Lots of people around me are excited for a racist march organised by flag-shagging, far-right knuckle-dragger Tommy Robinson.
So let’s call it a guideline rather than a rule.
Let’s make it “if someone is excited about something that doesn’t hurt other people…”
How about pro sportball? Those dudes get wrecked, but it’s largely considered acceptable to be excited about…
People were excited about Trump being elected and I make them feel shitty about it. How am I a bad person?
I think the post is more along the lines of people who like MCU releases and pumpkin spice lattes.
That stuff is all harmless, and I agree with the post in that spirit.
The obvious exception to this is cases of addiction or poor life decisions.
Like if you collect/play Pokemon or whatever as a hobby and are excited to get a rare card, that’s great and I’m happy for you.
If you’re underwater on your mortgage and your basement is full of beanie-babies - that you’re sure will make you rich in the future - but you just won a bid of $1000 for one rare beanie on eBay… yeah I’m not gonna be happy for you I’m gonna recommend talking to a professional
You just don’t understand, once I can get my hands on that Jonbenet Ramsey Beanie Baby it’s going to be my retirement plan, six months of back rent will seem paltry at that point, you’ll see. I’ve got big things going on, BIG THINGS!
LaBuenie Buaby
My coworker and i usually nerd out over some space shit but he keeps being excited for space x stuff. I always tear that down because fuck Elon. Other people are still doing cool space shit to get excited about.
I shame people when they mention asking an LLM about anything. Does that count?
I think there are certain things that we, as a society, can agree are worthy of feeling shame.
Racism is probably number one.
But asking LLMs for any kind of advice or using them as search engines should be pretty high on that list.
Good question let me ask chatgpt for a sec-
I mean, I dunno if I’d support someone being like “Yay, meth!”
But have you tried meth?
A valid question, for I have not.
You can like nu-trek all you want, but if my critique of it makes you feel dumb that’s not my fault.
I wanna know how so many people here know so many others in their lives that legitimately get excited about things like racism and shit. That’s the surprising thing to me in these comments
Maybe not many but an extended part of my family disowned a daughter because she is “gay”. Found that out just last week. So I suspect they get excited about this things just maybe not in the way most people think about getting excited
Is she OK? Capable of self-sufficiency and in a good place mentally?
I do not know, I don’t typically associate with that part of my family because of shitty behavior like this. I think she is, she went to college and has a good job, at least that’s the last I heard until they stopped talking about her. Now I know why they stopped taking about her
I think it’s okay to be excited about stuff, but when someone is excited about something, am I expected to also be excited about it or else I’m considered a bad person for just being like “oh cool” and then not being any further interested?
I think this post is about belittling which makes a person feel like they shouldn’t talk about what they’re interested in. Saying “oh cool” is, by contrast, absolutely a reasonable response.
I’ll never forget the time I bought a book called Never Eat Alone and my ex ridiculed me for buying it (she’s Chinese so the idea of eating alone was ridiculous to her). I ended up just putting the book in my bookcase, to this day I still feel shitty when I look at it.
Fuck her. Read that thing.
The obvious exception to this is cases of addiction or poor life decisions.
Like if you collect/play Pokemon or whatever as a hobby and are excited to get a rare card, that’s great and I’m happy for you.
If you’re underwater on your mortgage and your basement is full of beanie-babies - that you’re sure will make you rich in the future - but you just won a bid of $1000 for one rare beanie on eBay… yeah I’m not gonna be happy for you I’m gonna recommend talking to a professional
What if I am excited about making people feel stupid?
Then I’m excited for you.
Nice volley 😉
Damn. Now I feel stupid for being excited about making people feel stupid.
If you are excited about hyperconsumerist slop, I will shame you
What if you’re excited about military adventurism or the latest pogrom of an ethnic or religious minority?
Believe it or not, straight to jail
What if you make an appointment at the dentist and don’t show up?
“Teeth were a problem, I ignored them, it went away”
~Asmongold
Believe it or not, absolutely nothing!
Oh boy! I can’t wait to see more billionaires persecuted!
Dude tell me about it. I had a girl tell me she was exited about the tswift engagement and I just went full asshole mode for some reason and was like “oh you gonna go to their wedding? Big friends with Taylor?” … Idk why I decided to be a jerk but … Yeah I still feel low-key guilty about that but she’s said/done plenty worse so I probably should let that shit go.
Anyways, yeah I guess I’m saying sometimes I think people may not be totally aware in the moment of their dickishness so learn from me and just STFU if someone is happy for some dumb shit.
Did you apologize to her? Sounds like you were taking some of your frustration out on her and that’s probably not fair.
Yes, I’m not that big of a dick. My apology led to her sharing some silly shit she’s said to her buddies that were akin to my slip up.
It’s not like I punched her in the face and spit on her lol, if I had couched it better it would have probably just been funny but I just went hella sarcastic and dick mode.
In context she had said she got really good news then showed me the announcement on her phone so I was like expecting some actually good news for her not some stupid celebrity tabloid shit that’s ultimately meaningless.
Idk I know we all need our bread and circuses, I’m wrapped up in plenty of equally inane and pointless crap same as everyone else - sometimes I just am bad at being a human. I’m not very good at socializing in general, it’s something I’ve had to learn and try to study and be good at still - definitely does not come naturally to me. I’ve gotten pretty good at pretending, I’m a decent “professional people person” when I turn my human mask part of my brain on since reading people is something I’ve had to focus on because I can’t just socialize like a human being normally does.
But yeah that’s a very long way of saying, yes I’m not that mean of a guy.
If I’m excited about something, I am very selective of who I share my excitement with. The comments here verifies that choice.
Aye, I think that was one of the hardest things to accept as I moved from kid to teenager to adult. There are going to be people who wouldn’t care if you were just elected the king/queen of prom, or accepted to med school at 18, or discovered a new form of life on the moon. Find the ones who enjoy your happiness and be happy for theirs.
This is absolutely too general of a blanket statement. Piss all over the joy of fascists, that makes you a good person.
I’m not sure fascists feel joy. I think they can only feel anger and hatred. Maybe malicious schadenfreude at best.
They sure sound giddy when they’re infringing on our rights.
They’re brainwashed and have twisted views on most things, including what joy feels like.
Some people are sociopaths and genuinely can’t feel joy. Put those people in positions of influence (like we have), and the meaning of joy takes on the twisted meaning ascribed by mob mentality.
That’s what we need to fix. The reason we’ve been successful as a species for hundreds of thousands of years is because we’re a highly cooperative species who takes care of each other. We’re strong together.
Sociopaths being in charge ruins that. They’re less than 5% of the population, by the way. We don’t need to let them do this to us.
Wouldn’t schadenfreude already be malicious?
I’m sure deep down you understand the type of situation OP means.
Yeah there are limits to this for sure. If the thing you enjoy actively harms people around you then thats a no from me dawg. If you give in to endless consumerism and that excites you, then i will bully you for it.
Yeah, this is a worthless platitude. I wish this stuff wasn’t so mindlessly upvoted.
It’s important to respect that joy can be derived from different sources, but when a third of America is reveling in the misery of others, there are bigger fish to dry than protecting everyone’s feelings equally.
People feeling joy don’t become fascists.
