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I'm just middle aged and lost all energy for unproductive discussions. The second another poster posts something genuinely hostile, like "touch grass" kinda shit, I'm just done talking. Also if we're six comments in and the other guy won't even admit to being wrong to the thing he said on comment one, despite me doing twenty minutes of research to prove conclusively that he's wrong, I don't want to waste another second of my life on him.

I gotta have 10% of the "disengage" comments on this site.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

so i kinda ended up vomiting some personal stuff here so uh just a heads up

i used to be kind of a huge dickhead. i mean, i've got a bunch of Brain Problems & I think my egg was starting to crack, so i ended up having this stupid reactionary phase that just feels super surreal when i think about it. but i think about it a lot, because my favourite pastime was yelling at strangers online. i was actively feeding my anger because it was basically the only thing i had. i think about it a lot, because i must remember that i had completely lost track for a while there. & now my brother is going through the same thing, except it's far worse because of the post truth bullshit. his brainworms are only getting worse. like, what am i supposed to say if someone says it's a proven fact that women have never been treated as lesser BUT ALSO that women only have rights because men gave it to them this-is-fine

sorry. this is kind of a long ramble. but the point is, all this stuff has kinda led me to taking a more passive role in my interactions. i disengage & block v often because my being upset is a full body experience. i know i need to curate my media consumption with my mental wellbeing in mind, so even if a comment is pissing me off because i 200% know they're full of shit, i just move on, because it doesn't matter what i say to a person whose worldview is all vibes / projection. they see themselves as the Good & Reasonable People, so naturally anything that challenges their views sets them off. they're just not playing by the same rules at all & i'd rather use my energy on something constructive instead. there must be millions of people like i used to be & i gotta understand that not all of them can be helped.

i'm just so fucking tired.