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• Cantaloupe@lemmy.fedioasis.cc ⁨3⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Yeah I wonder why that is.

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• TwilitSky@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  I wouldn’t call myself woke and I’m not happy. This is NONSENSE!

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• BennyTheExplorer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Honestly, I am pretty happy as a woke person.

  The trick is to watch less news and do more things to actually change anything.

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• killea@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “People incapable of guilt usually do have a good time.”

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• zikzak025@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’d argue there’s nothing normal about being a well-adjusted person in a terminally ill society.

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  • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I would rather be a John Brown in a horrid world than be “sane man” in the same such world and boy am I about to give into my madness and zealotry.

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• TransNeko@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No shit. it’s really depressing seeing all of those filthy pedophiles and nazis getting sexually aroused by dead kids.

  and even more depressing watching 2/3rds of Americans refusing to deal with 80 million terrorists in America.

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• Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Life would be easier if I just believed that I am superior and that my president is good, too bad I have a brain 🙃

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• Armand1@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  As they say, (willfull?) ignorance is bliss.

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  • sompreno@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Wouldn’t say their ignorant, most people know and choose to believe what they believe regardless

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• lengau@midwest.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Breaking: people with empathy affected by other people’s suffering.

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• aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Having empathy in this society run by psychopaths is depressing and anxiety inducing indeed.

  It bleeds into everything in this whole place. You know when you’re using something — a government system, a website, a support line, an application — and it feels like nobody thought about how shitty the experience would be for you? That’s what it feels like to live in a society that has no empathy. The people that design these systems do not give a shit about how you’ll feel being subjected to them, because they have no empathy.

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  • bizarroland@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I am a somewhat empathetic person.

    I was raised in a family of people that had no empathy.

    My grandmother met all of the criteria to be labeled as a sociopath, psychopath, something, and she raised her kids accordingly.

    So when I was a kid, like my little sister would grab my arm and rake her nails down my arm to just grate as much skin off as she could because she was upset over something.

    And I would complain, and I would be told that maybe I shouldn’t have upset her.

    And also being a kid, sometimes I would cry.

    And my grandmother came to me and was like, you’re bigger than her, why don’t you just do something about this? And I said, I do. I cry.

    She thought that was hilarious. She told that story as a joke any time I was brought up for the rest of her life.

    To me, when I see someone else crying because of something I did, that causes me emotional pain because I’m normal.

    So I was attempting to cause emotional pain, not on purpose, but because I was actually hurt, as punishment for the action that my psychopath sister, who was raised by my psychopath mother, who was raised by my psychopath grandmother, had taken.

    But the concept of feeling emotional pain as the consequence of your action choosing to hurt another person is and was so alien to the people in my family that it being explained to them comes across as humor.

    Needless to say, I don’t associate with my family anymore. I have not talked to any person that I am blood related to in four months, and even that was just a quick text.

    People say I’m weird. Okay, I was raised by a very weird family in very weird circumstances, doing my best to be sane and normal in a weird situation.

    It’s very much the same for being woke when opening your eyes to be woke today is like eating lunch in a room full of dead bodies.

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    • aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨37⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      People say I’m weird. Okay, I was raised by a very weird family in very weird circumstances, doing my best to be sane and normal in a weird situation.

      I feel for you. At least some members of my family are either psychopaths, have narcissistic personality disorder, or both. I think the comorbidity there is pretty common.

      The lifelong damage caused by being raised by a pack of wolves is real.

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• KaChilde@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If you aren’t at least a little bit anxious and depressed about the state of the world, you haven’t been paying attention.

  I also refuse to believe that all the racist, misogynist, bigoted snowflakes out there are living anxiety free, considering how quickly they blow up at the sight of a pronoun.

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  • Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, they seem to be more afraid of shit they made up than anybody else.

    Like part of the reason small town conservative types don’t like the ideas of cities is because they’re scared of being mugged.

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• Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Rather be unhappy than live in fear.

  Which is what the asleep people have.

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  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I live in fear of the “asleep” people being in charge.

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• Gerudo@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My woke ass actually feels empathy for others, so of course I am depressed watching them get disappeared.

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• ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yes, it has to be quite nice and comforting to be stupid. I can only imagine…

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• AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s probably 300 times harder to be depressed and anxious when you are braindead, so this tracks.

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• Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fucking accurate.

  The only time I’ve seen racists sad is when Trump didn’t kill enough immigrants fast enough.

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  • Gates9@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They put ICE in the airports, they’re sending them to polling places, they bought the voting machines. Soon there will be a critical mass of people who have nothing left to lose: a Constitutional crisis and a confrontation between the civilian population and the fascist regime is imminent.

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  • chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I haven’t listened to Knowledge Fight for a while because I’m watching my own mental health a bit, but ol AJ has never sounded actually happy for more than an episode or two. Hatred like they have sounds like they sleep well, but they’re fucking miserable too. J.K. Rowling could shut up and just enjoy being rich, but she still has to find someone to hate and hurt. You wouldn’t really hear about a happy person.

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• N0t_5ure@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  To paraphrase George Bernard Shaw, the fact that a MAGA racist is happier than a woke person is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.

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• daggermoon@piefed.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Depressive realism

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  • Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My favorite

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• Linken@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I couldn’t take current events anymore and now I’m in therapy haha long overdue really.

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• GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So the less you care the less you stress? Makes sense.

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• joyjoy@lemmy.zip ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I too am happiest when I’m asleep.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Username…relevant? I guess? This post makes me sad…

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Username relevant? That’s what happens when you don’t sleep/stay awake/confront the horrors.

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• ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You might come to that conclusion: if you associate wokeness with empathy then it makes sense to think that such people are emotionally influenced by all the shit in the world and therefor must feel worse than those who don’t have such a burden. All other things being equal, that would probably be true; but it overlooks the fact that the proudly antiwoke are fucking miserable.

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• TootSweet@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Source?

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  • Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You

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  • cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    nypost.com/…/woke-people-more-likely-to-be-unahpp…

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    • Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Ah yes. Prime them with loaded questions then ask them happiness in a scale

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    • TootSweet@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ah. NY Post.

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• BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You have to be racist to be happy! Obviously

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• lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m not sure to which extend this is true but this might be correlation. I guess MAGA people are more often privileged while marginalized people are more often woke and due to their marginalization they are depressed

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• SolidShake@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Idk I feel pretty fine not giving a fuck what other people do

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