pinkdrunkenelephants @ pinkdrunkenelephants @lemmy.world

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Because they're cowards who think they're safe sitting in a three ton fiberglass shell

There were actual studies done on it. In similar situations out in the open, people act completely differently than they do in cars. They think they're armored in those cheap things.

Yeah, it's not getting stronger. It's crumbling before our eyes and they're just blatantly lying about it to save face.

Tell that to the people who demand others forgive.

Of course, that's assuming there's something wrong with holding a grudge, which of course there isn't.

There is definitely something wrong when people who demand forgiveness purposefully equivocate the two so they can accuse victims, when they're at their most vulnerable, of holding a grudge when they call out everyone else for refusing to hold bullies or abusers or whatever accountable for their actions.

That's all their silly rhetoric is about. If you were abused and you are angry or sad about it and want whoever hurt you punished, you're the one doing something wrong, because it is not actions that they care about -- actions are, of course, expected to be forgiven -- but reactions are, because people who reject the paradigm are a threat to their little rape culture.

Meditate on that before you speak next time.

Well, would you look at that. It's exactly what I'm talking about.

If you want to manipulate other people into accepting beliefs that directly conflict with their interests and harm them, you could try not blatantly proving them right, to start.

First of all, I forgive you for not reading and trying to understand my point and abuse me by calling names. (There you go, you have an example when to forgive)

Like here.

When I said explicitly that forgiveness is used as an emotional cudgel by worthless, petty slimeballs like you to get your way.

And you're using it as an emotional cudgel to get your way.

And you're a particularly petty scumbag at that, while we're talking about name calling.

You're the kind of scumbag who'd get defensive and tell some poor girl you forgive them for calling out your shitty brother, or cousin, or friend for raping them, so you can feel like you got one over on them.

Hell, you'd beat your own spouse and tell them you forgive them for the inconvenience when they call you out on it in court.

Because just as I said, forgiveness is nothing more than a flex and a power-trip for vile fuck-ups like you.

You deserve the name-calling you get. Let them hurt you deep within, for all the lies and suffering your ilk imposes on everyone else without a second's thought.

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Oh, calling it now: you are going to respond: "Well, I hope YOU feel better, find healing and find peace in your life", because of course the morality behind forgiveness isn't about what's good for other people, it's about asserting superiority over others so you can make yourself feel better. Because of course having a grievance against you is always bad, and negative feelings bad, positive feelings good, and anyone who feels bad is always inferior to you. That is how abusers think. We've all seen that lame-ass song and dance before.

It's okay though. I actually do have a happy peaceful life, because I reject people like you. I don't keep trash in my life.

It's almost like federation is a stupid fucking idea that doesn't work

It's almost like it's fundamentally broken and no one else wants to admit it

Actually, that example is a perfect example of why forgiveness is a terrible thing most of the time.

It is a clearly fictional scenario built on imaginary foundations with the explicit purpose of emotionally manipulating other people into accepting unacceptable, egregious abuse,

Someone who is a week away from dying being purposefully abusive to those around them is someone who has always been abusive to the subject in question and is someone who the victim should not only have put in their place earlier in life but probably couldn't, is also someone the victim should have simply abandoned to nursing home care in the first place. But again, the victim likely could not have as they were being abused their whole lives.

I know this because I work with the elderly. I see the sad stories play out every day. A lot of people in nursing homes are there because they deserve to be.

And you know they were able to get away with abusing their victims all their lives?

Because of dumb fucks like you trying to emotionally bludgeon everyone else into accepting forgiveness.

There are very few times in life when it's worth it to forgive someone and that "very few" is only there so I can show everyone else I am right when you exploit it to try to shove the issue down my throat like you do to myself and other abuse survivors. Or my clients and their kids. Or everyone else.

It literally doesn't matter what color life is. Forgiveness is a vice and a moral failing, especially for those who advocate it.

Ancient alien theory is extremely racist and I am shocked people don't reject it on those grounds alone.

Nah. Real strength is holding them accountable even when someone else demands you forgive them no matter how horrible their actions.

Accountability and justice require more real strength than easy, selfish, lazy, cowardly forgiveness.

We don't need to shut down our ability to think critically to assuage the feelings of other people. That's not something any of us have the right to ask regardless of our condition.

Pizza rolls are disgusting.

There's nothing weird about drinking milk.

We need to overthrow the shitty system and replace it with a new one, is what we need to do.

Abstract linguistic concepts ensure you can eat.

Are you drunk as me right now or is the Mary Jane making you seeing pink elephants too?

Then they're clearly lying or ignorant, for it will do the opposite.

🤔 I made a thread a while back asking people here what they would do if they were founding a country, and one guy had the best solution I ever heard anyone come up with:

It was this tiered, hierarchial council lottery system where people were randomly elected to serve on councils that managed every aspect of day to day life. Eligibility for each council depended on your education, age, background, etc. and it was set up such that you had to take leave from your old job, but your spot would be held, you'd be paid the same rate you were before, etc. to disincentivize people from not participating.

He went into a lot of detail about it, and had a long writeup for it because it was a project for his pol sci degree, and it was based on the assumption that no human involved was scrupulous or trustworthy, and if some aspect of the system could be abused, it would be.

To this day I have not seen anyone come up with a better governance idea, past or present.

All that's going to do is give abusers power over others.

What really needs to happen is for that kind of tech, and more importantly using any software, AI or not, to do such a thing, to be outlawed. It shouldn't be protected under the first amendment.

ROFL You complain about other people being derisive while you yourself lash out and abuse others every chance you get. Because of course your fee-fees matter, but others' do not.

Sure. Please block me asshole, I’ll block you too

Oh my god, I remember who you are now. You go and get 'em, tiger. I'm sure the broken blocking feature will work the 26th time your dumb ass uses it to try to assert power over others.

You're an asshole and a bully. You're exactly like the right-wing anti-LGBTQ bible thumpers you think yourself superior to. You are exactly the arrogant, immature, emotionally weak sack of shit you accuse others of being.

Now go ahead. Throw a temper tantrum and block me too. Let me get another laugh out of you. Or I'll block you first; does that mean I'll win something?

The real joke is that the founding fathers genuinely expected people to be fair, impartial and unbiased.

I don't necessarily buy that. 30% of the population are Trump supporters and that includes a large number of people in the military and veterans. I can see the military acting in favor of the fascists.