They work harder and take credit for other people’s work.

It’s all about optics. Ruthless people ruthless control their optics, normal people don’t.

right, you’re not a the bigot here. not at all.

my cell is mostly just numbers.

no, man is not a label. i use it for women and queer people too.

typical lemmy. ‘if you disagree with me or challenge me you are just a hateful bigot’ straight to the personal attack because you have nothing of substance to say.

No, life is pretty easy for me. I don’t agonize over the labels of things. I mostly ignore them. Just like I ignore lazy relativism arguments that think words have no meaning… but who hypocritically get very defensive about those very same words.

None of those things are arbitrary, but keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel smart i guess? Jesus. Not everyone is so divorced from a physical/objective reality as you are.

I say ‘hey man’.

I don’t really use my name or other people’s names when interacting with them, no. I also don’t really use labels and I avoid socialize with people who are obsessed with them because I mostly find them to be massively self-obsessed jerks who lack respect for others and arrogantly insist they know shit they don’t.

Because I don’t really give a fuck about these weird arbitrary definitions of 150 pride flags that angsty teens on tumblr made up to feel special. anymore than i think anyone’s given name is some sort of ‘identity’ or horoscope of their personality.

and people bitch and whine that they are 5 bucks, not 50 cents.

lots of prepper fetishist weirdos in this thread who seem to think anyone who thinks electricity, plumbing, and internet is normal are ‘weak’.

because apparently if we were ‘strong’ we would all be hunting animals and coking their carcasses over fires and sleeping outside… and communicating via smoke signal… lol

anyone can be potentially attracted to anyone in the right circumstances…

Yes, you are ace. So you are making up a false narrative about how other people work, that isn’t true.

Very few people are like that. Most people are not attracted to most people. Most people are not attracted to others solely based on looks either. There is also a difference in recognizing someone’s beauty, and being attracted to them.

And I’m talking real world attraction, not sexual fantasizing.

the people you are in relationships get to decide what is valid to.

but if you never engage in relationships, yeah you can be an attack helicopter. but if you do feel that way, don’t be surprised that nobody else wants to interact with you.

that’s interesting, where is that distinction from?

you could stop giving a fuck about stupid arbitrary labels?

all that means is you are agonizing about how others perceive you and will label you and you feel it has some weight.

people have called me gay/queer my entire life. it’s annoying, but it has no bearing on what i really am. no amount of people calling me gay is ever going to make me gay.

because labels are feelings and your feelings are wrong, or something, but you can’t ever tell anyone else their feelings are wrong.

otherwise known as a normal person.

the vast a majority of folks only have sex in relationships. despite what popular media tells you.

also different standards.

one person’s clean is another’s dirty. etc.

most of them inherited their money.

most stupid people I meet who have all that stuff, it’s because most of it was inherited from mom and dad, or mom and dad had the connections to get them a 100K+ job straight out of college at a friends’ company.

And they think anyone who doesn’t have all stuff that is expensive as their stuff is stupid, because if they were smart, why wouldn’t they be richer than them?

I taught college for a few years.

Only about 10-20% of my students showed any evidence of engagement or understanding with the material.

The other 60% were just parroting everything, but that’s good enough to get B/C and pass the class and that’s all they care about.

And about 20% were total idiots who didn’t belong in a college classroom, but the school won’t fail them even when they cheat because money. 10% of my students cheated and I reported them and only about 3% of those that cheat get punished for it, the others get passed with a low grade.

Because people have different standards and don’t agree on what smart or stupid is.

I see people praising something as total genius, that I think is stupid as shit. And I see really smart things people say, downvoted into oblivion and called stupid.

People generally think stuff they agree with and makes them feel good is smart, and stuff they don’t agree with and makes them feel bad is stupid.

No. I’m rationally arguing with you that your viewpoint is intolerance of others. You don’t want a free and tolerance and inclusive society, you want one where you get to call the shots and you get to silence and bury anyone you find ‘offensive’…

That’s the irony you can’t see. That I’m arguing for a tolerance and free society, and you are not. You are not arguing, you are slinging shit because you have no argument, because you are the person Popper is talking about. You are the irrational intolerance pro-suppression pro-violence person. Because you have no argument, only your own personal feelings and you lack any empathy to understand that other people’s personal feelings differ and have the same value as yours! Oh no! No that can’t be, only my feelings matter!

Because you can’t handle the fact others are different than you, you see that difference as necessarily harmful. Which is precisely what intolerance people on the right think that you are so terrified of. You are a MAGA, you just don’t know it because you’re so irrationally attached to your own feelings of moral superiority over ‘ableism’, from which you feel you should have the power to silence others for using words you feel is hateful and harmful, irregardless of whether or not they actually are.

And how are you going to say, meet a intellectually person who thinks the r-word is funny and hilarious when their favorite comic uses it? Are you going to tell them what an ignorant intolerance horrible fool they are? I hope not. I think if you were a decent person you’d leave them alone and let them enjoy it, and not dictate to them how stupid and problematic their enjoyment is because it’s ‘intolerant’ or whatever. Weird how you would extend them that grace, but can’t see to extend it to anyone else…