People want to feel superior to other people.

Easiest way to do that is to dunk on someone else, especially if you can ID them as part of an ‘inferior’ group.

Also, as a superior person, you don’t have to acknowledge the legitimacy of the humanity of inferior people, you can ignore them and deny them any emotional weight or sympathy. You only put your energy towards your equals and betters.

Don’t forget the self-pity.

It does. Some places are full of seething angry and unhappy people, other places not so much.

Where I live it was very chill 5-10 years ago, but now people are very vocal about how angry and miserable they are. I will go to a bar and listen to two people just loudly condemning other types of people, or bragging to themselves how ‘woke’ they are.

Disagree. In real life the past few years I’ve had more people flip out at me, and at each other than I have through all of my 20s and 30s. People are very much losing it. Also just look at the massive uptick in road accidents and road rage in the past 5 years.

Last time anyone tried to fight me I was like 15. I’ve had 3 incidents where someone tried to random fistfight me in the past 4 years. Numerous others where people were screaming at each other, often using slurs. I’ve also had random people approach me and scream in my face. These are rarely homeless or mentally ill folks, they are well-dressed people who are just insanely angry and go off on me about my ‘face’ or what I am wearing.

Pandemic and social media broke a lot of people and they are on a rampage of rage and hate. I also noticed a huge uptick in self-pity in my city. 10 years ago people were optimistic and felt good and positive, now they are miserable and cry about how poor they are, even when they are objectively wealthy.

Most health trackers are dumb less you’re an athlete, and if so get a Garmin.

They are notoriously bad at actually tracking your stats and are often designed to lie to you to make you feel good about yourself.

A down jacket I found at a REI garage sale that’s like 8 years old and still great. It was like $60.

It gets a lot of negative commentary though, because it’s not ‘fashionable’ because it’s not one of those $1000 winter jackets that people buy every other year because a new brand of expensive winter jacket is ‘in’.

passionate is a polite way to acknowledge that they have delusional beliefs and inability to knowledge reality outside of their own head where anything they claim or think is perfect and good.

It’s all guilt by association.

You can’t talk about anything here without some significant number of crackpots telling you how you are evil for acknowledging it’s existence, and how we must destroy anyone who says anything they find uncomfortable to acknowledge.

Right, so when I pull a gun on you, it’s just free speech?

No dude, it’s assault. Lots of people control speech in online spaces by taking out virtual guns. Threats of banning, harassment, doxxing etc.

I don’t know about you, I was involved in a subreddit years ago where members would stalk and harass people over online comments. Like drive to their house and take photos then post them online. That’s not disagreement, that’s bullying and being a psychopath who think they have every right to abuse and silence someone else for what they said.

Yep. I bet many people I have hung out with who are chill and cool are vegans. They just didn’t make it their entire life’s purpose and personality.

people have the ability to tune things out. ads never bother me.

No they wouldn’t. I’m of those people. I don’t pay for ad free.

They don’t care about you. They care about the people that do have the money.

Yeah, it’s a product of identity politics. One of the premises of identity politics is that speech in and of itself, is harmful and evil, and that we must use force, including the power of the state, to stop harmful speech.

So now we have this world where we are making laws and punishing people based on subjective perceptions of ‘harm’.

why do you assume they want to engage with it?

they are shutting it down because they want to shut it down. they want to ridicule and belittle and harass.

Maybe, but I’ve met plenty of vegans who scream in your face about it. And they give a bad name to everyone else, like any extremists do.

I also am biased because I dated a vegan woman for a year who constantly whined about it, and would eat meat, and then cry about what a bad awful vegan she was and if only I was vegan too I could show her the ‘way’. It was utterly bizarre.

So frankly, I kind of don’t want to deal with vegans in my life ever again given those experiences. Just like I don’t interact with people who have MBAs.

Yeah. The anti-theism thing here is wild.

I usually just assume they are into healing crystals or yoga, but that’s my own bias.

People here love ot hate on bigotry, but are totally blind to their perpetuation of it themselves. Because when they massively overgeneralize anyone who is remotely religions or spiritual based on a tiny extremist minority… it’s good! It’s fighting injustice and bigotry! But if other people do it, it’s bad and evil, and wrong!

Vegans who treat it like a religion are difficult to be around. Vegans who treat it like a personal choice, are not.

That’s true of any life choice though. People get offended when other people don’t make the same choices or have the same beliefs, because they feel in attacks of invalidates them as a person.

I mean, I don’t cheat in relationships and I am monogamous. But for many people that’s a controversial statement that I have had a ton of pushback on because it makes them feel attacked if they are cheaters or polyamorous. Usually informing me how ‘ignorant’ I am, or how ‘judgemental’ I am… for simple express my own rules for myself.

When people try to bully you into silence and complicity, it is very much being violated.

The vast majority of my replies on lemmy here are rarely more than name-calling and threats.

Yep. the motto here for most ‘free thinkers’ is ‘agree with me or you are a bad person’. They don’t really want to discuss things, they just want to browbeat/bully other people into agreement. They refuse to acknowledge things are complex and that their are various legitimate viewpoints… there can only be their pure and true version of whatever ideology they believe in and anyone who questions their interpretation it is a ‘false’ believer.

It’s idealism and egotism running into each other. So they just feel like going around labeling everything bigotry makes them some paragon of morality and truth and justice. Meanwhile they have no understanding of their own bigotry.