here's the thing: everyone complains about late capitalism and how alienated and isolated we all are. everyone acknowledges this, and reassures each other of this, alone.

you need to get out of yourself, and your head, and your small bubble of one, and you need to go see old friends, or former friends, or people in your social circle who are just meh, or your annoying roommates, or your co-workers, or your former co-workers, or your lame family members, or your lame and bigoted family members, or strangers at a bar, or whomever, and party. meeting people is praxis, strengthening relationships is praxis, making yourself seen and vulnerable to another is praxis. please, guys, go out.

this, here, now, is a facsimile, mediated through a thousand screens. go kiss, go get kissed, go reject a kiss, go be denied a kiss. go out.

  • Yeat [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    genuinely suprised at the reaction to this post

    obviously capitalist alienation isn’t our faults individually and is a societal problem and we shouldn’t be irresponsible about covid but you all are proving their point in a way jesus christ

    • Zodiark [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I think the post is badly phrased.

      It's really just a "Take initiative to pursue a social life" which is just really mild advice that it comes off as simultaneous welcome reminder to be a social being and condescending that the audience is so radically socially inept.

      I'm surprised this struck such a nerve though.

      • Yeat [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        exactly, you worded that well. i don’t feel like op had any ill intentions or posted this in bad faith though so to see everyone say “fuck you” to them seems very gross and mean.

        • Zodiark [he/him]
          ·
          2 years ago

          Honestly reminiscent of that r/cth post about being a virgin that was apparently read on cumtown.

            • Leper_Messiah [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              Wait, was that an actual struggle session? I saw that post early and i chuckled because i thought it was funny...

              Is washing ass a controversial opinion?!

              • Spectre_of_Z_poster [they/them]
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                2 years ago

                nah it devolved into a struggle session about bidets vs. toilet paper and which was bourgeois decadence. the user who thought a $15 bidet was middle class extravagance went off the rails and started insulting everyone until they were banned

              • Zodiark [he/him]
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                2 years ago

                I mean OP came off as sincere but socially insensitive at worst. I don't see hostile intent in his wording unless other posters here can invoke the powers of SCOTUS judges to read the minds of authors not present.

                "Live a little" is now fighting words. Meet me in the schoolyard at 3 o'clock.

                Yeesh. Invoke the options of: Ignore it. Disengage.

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Calling other people on Hexbear "disgusting" as you did because they're not socially outgoing enough for you is worse.

          • Yeat [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            you’re misreading what i’m saying or i just worded it poorly. someone not being outgoing isn’t “disgusting”, i’m not even very outgoing myself and don’t absolutely love being social, i tend to stick to myself a good chunk of the time. what’s disgusting is the REACTION to this post since it wasn’t made in bad faith and was obviously meant to be some nice encouragement to those op felt needed it, sorry for the mix up

            • UlyssesT [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              i had a serious thing typed up in response but after re-reading i feel like you’re joking with me i can’t tell LMAO

              Everything's a quirky le random just a prank bro joke to you, or you're being taken out of context.

              Pick one.

              what’s disgusting is the REACTION

              When someone concern trolls about what everyone else should/must be doing with their personal lives, that kind of reaction is likely to happen.

              was obviously meant to be some nice encouragement

              :doubt: and even if that's wasn't the intended case, clearly a lot of people did see it as hurtful and insulting and blaming people for feeling hurt and insulted is chud brained.

              • Yeat [he/him]
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                2 years ago

                i thought you were joking at first because of the emoji, how you worded things, you trying to imply i was a wrecker or something 😭 you do actually make a good point at the end there though, but i just cannot wrap my head around this being a hostile post at all

                • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                  2 years ago

                  but i just cannot wrap my head around this being a hostile post at all

                  There's an old saying about comedians: it isn't the audience's responsibility to laugh. It's the comedian's responsibility to try to make them laugh.

                  I think it applies here too: if the audience feels hostility or insult, blaming them for feeling hostility and insult is also hostile.

