Daily Thoughts

[zippypinhead]

I might actually rejoin Reddit if the bots have been blasted.

I'm not seeing any demonstrable difference there, tbh. It's still just rage bait and reposts as far as the eye can see.

 

[Maxi]

I'm not seeing any demonstrable difference there, tbh. It's still just rage bait and reposts as far as the eye can see.

Noted.

 

[MarieElise]

Ukraine blew up two huge data centers. Yandex I think. Home of the Russian bot farms. So many avenues of the internet are quiet or happy, positive stuff instead of die democrats! It's heaven.

Oh awesome, thanks for sharing. Long live Ukraine!!!! I spend my whole day fighting with Russian bots on Twitter, avoiding my real work. I'll actually be able to get stuff done for once. The gaslighting really works on me. I even know that's what it is, but can't resist arguing back.

 

[Vixxen81]

Oh awesome, thanks for sharing. Long live Ukraine!!!! I spend my whole day fighting with Russian bots on Twitter, avoiding my real work. I'll actually be able to get stuff done for once. The gaslighting really works on me. I even know that's what it is, but can't resist arguing back.

Did you notice less interference?

 

[MarieElise]

Did you notice less interference?

The last few days , yes. I'm also trying really hard not to go off as much on there. But, yes, imo it has been a bit nicer the last few days. I really truly believe the Russians are stoking this Gender war thing, and it truly pisses me right tf off! I've really let myself get really sucked into it.

 

[Vixxen81]

The last few days , yes. I'm also trying really hard not to go off as much on there. But, yes, imo it has been a bit nicer the last few days. I really truly believe the Russians are stoking this Gender war thing, and it truly pisses me right tf off! I've really let myself get sucked into it.

I stopped years ago because I was just this side of going postal about the whole thing.

 

[MarieElise]

I stopped years ago because I was just this side of going postal about the whole thing.

You were smart to. Its gotten so bad! It 100 % affect s my mental health, quite frequently. Lots and lots of deep, deep destructive negativity. But it also might be the algorithm bringing me more rage bait, because I interacted with the previous stuff. Its sad that that is what its been reduced to.

 

[Vixxen81]

You were smart to. Its gotten so bad! It 100 % affect s my mental health, quite frequently. Lots and lots of deep, deep destructive negativity. But it also might be the algorithm bringing me more rage bait, because I interacted with the previous stuff. Its sad that that is what its been reduced to.

I wasn't prepared to learn that men really do hate women. Not a little bit, a lot a bit. It's so gross.

 

[MarieElise]

I wasn't prepared to learn that men really do hate women. Not a little bit, a lot a bit. It's so gross.

Yes, that's still not something I can accept. Every time I am proven wrong, I write it off to: "Well, that man doesn't like women". But I literally cannot accept that. Maybe I'm in denial, but that's such an unbelievably painful thing to accept, and I just might not be strong enough to be able to be 100% honest about that one. But I also can't, in all honesty, say that is 100% false either. It does seem to me, often, that the majority of men hate women, (right now and all through all of human history & the space-time continuum). So I frame it to myself as "many people misunderstand each other, and many people over-generalize and misinterpret social behaviors, and unscrupulous others are capitalizing on that, by amplifying it for personal gain". Am I lying to myself, possibly?

 

[stormythunder]

Yes, that's still not something I can accept. Every time I am proven wrong, I write it off to: "Well, that man doesn't like women". But I literally cannot accept that. Maybe I'm in denial, but that's such an unbelievably painful thing to accept, and I just might not be strong enough to be able to be 100% honest about that one. But I also can't, in all honesty, say that is 100% false either. It does seem to me, often, that the majority of men hate women, (right now and all through all of human history & the space-time continuum). So I frame it to myself as "many people misunderstand each other, and many people over-generalize and misinterpret social behaviors, and unscrupulous others are capitalizing on that, by amplifying it for personal gain". Am I lying to myself, possibly?

Legally we were considered property until fairly recently in history. So maybe it's not so much that they all hate us as they've been conditioned to see us as slightly less than human.

 

[ts_cammer98]

Ex-sort-of-man here! lol I think the fact that toxic masculinity exists is plenty of evidence that we live in a patriarchal society(where else do those pressures come from). Saying that laws say everyone is equal is like saying the USA isn't an empire by definition. I don't know if in broad terms men actually hate women or if its that they view women as less and need an easy scapegoat for their own shortcomings. Either way, yeah society sucks!