z3rOR0ne

joined 3 years ago
[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

I'm a negative person. IRL and online. In certain circles I'm considered very positive. Usually I'm faking niceties for convenience or other reasons, but other times I do actually think of the current situation or subject matter positively. This latter situation is somewhat rare though.

Here on Lemmy, I have my share of haters, mainly because I'm an agnostic, antinatalist, anarchist, antifascist. I can also get pretty misanthropic at times, and while I can indeed shut the fuck up, I sometimes don't, and I can go oooonnnnn, sometimes pissing people off for my lack of brevity and conciseness, like with this very post.

Generally speaking, I think being negative often lines up with the reality we live in. Sure there are small things to be positive about, but overall the situation for humanity as a whole is currently pretty bleak, and a lot of the control mechanisms by which positive change can be enacted is in the hands of a select few of the rich and powerful.

The reason people post and oftentimes like negative posts, comments, discourse, etc. is because it validates and confirms their negative perspectives that oftentimes would cause them to be ostracized if they expressed them in other circles. I know that's why I express many of my more controversial opinions here, and why I like to read various posts here on Lemmy daily. Most people here keep it real. And reality isn't pretty right now, but at least I know I'm not the only one who sees it that way.

[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, Stoop Kid is a minor character from the late 90s, early 00s Nickelodeon show, Hey Arnold.

https://heyarnold.fandom.com/wiki/Stoop_Kid_(character)

[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Weird is really too kind of a term, but I guess being called Nazis for so long made them kind of proud to be Nazis? Or at least made them feel threatening rather than hilariously incompetent and ridiculous? I don't know, at this point whatever they can be called that will get under their skin and reveal them to be the incompetent moronic fascists they are, the better.

[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nice. Thank you. For those who don't click the link, it appears you can disable by setting these flags:

browser.shopping.experience2023.active

and:

browser.shopping.experience2023.survey.enabled

To false.

EDIT: On finally getting back to my desktop and disabling these, it looks like there's a bunch of these browser.shopping.experience2023 flags. Some of them set to true, others false, I just set them all to false.

[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Please tell me there's an about:config setting to turn this bs off.

[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When he dies, I'd like the address of his grave please...I am getting a premonition of me having explosive diarrhea, and I'd like to know the address of the perfect toilet.

[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

In another Lemmy post highlighting an article where Pete Buttigieg says America is ready for a gay man to be Vice President, I made this comment:

Still waiting for Americans to be ready for a Trans Atheist Single Childless Woman of Color President.

Obviously, this statement is, at least somewhat, hyperbole, but I made that statement to point out that I'm waiting for us all to grow the fuck up. Until we are able to accept and nurture a society that would willingly elect a Trans Atheist Single Childless Woman of Color as President of the United States Of America, based off of what they can contribute back to humanity as a whole (or, at the very least, I guess the nation state of the USA), then we truly are more akin to a bunch of high schoolers playing a popularity contest for who gets the nuclear access codes than adults participating in a mature and healthy electoral process.

[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Better than nothing, but man am I gonna miss that impeccable voice acting, smooth animation, and brilliant writing. I'm still grieving this show's cancelation. It deserved 6 seasons and a movie.

[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It could always be worse.

[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm far more concerned about the rise of Nazism and Monarchism in the USA. Even if we never have a Republican in any governing office again and the country continues to move further and further left, America has a lot of work to do to ensure these forms of tyrrany are never even considered as a viable alternative to Democracy.

The fact that these forms of governance survive in the hearts and minds of people is an indicator of a larger and more complex societal failing that spans the entire history of America. This is not some strange short term flash in the pan of Nazism and Authoritarianism, it is an insidious and vile tradition passed down from generation to generation, and we have only staunched it's slow cancerous growth by publicly shaming those who voice these views publicly. Obviously this has proven ineffective.

I think a more important question than whether one particularly sad excuse for a sad sack of shit may run for president again, is how do we make sure the Trump dynasty, and all dynasties, fade into obscurity until the last remnants of their legacy is a footnote that indicates we lived in a time period when humans, due to many generations of hoisting up those with the most lust for power into positions of power, nearly destroyed themselves. How do we make that happen?

[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Still waiting for Americans to be ready for a Trans Atheist Single Childless Woman of Color President.

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