I’m not hip to the lingo

  • @Anyolduser
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    512 days ago

    It is, but teenagers and the emotionally stunted fall into it so they can feel superior.

    It’s basically a diet conspiracy theory. It lets adherents think they’re special and have figured something out that regular people didn’t. That’s a lot more comforting than realizing they’re just regular people because they aren’t mature enough to see obscurity as a good thing.

    • @[email protected]
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      252 days ago

      If a child sneaks away from home to receive a vaccine and LIVES, despite every action taken by their parents/grandparents generation to attempt to prevent their receiving such “necessary” healthcare provisions… then I am not going to blame the child for being depressed about the very real, very scary, very tragic predicament that they find themselves in.

      Trump almost won, he may win again, and this time he said (there is video evidence of him doing it) that it will be the last time that anyone needs to vote, ever again; or in the UK Brexit has already happened, and there’s no coming back from that, especially as the more time passes - the UK is simply out of the loop now, and falls further so with every year that passes (even if they rejoin now, who will manage to “forget” what happened before? like an abusive husband, they revealed who they are).

      And don’t even get me started on the issue of the kid diddling - a couple years ago a huge scandal involving I think it was thousands of pastors in the southern Baptist organizations across mostly the southern states in the USA, and as always, more than it happening the scandal was the cover-ups afterwards.

      What is wrong with you if you think that their depression is a by-product of their “immaturity”? Unlike the olds who are willing to look the other way as their literal children are being physically raped, and worse yet society itself crumbling apart, with democracy hanging by a subjective thread, they at least are willing to READ SOMETHING - a book, an article, or watch the actual debate where Trump blabbers like a child at how big his crowd sizes are, and how toilets don’t flush as well anymore, etc., then goes off on a tangent about people wanting to eat cats and dogs or whatnot. Plus, has anyone looked outside at the weather in the last month…?

      “gee golly willickers, I sure would like to be moar like Russia, boy-howdy!” /s

      Age isn’t a magic wand that should decide any argument, either pro or con; rather, upholding standards of factual TRUTH should be the goal. imho at least, so sadly I am literally in the minority here, as measured by the electoral college at least. But I will agree with you insofar as it is a fucking tragedy that kids, sometimes literal toddlers, somehow know more than the older generations that have the entirety of the internet to call upon, yet refuses to read anything that doesn’t get pushed onto them by someone with an agenda to do so FaceBook - indeed there is a lot of “immaturity” involved here, though I am not prepared to blame the youths, rather than the olds who quite frankly should have known better, having a lifetime of experience to draw upon but willfully deciding to ignore all of that in favor of “comfort” (yet nonetheless, still willing to go out and perform a vote that will end up killing some of their kids).:-(

      • @Anyolduser
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        142 days ago

        Age and maturity are not the same thing.

        Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional.

        • @[email protected]
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          32 days ago

          growing “old” is also optional too

          - some people, sadly

          (e.g. Putin, and anyone listening to his propaganda, whether they realize it or not)

          • @Anyolduser
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            31 day ago

            I’m not entirely certain you’re thinking straight. You’re coming off a little unhinged.

            • @[email protected]
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              21 day ago

              I suppose you either get it or you do not - oh well maybe next time we’ll see more eye-to-eye.

              • @Anyolduser
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                21 day ago

                Given that you think Putin is promising people immortality, I doubt it.

                • @[email protected]
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                  31 day ago

                  Strange that when the options are life vs. death, and Putin is rather known for genocide, that you invent a third option - an impossible one at that! - and then attempt to ridicule me for saying it (when in fact I never did), bc surely I could not possibly have meant that someone could ever be killed, by the likes of sweet, lovable, adorable Pootie?

                  • @Anyolduser
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                    11 day ago

                    I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.

                    Lemmy is an anus of a platform filled with lunatics.