what does it mean when you actually kind of start to enjoy stupid people for entertainment purposes? 😭
@Armchaircouch That you have accepted and thus are now complicit in the stupid (unless you're doing something to fix it while you laugh).
@Armchaircouch Hate to say it, but if you're getting off on it, and not fixing it, you are supporting it.
ps “getting off on” is a very dramatic way to paraphrase what I actually said and would be actually quite incorrect. I think if I was actually getting off on the stupid I would need medical attention. @AskTheDevil
@Armchaircouch I might be biased, in that I don't have a desire to laugh at things that are terrible and harming people. I also don't laugh when people degrade themselves or do stupid thing. Laughing just doesn't _work_ that way for me.
I'm wired weird. I know. I know primates are supposed to laugh at pain.
But I think if you're using stupidity for amusement, you're abetting something unwholesome instead of acting against it.
I loathe "Jackass". Don't get me started on Trump.
Ah, gotcha. There in lies our difference. I have been much darker since infancy and I laugh at things that are not funny too many people. (unless there’s injury involved, I do not find that funny).
To clarify, though, I don’t use stupidity for amusement, when it’s now crosses my path, unfortunately, it has become amusing. Maybe it’s for self preservation of my mind I don’t know… @AskTheDevil
@Armchaircouch I just feel like more and more, people are retreating into pretending that _monstrous_ behavior is "funny" instead of doing something about it.
@Armchaircouch @AskTheDevil I’ll laugh at the darkest shit. I make no apologies for that myself. I’m not talking pointing and laughing. That’s cruel.
OK, it is definitely trying to find relief in and intolerable situation. I have definitely cracked about the absurdity of everything over the last 8+ years
All that said, how would you suggest that I go fix that man’s delusion. First I would have to make an X account, would you like to do this with me? Should we both go leave a comment on his page?
and playing devils advocate :) do you do this for every delusional comment you see on SM? if not do you accept you are “complicit” @AskTheDevil
@Armchaircouch Well, you certainly don't fight that by going to his site, giving him the attention he desires, and laughing while he tries to burn down society.
(I assume we're talking about Musk here?)
And we're talking about laughing. When I see stupid on social media, I usually confront it, sometimes I block it, but I don't sit laughing at it, because it's not really funny.
No i was referring to an image someone posted from a military guy. I dropped off the X site because it held no value for my life so I was able to remove my account/support of it.
I think I bug the crap out of folks here sticking up for nauts a lil too aggressively when it never involved me to begin with lmao. I was raised by a woman who sticks up for people, I took on that trait, irl, and if I see bullying here I call it out. I’m sure i’m blocked or muted by many. @AskTheDevil
@Armchaircouch For my part, I'm sorry I'm so cranky and reactive lately. What I should be doing is trying to think of positive and encouraging things to say instead of being angry at everything and getting it all over people who just make some innocent comment.
@Armchaircouch Also 🖤 for opposing bullies, and 🖤 for putting up with me, too!
♥️ Ditto, my friend! :) @AskTheDevil
@Armchaircouch You're pretty easy to put up with. : )
🖤
🤗 Well, thank you! @AskTheDevil
you’re 2018 me! :) @AskTheDevil
@Armchaircouch I'm 2,000 years ago me, sometimes.
@Armchaircouch If you are laughing at it, that's what I mean. I don't mean that you are having a sexual orgasm.
Dirty minds, people.
Look. It can _also_ mean you're trying to find relief in an intolerable situation, or even that you've cracked up a little or seen the absurdity in everything.
But if you're being amused instead of fixing it, you're supporting it, _too_, whatever else is going on.