Lurker > CoorsLight

I don't claim to be an expert on many things either but you don't seem to actually know much about the causes you champion, you come off as having an initial instinct that something is good and then sticking to it despite whatever is said to the contrary. Enjoy wasting money/volunteer time on Andrew Yang lmfao

Mead I think your heart is generally in the right place but I don't understand how you keep falling for stuff like NFTs and Andrew Yang. Even charitably looking at them and assuming best intentions and ignoring all the red flags, there would still be countless other better concepts/leaders on the subject of societal equity

Also I don't give a fuck who does or doesn't get wealthy. Actually I'd be very happy if nobody was wealthy, I just want people to stop getting bombed and starved on the streets. It's obnoxious when crypto/NFT bros act like this is gonna make the world a better place but really all they have to show is "well a few people were able to hit it big!"

Nobody is "generating" wealth. At the end of the day the value given to it is tied to a real regulated currency and so that's just money that moves between people, up and down. For every person who does get rich off of it, you have hundreds who are barely moving the needle at all and a few taking big losses. It's basically just gambling. It's not some big revolution either, it's just like trading Pokemon or baseball cards except instead of having some physical object that has some tangible quality and rarity, they're trading ugly art of palette swapped apes and lions that have artificial perceived scarcity

When I got banned it was somewhat liberating but sometimes I'm also still a little salty about it ngl. But it doesn't really matter at all

Jesus Christ Mead. I don't understand how you can always be so close and so far away from getting the point at the same time.

Crypto and NFTs are just some get rich quick scheme. They aren't anti-capitalist. They aren't some magic thing that only the "little guy" knows about. What's really stopping the already rich from getting in on and exploiting or crashing it? I mean hell, there are already tons of rich people getting involved with it now.

I wonder what kind of project Ben was hoping to accomplish with that foot long board

Kotenks posted...

I find it juvenile when people attack his height or his relationship with his wife rather than address his arguments.

But the kind of people who like him are obsessed with particular "masculine" ideals, which generally include being tall and having good/lots of sex with women. That's why it's funny. It's not really cool to do it to a genuine guy trying his best but this guy is just a little shithead that gets paid by the Koch brothers to stir up shit that makes the world a worse place

I haven't played it but it seems like it's nicely geared towards people who haven't ever worked out. However, I'm not in great shape by any means and it looks a little too limited to me, so it's possible you'll plateau with it. But I think if you get to the point where you feel like you've plateaued, that's a good problem to have as someone who never worked out before

I also try not to get buyer's remorse over one single game cause I spend way more on dumb food and shit all the time

VioletMassacre posted...

Im not denying anything, but Ive previously been suspended for saying shit out loud. The message was something like tAlKiNg aBoUt pHySiCaL rElAtIoNs wItH mInOrS iS nOt aLlOwEd hErE uNdEr aNy cIrCuMsTaNcEs.

Uh, you realize this just makes it sound more suspect? Why would you be getting modded for talking about having physical relations with minors if you haven't done that?

Like, I even believe that you didn't do that, cause I remember it being that she was eventually an adult, but it's just annoying that now you constantly lie and backpedal. I feel like you also must have initially volunteered that information not realizing how bad it sounds, why can't you just own it?

That's the last thing I'll say about it, I do feel kinda bad indulging in it, but someone else brought it up to begin with anyway. I understand that you're trying to get away from it but even trying to be objective I think you have to see how the way you deny it just makes it look even worse.

Cacciato posted...

So whats this about you allegedly fuckin underage women though?