                    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                      2 years ago

                      I just came back from a celebration and you're either calling me a shut-in or you're just being abrasive toward people you're calling shut-ins.

                      No hostility in the OP's dubious advice or those that are stanning for it. Totally none.

                        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                          2 years ago

                          That's an incredibly generous reading of both the OP and the prior replies leading up to here.

                          You're upset enough at me sticking up for "shut ins" that you're apparently accusing me of being a "shut in" too.

                          Half the users in here are acting like there’s a zombie outbreak and they will die if they go outside lol

                          No hostility from the OP or the OP's "advice" defenders. None at all! :sus:

                            • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                              2 years ago

                              Your least hostile post yet. It's so disgusting that some shut-ins didn't accept the not hostile wholesome advice, isn't it? Some might even say it's crazy which never means someone is mentally ill. :sus:

                              • Spectre_of_Z_poster [they/them]
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                                2 years ago

                                you are vastly more hostile than anyone else in here, and every comment you make drips with condescension and like 6 layers of intention mind reading and assumptions

                                • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                                  2 years ago

                                  Are you going anywhere with this besides further demonstrating that the "not hostile" unsolicited advice for "shut-ins" maybe was hostile after all if you feel this strongly about defending it?

                                  • Spectre_of_Z_poster [they/them]
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                                    2 years ago

                                    do you ever stop and re-read your comments to see how you would sound to an outside person? you're always airing some ancient grievance of yours that you've built up over the months of obsessive posting, and you're always passive aggressively trying to dunk on people you argued with and one up them months later - resulting in these complex gordian knots of comments where the only thing outsiders can parse is the condescending tone and emojis, and the implications within implications that you are following are entirely lost to everyone else

                          • space_comrade [he/him]
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                            2 years ago

                            That’s an incredibly generous reading of both the OP and the prior replies leading up to here.

                            It's a pretty normal reading actually, it baffles me how anybody could be so upset at a post like that tbh.

                            • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                              2 years ago

                              I'll just agree to disagree there.

                              it baffles me how anybody could be so upset at a post like that tbh

                              It isn't the responsibility of an audience to have the exact reaction the speaker demands of them.

                              • space_comrade [he/him]
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                                2 years ago

                                If your first reaction to somebody being happy and telling other people to be happy and socialize is "um ackschly sweaty..." you should probably do some introspection.

                                • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                                  2 years ago

                                  to somebody being happy and telling other people to be happy and socialize

                                  There's that generous interpretation I mentioned. Cherry-picking, really.

                                  People didn't react the way OP (or you) wanted them to. So clearly that wasn't their interpretation. Apparently to you that interpretation is invalid.

                                  I tried sticking up for other people and it's been tiring, even if it only makes the hostility more apparent with each defense of it.

                                  I'm really not interested in going through this song and dance yet again this morning.

                                  • space_comrade [he/him]
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                                    2 years ago

                                    Apparently to you that interpretation is invalid.

                                    It's not invalid, it is unhealthy though.

                                    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                                      2 years ago

                                      It's only healthy to thank someone for abrasively delivered unsolicited advice?

                                      I personally went out. I think I came back too soon, especially considering the shitstorm in this thread because I tried sticking up for people that couldn't, wouldn't, or shouldn't for any number of reasons.

                                      Is it "unhealthy" for all of them no matter their reasons?

                                      • space_comrade [he/him]
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                                        2 years ago

                                        If they didn't like the post they could have just, you know, scrolled past it and not interact with it. OP wasn't calling out anybody in particular, it's entirely yours and their choice to take the post so seriously.

                                        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                                          2 years ago

                                          If they didn’t like the post they could have just, you know, scrolled past it and not interact with it.

                                          If that applies, then if the OP's defenders didn't like the replies that the OP received, they could have done the same. It was entirely their choice to take those replies so seriously.

                                          I'm tired of this. I logged back in too soon and this "not hostile" thread harshed my buzz. I better go.

