOL.

Have a nice day darling.
 
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You must take the people which are there and how they are! You will NOT get others!
 

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Entitlement, or the feeling that they deserve things without having to take any action. Which is ironic, because they accuse productive people of being useless, while actually being unproductive themselves; or at least, not productive enough to make up for all the free services they demand as "basic human rights"... you know, a smart phone, Internet, universal income, free medical care, unlimited salty sugary snacks, free cigarrettes, other people's property.

Entitlement combined with an inability or unwillingness to do the things necessary to give them the things they want results in frustration and personal attacks. "Maybe if we vote for the right person, they'll punish the successful people for us, and give us all their money. That'll show 'em!" and "Those damned rich people... I'm poor because they took away all the money *I* could have had!"



There are all kinds of social circles. It can take time to find the right ones. I know that you know some people now who you didn't know as well in January... that's a start, right? Beyond that, there are groups of people and nonprofits interested in Austrian economics, Objectivism, business, personal responsibility and self reliance, etc. You'll find a lot more to get along with in some of these groups than you will in a general sampling from social media. And when you do get to spend a little time conversing with "your people" it's a real relief. The strain of putting up with the people on social media seems less. It's like there's a whole other planet where the people make sense, and you can choose to go there from time to time, just by selecting the right venue, time, or topic of interest... and you don't even have to go into orbit to get there :)

I want to echo what Rabby said. My FB experience got a lot better when I cut the "mindless" chatter, especially the "I'm convinced I'm correct so I'll get judgey on you" political crowd.

Now I have reasonable people to chat with on FB, many of whom I disagree with.

And like Rabby suggested, I sought out a few groups that discuss points of interest for me, I get a diverse group of interesting topics in my feed from that too. Diverse discussion but not divisive. If the group is divisive, I bounce, find another.

Add in this forum, a couple whatsapp groups, and some selective meetups for mostly meeting Bizy people, and my social circles have improved dramatically over a year ago. As has my overall outlook on humanity.

Hope that helps.
 

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When people on my Facebook newsfeed start popping up daily with their political BS or start playing the victim, I snooze them for 30 days. Helps me to forget about them for awhile. When they come back and remind me how insane they are being, I just unfollow them. Then they never show up again.

It has gotten to the point where my newsfeed only shows a handful of people. A quick scroll and I start seeing the same things. It has made Facebook a little boring and so I don’t open it up as much. At least I don’t expect much out of it. I already go in knowing I will gain nothing other than just a quick update. Other than my wife and a couple close friends, Facebook does nothing for me.

I’ve unfollowed some people I talk to regularly and they ask me if I saw something. Ummmm, noooooo? Hahaha then I’ll go manually check their Facebook page and there it is posted. I didn’t see it because I unfollowed you because I don’t care about how you think it’s funny that some meme relates to your life!

It’s pretty much the normal side of my life. Which is why the Summit was so awesome because all of you are incredible people who added so value to my life.
 
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(Most of) Reddit is the quintessential example of this. Worth avoiding it like the plague. A cluster**** of poisoned mindsets that work in tandem to shut out anything that's not group think. It's especially bad when it comes to large businesses / corporations.

"It would take xx,xxxx years at $100 per hour to make as much as Bezos has. No one should have that much!"

"Minimum wage should be increased because these people can't afford to live."

It goes around like this in complete circles as if grandstanding on an anonymous internet forum is the righteous path to getting things done.

So I'll say this...

Information is the equivalent of food.

Consume the right information and your entire being will be healthier. Limit bad sources altogether or treat them like a treat - say, something like watching the news or reading an online publication briefly for a couple of times a week.

Consuming too much information, even the good type, is no different than eating too much food, even if it's also good. The benefits become removed. Your brain will become fogged instead of energized.

Don't replace downtime with information consumption. It's a never ending rabbit hole and the only ladder out is to stop. Turn off the radio when you drive, take a break from your podcasts, turn off the news, etc. It's good to be connected but chances are most people are more than enough connected as is.

Relevant
 

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You are right Bella, i'm a nut job just like these pubmed researchers:


Or perhaps i'm paid as those thousands of people that gave their testimony... only to get Big Kalanchoe's... money...