I don't think he did that but he admitted to basically grooming his eventual wife. Like he met her when she was 15 or something but didn't pursue a relationship til she was like 19 (and he was over 30 I wanna say). Then when people started being like dude that's gross, he started acting like he had no other choice (she came on to me, etc.) and now I think he denies it entirely. But I definitely remember him saying it, and I'm not one to just go after people with made up bullshit

Mead, I don't know if this is the time to ask, but I genuinely want to know... do you have any hobbies outside of posting on PotD? And gaming but that's a given. I know you have dogs too but I'm not sure if that's a hobby per se. Idk what all you're going through, but I think that finding healthier outlets for your time is never a bad idea (though I also get from experience that sometimes things that sound easy to do are hard to motivate yourself for)

If reddit is a website for very stupid people, then how come I don't use it? Checkmate

Judgmenl posted...

Eh? I love Joe Biden but hate the progressive wing of the Democratic Party outside of Ed Markey.

Case in point lmao

Man Judg still has like zero nuanced understanding of left-wing thought, classic "at least Joe Biden doesn't say mean stuff!" guy

shadowsword87 posted...

I feel like it's important to have humans do things, otherwise they just have a bad time.

People would do more stuff if they weren't working/worried about having enough money/both. Working drains you and doesn't give you enough unbroken time to get into stuff. Not working doesn't give you enough money to do anything cool.

shadowsword87 posted...

Sitting around all day every day leads to... emotionally unhealthy people.

Well I don't disagree with this, speaking from the experience of jobs where you sit around all day lmao

shadowsword87 posted...

Doing something menial and getting praise out of it is kind of a good setup for people.

I hate doing menial tasks. You think people actually enjoy that? The word itself basically has a negative connotation

DirtBasedSoap posted...

its a fake sub for upvote farming

reddit in a walnut shell

Regardless of the sub though I don't like the assertion that people are "lazy" for not wanting to work. Like 99.99% of people only work because they have to, let's be real. It's an artificial human construct, it's not natural to want to work - though yeah, a lot of things that aren't "natural" that we do are good. But you can't tell me that even if you "enjoy" work you wouldn't rather be doing something else with your life most of the time.

I get it also that we need some way of establishing order, and we aren't close to fully automating, but it's fucked up that with how technology is advancing people have a harder time affording things and the wealth disparity gets bigger. When people get fed up with that they crave the kind of shit that antiwork provides, and people on reddit are dumb and don't have a good eye for when something is fake

It's here

I dunno what to play though

Jesus Christ dude that makes you come off like a creepy weirdo who watches PUA videos. Stop thinking of it like some game where you have to hedge your bets. People can pick up on desperation especially when you act like that. You gotta have a real conversation with people. It can be a chance to connect with them (not necessarily in a romantic way), or if isn't but you're polite and amicable that's a perfectly fine thing too, not everyone is meant to be friends. Don't go up to people making yourself look like you just want pussy

The way you describe your experiences asking girls out sounds like how I used to apply for jobs, which was to put my resume in for basically everything that I was at some minimum level qualified for, even if I knew they were gonna see me as underqualified, or if it didn't even sound interesting to me. You end up getting in your own head with shit like that, and focusing on your "success" rate and making it a self-fulfilling prophecy that "no one wants me" because you're just setting yourself up for failure at an elevated rate.

And I mean you can do that but that's what you do when you're confident and can handle the rejection, not when you get mad at rejection

I met a girl when I was in 10th grade a couple years ago. She was in 9th grade. She was in my eyes, absolutely perfect. She was smart, funny, caring, and beautiful. Problem was that she was in a relationship at that time, which sucked because I really liked her and we were somewhat friends. So I decided to go after another girl to keep my mind off of here who was no where close to great as this girl, and it failed horribly. No relationship came out of it. The following school year, I took some time to myself and the friendship between the first girl and I grew. I was even giving her little surprises and gifts as hints as if to say, maybe we're more than friends. But it all came tumbling down because the day I was going to ask her to prom, she got asked by a guy who had the exact same name as me. So once again, I had to watch from the sidelines as the person I wanted more than anyone had fun while I was alone in the cold. Luckily, they where just friends, so nothing long term came out of it. My last year with her was absolutely wonderful. We were great friends, shared similar interests, and were as close to a relationship as one can get. I still gave her surprises, the biggest and the best coming around Valentines Day last year. I had gotten a box of Hostess Snacks Valentines Day cupcakes to give her. She was gone on Valentines Day, so I waited until she came back, which was the next day. I waited until class was over, and pulled her aside. I got down on one knee and went on a fun little act on how great she was and how much she meant to me. I gave the surprise to her and asked if she'd be my valentine. She said yes and we hugged.