    • macabrett
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      2 years ago

      I mean, as an immunocompromised individual, I just spent the third year of my life not being able to do anything so this post kinda sucks shit for me

      • Kuori [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        yeah it doesn't really work for everyone

        p sure if i hit up my "lame and bigoted family members" to be "seen and vulnerable" they'd throw a rope around my neck

      • Yeat [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        i clearly said “we shouldn’t be irresponsible about covid”

        • Kuori [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          there's no controlling how others are about covid. as a society we are being irresponsible about covid and going out and socializing is accepting that you will almost certainly get it at some point in your life, most likely multiple times. whether or not that is personally devastating enough to you to keep you inside is obviously gonna be individual

        • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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          2 years ago

          There is no way to visit random folks at parties and be safe about covid during a spike. It's just not possible.

  • HauntedBySpectacle [he/him, comrade/them]
    ·
    2 years ago

    hexbear commenters and reading innocuous, well-intentioned posts as personal attacks in the most uncharitable way possible to air your grievances. name a better duo

  • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
    ·
    2 years ago

    no i am going to hide inside my room all day listening to podcasts and playing video games i don't like and then acting shocked when i hate myself

  • Cherufe [he/him]
    ·
    2 years ago

    This site went from struggling about cats being outside to struggling about oneself being outside

  • AHopeOnceMore [he/him]B
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    2 years ago

    Do that but also, you know, be careful wrt the ongoing mass disabling global pandemic

  • 4zi [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Tangentially related but I just moved out of a slum apartment block in a really bad part of town to a decent ‘nice’ ‘luxury’ apartment complex in a wealthier area and i wasn’t prepared for how socially alienating it is being in the nicer place. I miss my old neighbors terribly, and didn’t realize how much I was actually interacting with them each day. Every time I passed by my next door neighbor outside smoking I would bum a cig and we would chat. And he never minded because he was an older man who loved to tell stories. Me and another neighbor always did our laundry at the same time so we would bring beers in the laundry room and bullshit around. Sometimes when I would use the grill another neighbor would come up and we’d talk about food or whatever. Even though I lived alone, I never really was alone.

    Now I’m in a nice place where the forced socialization isn’t really there by design. The most interaction I’ve had with my next door neighbor is meeting them on the elevator, and it was just a friendly introduction and that was really it. No one wants to talk, everyone has their headphones in. It’s incredibly lonely.

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Solution I have found: be thar fucking weirdo that just goes up to people and goes in for a full conversation like an Elder Scrolls player character. Shit just like, works. I chatted up a sweet old lady about this mutual neighborhoud cat we both pet and found out she was being illegally evicted in a way that i acrually dealt with before. She started by asking about apartments in the area and then explained her situation, I had been through the exact same scenario and it's all sorts of illegal to boot her out, it's being sold to another landlord and unless the buyer plans to say turn a flat back into a house and acrually occupy it, they cant remove tennants

      • GaveUp [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        100%. If you've ever heard people randomly just saying shit outloud to nobody/everybody on the bus, subway, or at a bar, it's not always because of a psychotic break/drunkness. Often times it's just somebody looking to start a conversation and they know eventually, somebody will respond to their loud monologue ramblings

        • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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          2 years ago

          And that person is me. I tricked myself into thinking i had bad social skills for a while but I am a fucking people at heart big time and after admitting it ive been described on more thsn one occasion as 'really fucking charming'. People are cool and fun for the most part, as far as figuring out who, if you smoke, other smokers but in general, old people are down hard to chit chat .

            • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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              2 years ago

              Also, I speak English and French but specialize in shitty translations of languages i dont speak:

              me: “hey, whered you get those llamas?”

              kid: “[kid’s name]”

              me: “my llamas [strawberry].”

              kid: …

              me: …

            • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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              2 years ago

              I have a LOT going on that talking to people well was as easy as deciding to talk to people. Like, all my best qualities are for speech checks, ive always been and knew pretty really on that im fucking hilarious, very quick witted and am a massive langugage need and have a huge vocabulary. So yeah, for me it was a matter of getting over myself and finding out it's probably my greatest asset and that is also why i advocate it, but yeah, different people have diferent root causes.

