Vespair comments on Only The Best People

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 39 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I'll never recover, personally. The way my world-view was shattered by how many not just nameless strangers, but people I actually know and interact with, are the worst sort of hateful monsters.

My world is a different place now, and I don't think I'll ever feel the same.

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[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

It's stupidity and immaturity more than maliciousness, at least in the case of the US lumpen. The results might be more or less the same but the reframing helps with living in this world and believing in people's 'well-meaning nature'.

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[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I appreciate this, and it does help turn the ire into pity a bit, but I do worry that unfortunately the effect sort of remains the same regardless

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[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

And then they wonder why I try to escape from the reality.

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[–] MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Not as malicious but covid opened my eyes up

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[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I know. I have flat Werther's in my family. Real life people who think the earth is flat in 2025. Like did anyone think this is where we would be growing up.

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