I then asked her to prom a few weeks later, hoping for similar results. This time, I gave her flowers and a card parodying a tweet of a certain political figure who shall remain nameless because she liked my impression of him. I gave it to her the first week of March. She didn't give me answer until the second week of April, and that was a no. I was honestly broken for a week. I cried for a couple days. Yet after the whole ordeal, we were still friends. I soon graduated from high school and on my final day, I bid her goodbye, but told that we'll meet again. That was in June and as of now, it was the last time I spoke to her. I tried texting her over the summer just to say hi,only to get ignored by her. It turns out that I did too much and that's what caused the ignoring. I've tried texting her to apologize for what I did, hoping that we can start over, but that too has been met with silence. I think about her everyday and I miss her a lot because I know she's great. But it's painful. I've tried to let go, but when I try, the memories and the idea of it working out between us get in the way. I'm left confused in whether I should hold on and try, or wait for someone better. I've tried both, but in the end, I'm not wanted in either of them. I feel horrible and don't know what to do.

I hope someday he gets a job so that he can get his own place, a single room above a bowling alley and below another bowling alley

Does anyone else feel like there's some weird trend on PotD where seemingly left-leaning people end up being homophobes or transphobes?

Idk if TC is left-leaning to be clear but just like some of the replies when one of these topics come up make you go wtf

I honestly don't know if this guy is a troll or if he just has a way of accidentally speaking in the most subtly obnoxious way. I can't even explain it but like every time he says something, no matter what, it rubs me the wrong way

I mean, everyone could probably benefit from therapy. Getting started on it always sounds very daunting though so I've never given it a shot.

I have hobbies, it's not hard to be entertained/busy on a day to day basis, but I'm thinking much more broadly, is my life just going to be working some job from home that I have zero passion for anymore, then sitting around the same building where I just worked playing video games or whatever, for the next 30 years? I don't want that

I know most people are treating the pandemic as basically over but I still don't feel super comfortable doing stuff, and even if I did, I feel like socializing now is harder for me than it already was. And I know posting mopey stuff on PotD is dumb but here I am, anyways how do y'all feel about the whole situation

I mean it was always funny but it was also a lot more disturbing to me (both stuff he did and had done to him, like the catfish thing)

Now that all that stuff surrounding him is old and he's not here anymore, it's really funny to me. I'll probably never get tired of saying "bowling and gaming are my two main hobbies" for as long as I post on gamefaqs

Definitely an incel

My point here is that Yang sucks, he isn't the guy who is going to save us, and provided a few examples of policies/behaviors that are major red flags to me.

Look Mead, I engage with you because I think your heart is in the right place most of the time, but when you say stuff like in this topic it just strikes me as so wildly off base that I'm not sure you're giving everything the proper scrutiny that you should.

I don't know what kind of point you think you're making here. I already know capitalism is bad lmao it's the cornerstone of leftism but you're acting like it's some big revelation that only Andrew Yang had

Sadly you rarely get to vote for the perfect person but he's not even running for anything right now and you're acting like he's got everything figured out, while he has significantly worse ideas than people who have already won elections. This dude isn't worth anyone's time

Mead posted...

well thats okay to point out red flags

politicians need to be checked by the people and they need to be held accountable and removed from positions of power if they start being corrupt

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Or don't vote for people if the red flags are already there. That's how electoral politics should work, not saying that it does, but I don't get why Yang gets an exception because you like some of what he says

Okay, you don't have to share my view, but the things I said are basically true (if exaggerated a bit), and they're huge red flags to me as they fly in the face of a lot of leftist thought

Jen0125 posted...