LOL.

Have a nice day darling.

Well good job upgrading your sources, unlike your other post, maybe this time you won't end up in the landfill. Has anything on it changed since 2012?
 
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Edit: Sorry I put that stupid title as a placeholder and then I forgot to replace it for something more relevant.

Disclaimer this is a full-on rant and I just want to complain

I see this on Facebook since I periodically gotta keep up with the animal videos my mom and dad like to put on my wall:

View attachment 30760

It says "If the ones below get up, the game ends"

Well haha the ones below are just waiting for the ones on top to drop the next iPhone right? The last TV, the last console, etc etc, except they can't make ends meet because the greedy banks charge them interest on their maxed out credit cards!

Friend comments on Facebook "Nah the ones up there never did anything in their lives, they just make bank from people"

Really? Really MF? Do you know how Rockefeller started? Ford? Oprah? Whatsapp's founder? Starbucks founder? etc, etc, etc, etc? There's TONS of examples on Google. Y'all just have excuses for why your life isn't up to you and it's always someone else's greed or w.e. You're so exploited omg I feel so bad. "This is just feudalism, the one owning the land scratches his a$$ while we work it" Well if you are so noble and smart why don't you save and get a piece of land of your own? Oh I bet you have an excuse for that too, don't you.


There's this X ad about stuffed animals that become hoodies popping on my IG feed (which btw only has a few artists and that's it), just like PillowPets but with hoodies. I go in to ask whether they come up all wrinkled when you unfold them. Random comment "sigh, I don't see any brown kid, nice ad" What? Did you even look at the whole ad, for starters (because there were several ethnicities, for the sake of the argument), do you realize a small business might not have money to hire a bunch of models and might be using just family friends or w.e....but if you are going to point out representation how about you do it in a less passive aggresive way? Takes the seriousness out of your plea and makes you look like an idiot.

That's just today and yesterday.

WTF is wrong with people? Don't get me wrong I'm not trying to say I'm morally superior but it's like this constant battle staying connected to society and just wanting to get a brickphone and keep informed through the little TV headlines on my job's elevator because I'm so tired of reading nonsense!!

I'm so disconnected, it even feels lonely. Whatever happened to making a logical argument? Ah no let's just throw ad-hominem fallacies that'll work, I win. UGA UGA yo momma so fat real socialism hasn't been tried yet!! Nordic countries are socialist just because they have welfare and UBI!!

Hold on how about you rethink that statement? -AH NOOOO, YOU ARE SUCH A SNOWFLAKE FOR POINTING MY FLAWED LOGIC OUT! LOOK AT MY ONE AND ONLY EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTS AT BUZZFEED SAYING YOU ARE WRONG!

...


I swear I want to be more social why is it so hard to find common sense. I don't even want to be right most of the time, I just want to exchange ideas. That's why I don't delete or hide people with different ideologies. But they make it impossible! I don't want to look at my phone, then again I don't want to be isolated, wtf is one supposed to do.
I haven’t really noticed this online. I unfollow people who display a bad mindset.
 

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Turn off the radio when you drive, take a break from your podcasts, turn off the news, etc.
^^^ This (and the rest of your post).

I drive with the radio off. I turn TVs off when I walk into empty rooms. I buy a newspaper once a year probably, and I’m not subscribed to any podcasts. I’m currently only watching the news because of flood risks, and to keep up on local news related to the Corona Virus. I’ve ignored Brexit and elections.

I go through phases of consuming, but only because something is top of mind and I’m trying to immerse myself.

I want to hear my own thoughts and not get dragged into other people’s worlds.

I’m at peace letting a fool think he’s right. Have the last word my friend. You win a lifetime of thinking you’re right.

It’s a shame many will live their whole life with the wrong mindset. I’d have been happy to help them change their mindset, but I’m not going out of my way twice.


@BellaPippin ... just see these dumb posts and comments as great ways to find out who you can ignore.
 