      • CanYouFeelItMrKrabs [any, he/him]
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        2 years ago

        This makes sense because I've formed friendships with who were just talking to me out of nowhere. Even if I was initially annoyed/nervous by them talking

    • GaveUp [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      People who make a lot of money are very open to socializing at more luxurious events/places

      Rock climbing gyms, golf, and tennis for example are some places where people are very open

      I've noticed what you said and I don't really get why people who make more money are less open to socializing in random places

      • 4zi [he/him, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        More so the nicer complex is designed so you aren’t forced to socialize. Everyone has their own washer dryer, so you don’t have to leave your apartment to use the laundry room. Everyone has a balcony, so if you want to raise plants you do it on that instead of in a community garden, etc.

        Maybe it’s just the culture of the new community I’m in but every time I try to strike up a conversation, it just goes nowhere quick. People only leave their apartment to pick up food courier orders or go to work.

  • SuperNovaCouchGuy2 [any]
    ·
    2 years ago

    Just. Fucking. LOL.

    Instead of: "Hey guys NYE was really fun for me, I had a great time in the city with my coworkers and friends, even kissed a few people I liked."

    Its: "BY MY DECREE, CAPITALIST ALIENATION IS A PERSONAL PROBLEM, ITS ALL IN YOUR HEAD BRO JUST GO OUTSIDE."

    Skys the limit for the levels of ridiculous condescension disguised as advice from normie radlibs. Literally like extrapolating: "mentally ill ppl should just think more positively" from a time you were sad and then the weather changed and you became happy. Like good for you bro but fuck off with the sermon.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
      ·
      2 years ago

      It's that Always Sunny bit about putting on a job helmet and getting launched out of a job cannon into JobLand, socialization edition.

      It's abrasive and condescending, and as someone that has enough socialization and outside time to be happy, I can still see that.

      • SuperNovaCouchGuy2 [any]
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        2 years ago

        This persons condescension is ironically a symptom of capitalist alienation, a combination of being so far removed from the real situations and lives of others that you think your ineffectual platitudes are the word of god and not knowing how to sincerely relate to others about having a good experience other than talking at/down to them.

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Speaking of capitalist alienation, I've had plenty of exchanges with that user, and most of them concluded with "touch grass" and related thought terminating cliches, all in defense of some treat or another.

          The framing of the "advice" is structurally sus, too: agreement is presented as synonymous with compliance, with the implication that disagreement is a personal failing.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        but if it gives someone the kick they need then it’s valid

        It might give "the kick" to some but it may further kick down on those that would otherwise be most in need of help. I've encouraged people I've personally known to come out of their shells and it took patience and understanding and tolerance for setbacks, not "tough love" aggression and all its overlap with chuddy "self-help" and "get rich quick" books you'll find at your local copy shop.

        • Yeat [he/him]
          ·
          2 years ago

          you’re definitely right but i don’t think it’s fair to expect patience and all of that out of a simple 3 paragraph post, that comes with forming a personal connection with someone and communicating with them over a long period of time. i also don’t really see how the op is tough love or aggressive or anything like that either, they aren’t looking down on other users for not going out or saying anything bad about them

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            Encouraging people to go out and take risks and be emotionally vulnerable (which is indeed necessary for personal growth because we are social creatures) is a lot easier when the person feels like someone is there to catch them if they metaphorically fall. For that reason, the encouragement works best when it's personal and personalized, or at the very least patient and understanding if it's from someone the person doesn't know too closely.

            By contrast, some internet stranger chanting "touch grass" at them in a smug and condescending way is quite likely to put people that could really benefit from taking those social risks further on the defensive.

            • robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]
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              2 years ago

              Encouraging people to go out and take risks and be emotionally vulnerable (which is indeed necessary for personal growth because we are social creatures) is a lot easier when the person feels like someone is there to catch them if they metaphorically fall. For that reason, the encouragement works best when it’s personal and personalized, or at the very least patient and understanding if it’s from someone the person doesn’t know too closely.