Lmao and why do you feel you know better than others?

I'm just saying that Mead's clearly a lib is all

Mead posted...

and?

It isnt like he hosts a show or has an office there or something, hes just an occasional talking head. Not sure what that has to do with his safety in any regard.

Because you keep acting like he's some dangerous thinker the establishment doesn't want you to know about, but he was on an extremely mainstream network. That's not to say that they never talk to controversial people but they had him on a ton during election season

Mead posted...

they keep on doing it and getting away with it

Who is they? CNN? Major publisher Random House, and Amazon who sells his book? All the popular podcasts he went on?

The guy simps for people like Elon Musk, Israel and cops. He wants to give people a pittance that doesn't come close to cost of living anywhere, while not caring if it ends up replacing other social programs. He ran for mayor of NYC while having no real connection to the city for more clout in building his brand. I don't dislike him because I'm scared of the establishment, but because he is the establishment.

Mead posted...

Weve heard that story before. They dangle that carrot just beyond the horizon. Soon. Soon things will be the way they should be.

Its a lie. One side doesnt think government should exist so they are just there to troll and get paid, and the other side is trying to hold shit together with bubblegum and largely just trying to get paid themselves.

I know this lmao, probably better than you. I don't have any faith in the democratic party but molding them to be more left-wing is a better hope than a third party that potentially siphons votes from them, if it can even get anywhere being spearheaded by a guy who's all hype and consistently finished way behind when it actually came to a vote.

Mead posted...

We need to embrace human centered capitalism

Lmao

Mead posted...

If Im honest I do worry about him and his family.

The guy was hired by CNN, just lol

Dude is a con artist trying to capitalize on disaffected centrism. There are progressives who have been trying to pull the democratic party left, and in my opinion not only is that a better strategy than hoping a third party can break through, but the people doing it tend to have far superior policy positions to him

I've always found this kind of handwaving weird. I'll see a lot of "Well I don't agree with him but I'm still gonna watch his videos". The funny one to me is "separate the art from the artist" as if he's making some serious thought-provoking films and not some silly videos. Plus it's also not like a film where it might be one actor who's a huge piece of shit out of hundreds of people who are involved in the production. These are his videos, he's the main person involved with them and for me I couldn't stand to support someone like that all over some dopey vids where he shouts at stuff and it's sometimes funny

Also proof that "cancel culture" is bullshit, he'll probably just upload a video in two months pretending like all is normal

I stopped watching him after he outed himself as a white nationalist, and didn't think he really stopped slurping up the alt-right shit, but still sucks to see he's still dumb enough to say things like that publicly. And then I ended up finding out he's tweeted some dog whistle-y shit about believing in the stolen election lie. Complete fucking dumbass

Mead, do you ever think to yourself, "you know maybe I post on this website just a bit too much"

Lokarin posted...

I'll insert a metal rod into your torso, if you know what I mean

chelsea_wtf posted...

sorry lok, i think youre too squeamish to do a good job offing me quickly. plus youre probably not as tall as samus

I'm sorry but the EMMIs do this, not Samus. Did either of you even play the game

Is this a serious question lol

I guess that bowling and gaming are now his only two hobbies

Yeah I put him on ignore a long time ago but he seemed like much more of a both sides baiter. At least duckbear has made it well known that he's ASIAN and LIBERAL. Plus ducky traffics in a lot more traditional tabloid garbage which is still gross in its own way but often largely apolitical

That pionear dude is weird af too, one duckbear is already too many, why do people insist on copying him

lmao that moderator was spitting facts but obviously this site doesn't care cause he still does that seven years later.

I mean... he's easy to ignore, so whatever. But I too wonder what's going on with that guy's brain, the site should've banned him for his own sake lol

Yeah I wouldn't share my account for something like that with anyone either. I didn't really think you could give it to a different account but worth a shot