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Random comment "sigh, I don't see any brown kid, nice ad" What? Did you even look at the whole ad, for starters (because there were several ethnicities, for the sake of the argument), do you realize a small business might not have money to hire a bunch of models and might be using just family friends or w.e....but if you are going to point out representation how about you do it in a less passive aggresive way? Takes the seriousness out of your plea and makes you look like an idiot.

In reference to this, you have to remember: "Common sense is not so common".

People don't want to think for themselves anymore. So many people cannot think outside of their own little bubble, and can't grasp the concept that a small business might not have the funds to hire models, that they might be using their family/friends as you said, might not have the time to meet new people or that their main priority might not be to include different ethnicities within their ads (even though as you stated, they did!) Just another reason to complain as usual.
 
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^^^ This (and the rest of your post).

I drive with the radio off. I turn TVs off when I walk into empty rooms. I buy a newspaper once a year probably, and I’m not subscribed to any podcasts. I’m currently only watching the news because of flood risks, and to keep up on local news related to the Corona Virus. I’ve ignored Brexit and elections.

I go through phases of consuming, but only because something is top of mind and I’m trying to immerse myself.

I want to hear my own thoughts and not get dragged into other people’s worlds.

I’m at peace letting a fool think he’s right. Have the last word my friend. You win a lifetime of thinking you’re right.

It’s a shame many will live their whole life with the wrong mindset. I’d have been happy to help them change their mindset, but I’m not going out of my way twice.


@BellaPippin ... just see these dumb posts and comments as great ways to find out who you can ignore.

I know Andy... sometimes I still struggle letting go of that, or stressing myself over helping friends that keep complaining but aren't really ready to be helped. This friend of mine has 0 self esteem due to many things in his life, and way too often I find myself trying to help him see he's not a failure; he just tells himself he is all the time, just because things aren't working the way he wishes right now doesn't mean that's how it's always gonna be, but it's like talking to a wall. He keeps saying things like "You are right I guess I don't work hard enough like the millionaires or don't have the million dollar idea" all sarcastic yet deep down he really really believes it and I just want to scream into a pillow. It ends up being bad for me.

I feel like a black sheep for all the people at home. A black sheep that is doing well because "I took the easy road and moved to a first world country". I can only make small talk with all my high school friends, my mom, there's very few exceptions...because I'm not preaching anything but I can only go so long hearing nonsense before I wanna say "are you listening to yourself" which of course 99% of the time leads no where, so I've lost my will to connect. It's sad!

I keep telling myself in my head I wanna do what you do (and I do most things as is, no TV, news, newspapers etc.) but a part of me feels bad or guilty about being so disconnected. Like, will I be that person that just isn't reachable, let friendships go, live in a bubble? I've been considering getting a dumbphone for years now, uninstalling the apps wasn't enough apparently.

I'm just rambling at this point idk. I'm frustrated lol
 

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In reference to this, you have to remember: "Common sense is not so common".

People don't want to think for themselves anymore. So many people cannot think outside of their own little bubble, and can't grasp the concept that a small business might not have the funds to hire models, that they might be using their family/friends as you said, might not have the time to meet new people or that their main priority might not be to include different ethnicities within their ads (even though as you stated, they did!) Just another reason to complain as usual.

Agreed!

Someone just shared on WhatsApp this fake thing about Carrefour (supermarket) using expired cheese "re-pasteurizing it" and selling it again. Ofc is viral... does that make sense to you? Like do you really think a well known supermarket, huge chain is gonna be reselling expired cheese, with the reputational risk that means, the lawsuit liabilities? All I had to do was type three words in Google and got the snopes fact check confirming its BS. It's just a matter of time before my mom sends it to me too, probably. Smh!
 
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It's not just that, people fall for it every single time, nobody questions anything, you've got posts saying avocados have gender and where to check because one of them is sweeter and nobody even bothers checking that nonsense they just share it to the death...you've got these overly simplistic images some one in their mothers basement makes and they go viral.... ugh!

