There have been some very helpful replies already so I’m just going to add this:

Imagine if your kids came to you and told you they were depressed (if you don’t have kids, imagine you do and you love them very much).

Then imagine that -of all the things you could possibly say to them- you chose to tell them what your mother told you.

How would you feel about yourself as a parent (or even as a human being) if you did that? Essentially calling your own children worthless for being sick?

It’s ok to feel that same way about your mother.

It’s like people saying their facebook got hacked when in reality, they logged in on a public computer and didn’t log out. Or their password is their kid’s name or some shit.

I always preferred Garbage Time, his car channel. Dude’s hilarious.

Post10 is so wholesome. His enthusiasm for everything he sees and does always makes me feel calm and happy.

Autopilot. That’s what I started calling it for lack of a better term. It’s like my consciousness moves to the back of my skull and I’m watching myself interact with the world as if following a script.

For me it’s derealization/depersonalisation (I always confuse the two) caused by complex trauma. Any social interaction can trigger it so I tend to avoid people now.

I heard about the Area 51 thing back when it was happening but didn’t think much of it other than “edgelords being extra edgy”. And I hadn’t given it much more thought after that. Until that documentary came out recently on Netflix. I watched it and I was mostly shocked about how much the military/government were shitting their pants over it.

The main thing I took away from that was how much power a large group of people would truly wield if they actually organized and worked together .

That’s the reason we’re all being pitted against one another.

And I looked, and behold, a pale horse! And its rider’s name was Death.

Lump sat alone in the oval office, shitting in his pants and killing citizens for profits.

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That makes sense because those tits are the opposite of calm.

Toxic people mistake kindness for weakness and you just told on yourself, assuming everyone thinks the way you do.

“Polls are now illegal.”

Eyes are drier than the Sahara.

Everything was completely Aladeen.

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There is/was this guy who would make really intricate linoleum tiles with meticulously cut out texts describing his delusional ideas about conspiracies around resurrecting dead people. It’s seriously wild stuff.

He made it his life’s mission to spread this idea by distributing those tiles across a large area around Philadelphia but eventually covering a large part of the east coast. He covered the back of the tiles in tar and found an ingenious way of depositing them on busy roads, where other cars would then drive over them and firmly imbed them in the asphalt.

While that in and of itself would probably be classified more as a mental illness than a hobby, it did sprout a community of people who went to spot these tiles on the streets to document and map them. It is also believed that some copycats have emerged over the years.

There’s an amazing documentary about it called “Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles”. I highly recommend it.

Yep. I don’t know about similar communities on Lemmy because I avoid them like the plague, but I’ve been on reddit long enough to know that r/conservative is famous for preemptively not allowing anyone who doesn’t agree with them and immediately banning anyone if they go against the grain even a little bit, accusing them of being leftist infiltrators.

It’s the only way they can maintain their hateful bubble and their persecution fetish.

It makes for a very predictable pattern whenever something happens that MAGAts would be expected to dislike. They stay silent about it until someone higher up shows them an acceptable response or viewpoint and they all fall in line for fear of being ousted.

You just listed every reason why I have never liked Discord but couldn’t really begin to explain why. Thanks for putting into words so clearly!

Aww jeez guys, why did no one tell me? All I got them was a whiny Lemmy comment, this is just embarrassing.

Wanna split a kilo?