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As someone who had to read Kant for one of my college courses, I agree.

Immanuel Kant more like Immanuel Cunt

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Perhaps reformism and electoral politics won’t be enough at this point?

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I have worked as a software developer, and I recall being specifically instructed to leave error messages vague and uninformative. I think that the idea behind this was to obfuscate the system to potentially deter hackers.

Technophobes need to apologise for "just put it in plain English you stupid machine!" because, well for one the decline in accurate error messages in favour of simplicity has contributed to the rise of tech illiteracy, but also because now whenever an "app" has a net connection error it will pop up a box saying something like "oo ooopsie! Your super duper feed went poo poo. We'll try again soon!" which having said to me by a corporation is about 8 million times worse than having to hear the word "network".

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I just think it's neat!

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I was definitely more like this when I was younger, and I still am to a somewhat lesser degree. My goal is to enjoy things.

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I think getting a handle on your arrogance and superiority complex would help you with your mental and social issues. You're not the smartest person with the greatest ideas and most correct, universally applicable opinions in every room you enter. Or if you are, why don't you found a party, look for supporters who agree with you, actually go out and fix something instead of being bitter and complaining others do everything wrong. Go do something right then.

Fair enough. I simultaneously know on one level that I am not the smartest person who must be right about everything, and on another level, feel like trying to learn anything new now is a waste of time.

I definitely struggled with arrogance and feelings of superiority more as a teen, and I guess that that is coming back to some degree.

At any rate, finding people who agree with me and working together to fix things is definitely a good idea and one that I have tried. A challenge that I have faced there is in working with people who share a common cause but whose preferred strategies or aspirational examples seem counter-productive to me. There are very few people who agree with me on absolutely everything, after all.

Finally, I am also fairly depressed and often convinced that there is no hope for the future, no matter what I do, because the best ideas are opposed around the world by far more people with far more power.

Thanks for your response! I will try to think on it more.

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Okay, this hits me very personally. I am definitely prone to isolating heavily. A few years ago, I was much more focused on trying to get along with people. I listened to the audiobook "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie twice, and I really took it to heart. I actually did make a lot of friends.

Since then, though, as I have grown increasingly upset at the state of the world and at the people I blame for causing that state, the scope of that set of people has also increased, and I have become less and less tolerant of political ideas that diverge from my own.

I have far, FAR less patience to have discussions about these ideas than I once had, FAR less inclination to listen to anyone else's ideas, and essentially NO confidence that anything but emotional suffering and further entrenchment in one's existing ideas can come from having conversations about the most important topics of our lives, even with the people with whom we are closest.

The more I think about these things, the more hatred I feel for more and more people. I started to broach the topic of the violent thoughts I was having with my psychiatrist and his student. The psychiatrist told me that I scared them, and he pressed me to reassure him that I was not going to act on this violent ideation. So, he scared me enough that I do not think that I will ever be open about that kind of thought to a mental health professional ever again. The only coping mechanism I have is to isolate further and further, to get away from these conversations as much as possible, because the only thing they ever do is upset me and likely others.

I do actually have some people I would still consider real-life friends. They are people that I have met in real life and with whom I agree on important topics more than with almost anyone else, and I don't agree with them on everything that is important, so I just try to ignore those things on which we disagree, but I also end up avoiding those people too, to some extent. When I think about those things on which we disagree, I tend to get very upset, and it can take me hours to calm down. It is especially troublesome when I am trying to fall asleep. If I had options for friends that DID agree with me on everything, I would almost certainly shun everyone else.

When I spend time around these people I consider friends, I tend to get depressed, thinking "Wow, these are my comrades, and they think this? Our common cause is surely doomed." When I spend time around family members who are much farther to the opposite end of the spectrum, with whom I share no common cause, I end up literally wanting them dead. There are days I find myself relating more and more with the sentient supercomputer, from "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream", especially that line about hating humanity.

So... I do not know what to do with this advice. I get that it wants me to seek "emotionally corrective relationships". First setting aside that I do not know how to do that in the first place, the thought of doing that at all makes me feel very ill at ease. What is even the end goal here? To "rewire my internal world"? Is that even what I want? Would that even be good for anyone? What does that even mean? Being more tolerant of horrible ideas? Being better able to ignore terrible ideas? Being better able to make friends with people who have awful, counter-productive ideas?

I honestly don't know. I honestly think that maybe (just maybe) I and everyone around me are better served by me just trying to stick with the "avoidant coping" strategy I am using right now. 🤷‍♂️

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😭

If you ever need to feel better, just watch Mr. Rogers.

Tenna knows that and does this for Kris whenever they feel down about themselves.

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I hate that this is true, because I am in no shape to contribute to necessary operations.

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This is just like when so many beneficiaries of the Affordable Care Act were happy to cut Obamacare because they had no idea that they were the same thing. They just hated Obama and believed a bunch of lies about the act. At least one conversation I saw depicted someone informing a right-winger that, in fact, their beloved ACA WAS, INDEED, Obamacare, causing the right-winger to complain about there being two names, that that was confusing, and then blaming and hating Democrats for that. It was Republicans who coined the term "Obamacare" in the first place. Pretty much everything wrong is their fault, and their worshippers will never believe it or care.

We have very unserious conservatives.

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Democrats are by no means perfect. I am not a fan of their pro-capitalist policies or their willingness to support wars and genocides. I also hate that they are more willing to work with and make concessions to fascists than to socialists.

All that said, they are not the same.

Republicans will reach a new low every day.

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Wizardry by Sir-Tech Completed

I just finished playing the entire Wizardry series by Sir-Tech, ending with ascension to the status of Cosmic Lords at the end of Wizardry 8.

The series began in 1981, even before I was born, and now I have finally made it all the way through the last game, released 20 years later, in 2001. It has been quite a long and, at times, quite challenging journey.

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Wilfully vile.

There is also the insecurity factor. Trump ended the Iran Deal just to spite and disrespect Obama.

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24/25, I only missed one of the "What is this?" questions because it was something my family never had. I am 40 years old.

With the age of tumblr's user base shifting, I wanna see something

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Marxism saves! ✝️☮️