              :chefs-kiss:

      • SuperNovaCouchGuy2 [any]
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        2 years ago

        if you want to be happy in your lifetime the solution has to personal.

        "we all eat from the trashcan" :zizek-ok:

        Sorry it only works if you're lucky. At the end of the day thats not even true because the solution depends on forming meaningful bonds with other people so it cannot categorically be a personal solution* JFL.

        Not a single word beyond that either lmao

        jk you have the same problem as OP, literally good for you that you are feeling better now but fuck off with the condescension. It isn't that the advice isn't valid, its simply that OP's post isn't advice in the first place.

        OP is just an antisocial normie who happened to have a good night out on New Years with his buddy boyos. However, unlike the vast majority of other people who experienced the same, OP decided to make a condescending bragpost about it on the internet because they don't know any other way to share and process their joy other than to use it to talk down to people. Its fucking sad and reeks of soylent.

        • Yeat [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          i’m sorry but you’re being a million times more condescending, rude, and bitter than op and the person you’re responding to. them saying “hey this advice worked for me” is not them being condescending to you jesus fucking christ

          and nowhere in this post was op bragging or talking down, it was obviously encouragement to be more social more than anything. i didn’t have any plans this nye but when i read this i didn’t throw a fit i thought “yeah they’re not wrong there’s some old friends i could probably send a text too” and “i definitely need stay off social media more”and assuming that they went out and partied and calling them “an antisocial normie” just reeks of projection and just being terminally online. i mean this in the most respectful way possible: please log off for a bit and go text some old friends or family or do something not on your phone/computer for an extended period of time.

            • Yeat [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              i’m not pissed at you just thought your comment was embarrassing and a bit over the top, and i do have a good group of friends the fuck are you talking about 😭 these assumptions you’re making about me are just bat shit insane you don’t know me lil bro, that whole thing genuinely might be the most insufferable and incomprehensible thing i’ve ever read, all over someone telling you to “get out” LMFAOOO

              also don’t know why you’re telling me to pick up a dictionary i just literally quoted back what you said to them since you called them antisocial and you keep talking about my comprehension skills when i never said op said the word advice, the guy you were replying to said the word advice jesus christ 😭😭 yes “you need to go out” grammatically speaking is a command but cmon it just isn’t that big of a deal, and the title isn’t “i had a fun time this nye” because the post isn’t about them or a bragpost, it’s telling OTHER people to get out.

              and i can’t believe you’re saying op is bragging when you literally just fucking bragged about what you did for nye and tried to rub it in my face when i said i didn’t do anything and managed to word it in the nerdiest way possible, which is just extremely pathetic you hypocritical dork. it’s not “telling” that i didn’t do anything. i fucking work, something clearly you don’t do since you spend all day crying online. the only one punching down here is you

              i don’t need advice off the internet, just thought op’s post was sweet and obviously not in bad faith and thought everyone getting mad at it (aside from people talking about not having time to or covid that’s valid) was being ridiculous. anyways just got off the phone with an old friend hope you do the same since you seem wayyyy too angry, log out and have a happy new years 👍

              • SuperNovaCouchGuy2 [any]
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                2 years ago

                at the end of the day, I did and you didn't, I never get mad at "muh interwebz" lmao only a select few individuals who use it

            • UlyssesT [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              The person you responded to came out of a multiple day hibernation just to show so much concern on the OP's behalf about how it's "disgusting" for anyone to see that wholesome chungus "advice" as hostile.

              And for what? Sometimes unsolicited "advice" is abrasive and hostile and it isn't the recipient's responsibility to thank abrasive and hostile people for the "advice."