Not just that I'll go as far as saying, a lot of people of course make money off that, because making that crap will help a page grow as you most likely know since you know how to grow pages, and as unethical as it may be, it wouldn't be possible if people themselves didn't love sharing them and feeling they've made a great point or something. Then we go back to like, "ohh look at you capitalist pig" But then again who are the ones that never learn?
No I feel you, people can be dumb, but at the same time Facebook *heavily* promotes it. I can have a post with engagement of 30-40% but because it's positive and not controversial they won't give it much reach
 

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Meh. Some people just want to argue for argument's sake. There's no reason to feel angry at someone else's opinion, no matter how uneducated and presumptuous it may be.
 
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My hypothesis is that high-achievers rarely waste their time on Social Media. They are busy living their lives outside of Social Media and working on their goals. On the other side, most low-achievers often have nothing more interesting to do with their lives than engage in time-consuming comment battles. I recommend working on Social Medial control techniques so it works for you and not against you. The world is full of stupid people, as well as smart ones - they just hang in different places and do different things.
 

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Edit: Sorry I put that stupid title as a placeholder and then I forgot to replace it for something more relevant.

Disclaimer this is a full-on rant and I just want to complain

I see this on Facebook since I periodically gotta keep up with the animal videos my mom and dad like to put on my wall:

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It says "If the ones below get up, the game ends"

Well haha the ones below are just waiting for the ones on top to drop the next iPhone right? The last TV, the last console, etc etc, except they can't make ends meet because the greedy banks charge them interest on their maxed out credit cards!

Friend comments on Facebook "Nah the ones up there never did anything in their lives, they just make bank from people"

Really? Really MF? Do you know how Rockefeller started? Ford? Oprah? Whatsapp's founder? Starbucks founder? etc, etc, etc, etc? There's TONS of examples on Google. Y'all just have excuses for why your life isn't up to you and it's always someone else's greed or w.e. You're so exploited omg I feel so bad. "This is just feudalism, the one owning the land scratches his a$$ while we work it" Well if you are so noble and smart why don't you save and get a piece of land of your own? Oh I bet you have an excuse for that too, don't you.


There's this X ad about stuffed animals that become hoodies popping on my IG feed (which btw only has a few artists and that's it), just like PillowPets but with hoodies. I go in to ask whether they come up all wrinkled when you unfold them. Random comment "sigh, I don't see any brown kid, nice ad" What? Did you even look at the whole ad, for starters (because there were several ethnicities, for the sake of the argument), do you realize a small business might not have money to hire a bunch of models and might be using just family friends or w.e....but if you are going to point out representation how about you do it in a less passive aggresive way? Takes the seriousness out of your plea and makes you look like an idiot.

That's just today and yesterday.

WTF is wrong with people? Don't get me wrong I'm not trying to say I'm morally superior but it's like this constant battle staying connected to society and just wanting to get a brickphone and keep informed through the little TV headlines on my job's elevator because I'm so tired of reading nonsense!!

I'm so disconnected, it even feels lonely. Whatever happened to making a logical argument? Ah no let's just throw ad-hominem fallacies that'll work, I win. UGA UGA yo momma so fat real socialism hasn't been tried yet!! Nordic countries are socialist just because they have welfare and UBI!!

Hold on how about you rethink that statement? -AH NOOOO, YOU ARE SUCH A SNOWFLAKE FOR POINTING MY FLAWED LOGIC OUT! LOOK AT MY ONE AND ONLY EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTS AT BUZZFEED SAYING YOU ARE WRONG!

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I swear I want to be more social why is it so hard to find common sense. I don't even want to be right most of the time, I just want to exchange ideas. That's why I don't delete or hide people with different ideologies. But they make it impossible! I don't want to look at my phone, then again I don't want to be isolated, wtf is one supposed to do.

I feel yah,

The unfortunate truth is most people would rather feel right, than be happy. It's the eternal struggle of ego vs. soul. People's ego are always striving to feel superior to others, so much so that they lose sight of what is important. Some people do it by taking the moral high ground, some do it by putting others down. People who act like this have let the demon of ego overtake them.

Focus on those who support you and add value to your life and continue to add value to the lives of others.

As for fear of Isolation, I don't know about you, but I'd rather be by myself and free of toxicity, then bogged down in a toxic crowd.

Cheers!
 

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