          • Yeat [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            LMAO yup

            everyone in here is basically being like “well if a problem is societal then there’s nothing on a personal level we can do about it!”

            by their logic, hunger is societal issue made worse by capitalism, guess there’s no point in me, an individual, feeding hungry.

            the reaction to this post has made me realize how many users here are just flat out terminally online and out of touch with the real world and it’s kind of disgusting to see after frequenting this community since the r/cth days it’s genuinely upsetting to me

            • SuperNovaCouchGuy2 [any]
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              2 years ago

              everyone in here is basically being like “well if a problem is societal then there’s nothing on a personal level we can do about it!”

              by their logic, hunger is societal issue made worse by capitalism, guess there’s no point in me, an individual, feeding hungry.

              none of what you wrote here is true or makes any fucking sense. The ironic thing is that I have half a mind to log off from this website and never come back again at this point because the chance of meeting asinine neoliberalized fucks like yourself in social contexts outside are orders of magnitude lesser than on the internet, even on sites like this.

              Holy Fujitsu too:

              many users here are just flat out terminally online and out of touch with the real world

              (I have been) frequenting this community since the r/cth days it’s genuinely upsetting to me

            • UlyssesT [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              it’s kind of disgusting

              You previously posted a few times every 5-10 days according to your recent history, and now you only showed up to concern troll in multiple posts, especially here where you are calling other people on Hexbear "disgusting" for not being socially compliant enough to your standards.

              That disgusts me. :sus-soviet:

              • Yeat [he/him]
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                2 years ago

                i had a serious thing typed up in response but after re-reading i feel like you’re joking with me i can’t tell LMAO

                • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                  2 years ago

                  Calling people with ongoing social hangups, people lacking friends or family within easy reach, people with compromised immune systems or other health problems, and people with covid concerns "disgusting" isn't something that I'd joke about.

                  • Yeat [he/him]
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                    2 years ago

                    what? i don’t think those people are disgusting at all and feel for them. what’s disgusting is the hostility in the comments from a community i thought was a lot more friendly than this

                    • Spectre_of_Z_poster [they/them]
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                      2 years ago

                      what’s disgusting is the hostility in the comments from a community i thought was a lot more friendly than this

                      Lmao, this is possibly the least friendly community I’ve ever encountered

                      • Yeat [he/him]
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                        2 years ago

                        well damn that’s unfortunate to hear :/ 90% of my interactions here and at r/cth were just lurking so i never really was that invested but discovering r/cth back in 2018/2019 was how i got into marxism and all that so that just sucks

                    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                      2 years ago

                      what’s disgusting is the hostility in the comments

                      Physician, heal thyself. You were particularly condescending in these comments because the oh so wholesome "touch grass, simple" advice was received unacceptably and you stirred from a several day slumber just to get worked up on their behalf in a totally-not-seeming-like-an-alt way.

                      • Yeat [he/him]
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                        2 years ago

                        “several day slumber” bro i just get on this website for 5-10 minutes like 1-2 days a week and engage here on a normal, casual level 😭 just because i don’t post here constantly doesn’t make me an alt jesus

                          • Yeat [he/him]
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                            2 years ago

                            instant upvoting is crazy, respectfully i think you should log off. you’ve made some good points and i even responded to something else you said in the thread outside of this about something else and agreed with it, but i think a lot of this argument is just simple miscommunication (like you thinking i was calling those people disgusting for being asocial when i wasn’t) but the whole alt, instant upvoting, wrecker, concern trolling shit is just baffling and something an extremely online person’s head would go to which is why i thought you were joking at first

                            • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                              2 years ago

                              crazy

                              Now you're accusing me of mental illness (because mentally ill people are bad, amirite fellow leftists? :sus-soviet: ) because it's weird to see 3 points on your post literally seconds after you posted it, this far into a comment thread, at this time of night, after New Years where I myself only just came back from celebrating a few minutes ago.

                              respectfully

                              :doubt:

                              Are you done concern trolling yet?

                              • Yeat [he/him]
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                                2 years ago

                                responses like this make me feel like you’re doing a bit but it’s driving me crazy because you’re actually making other genuine, well thought out points in other comments

                                and just in case this is fr, no i’m not accusing you of mental illness and no mentally ill people aren’t bad tf? saying a concept (instant upvoting) is crazy doesn’t mean i’m calling you that or saying “crazy” people are bad

                                • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                                  2 years ago

                                  In the context that it was used there, when I pointed out the dubious timing and intentions of that poster, it kind of did seem that way.

                                • Yeat [he/him]
                                  ·
                                  2 years ago

                                  it HAS to be a bit it HAS to be right?

                                • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                                  2 years ago

                                  You know what “crazy” means coloquially right?

                                  It's not used in a non-hostile way, that's for sure. I've seen posts on Hexbear given warnings for ableism for softer stuff than that.

                                  You're also providing an awfully generous reading considering that poster was complaining about hostility to totally wholesome not condescending or abrasive at all to anyone that has any right to feel otherwise kinds of unsolicited advice and how "disgusting" that was.

                                  This isn't what I expected to come back to, but you do you.

                                  • Yeat [he/him]
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                                    2 years ago

                                    i wasn’t using it in a hostile way or actually calling you crazy (i was saying instant upvoting was crazy), i’m sorry if you took it that way

                                    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                                      2 years ago

                                      You're playing the victim after insulting people that didn't take the dubious "advice" well and how "crazy" it is for me to see signs of suspicious and bad faith posting from you.

                                      I'm done with you.

                                      • Yeat [he/him]
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                                        2 years ago

                                        i’m playing the victim for apologizing since you took something i said the wrong way? i’m not a fucking victim i was just trying to be nice to you since you seemed hurt by it and make it clear i wasn’t calling you crazy LMAO

                                        my cover as an undercover chud fbi agent wrecker set on concern trolling people who are mad at someone saying to go outside is blown now though, all thanks to your remarkable detective work. everyone here at the agency is hoping to get you on the db cooper case

                                        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                                          2 years ago

                                          It's kind of telling how you're acting right now while saying it's "disgusting" for anyone to see hostility in the wholesome totally-not-hostile "touch grass" unsolicited advice in the OP.

                                          I already said I was done with you.

                                          • Yeat [he/him]
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                                            2 years ago

                                            i’m just matching your hostility since 1. it’s funny 2. i was engaging you in a nice manner and conceding when i thought you made a good point

                                            also you know you can just stop responding right? 😭 if i keep responding you can just ignore it

                                              • Yeat [he/him]
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                                                2 years ago

                                                upvoting because this actually made me laugh irl 😭

                                                enjoy the new year (genuinely this isn’t sarcasm)

                          • thisismyrealname [he/him]
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                            2 years ago

                            another "alt" here to tell you that your posts have been 100x more abrasive, hostile, and bad-faith than anyone else's in this thread

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      If you thought the not-hostile unsolicited advice in the OP was not hostile, check out the not-hostility of the not-hostile advice defenders in this thread this morning. :lea-why:

  • HoChiMaxh [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    This is good advice. It makes me sad how sad so many Hexbear members are. I wish it wasn't so :fedposting: to ask people here to come hang out my org has a bunch of cool people y'all would like

    • GaveUp [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      You can invite me to hang out. I'll flash you and smoke a joint in front of you to prove I'm not a :fedposting:

  • robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    lol it's winter and all the inside things cost money and will probably give me covid if i manage to dodge all the liberals drunk driving

  • LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    this, here, now, is a facsimile, mediated through a thousand screens. go kiss, go get kissed, go reject a kiss, go be denied a kiss. go out.

    new hope-pilled site greeting. just do it.

  • commenter [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    I got COVID on an airplane is that fucking out enough for you. I can't fucking stand posts like this, I'm alone in NYE because other people couldn't wear a fucking mask while coughing in public. I'm fucking done with 'out', and honestly I'm very happy being alone 99% of the time.

  • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    ok me and the spouse went out and talked to some people today. We both agree it was overrated and we are now enjoying enrichment time in our enclosure. :comfy-cool: :comfy-cool:

    • kristina [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      legit imagining that youre in some like, snake encloser cuddling with a snake