it’s only trolling to you because you’re 100% wrong. look at the deaf community, plenty of other disable communities would rather not be disabled, and often do have the choice but choose to remain disabled. because it doesn’t mean their life is ‘less than’, like you imply. hell plenty of disable people live fully richer lives than ‘abled’ people, because well, they choose too. plenty of overweight abled people who can’t walk a half mile vs people who don’t even have legs who can do marathon.

yeah, the overweight fat people who can’t walk a mile also think they ‘aren’t fully in control’ of themselves too.

cool, i don’t believe that at all. sounds like a convenient fiction to me. to me the ‘mind/soul can exist without the body’ is just ego-projection.

we’re meatbags. nothing is separable. everything is embodied.

do you know any disabled people? plenty of them get wheelchairs and such and live great lives. it’s their choice to be defined by the disability or not.

discord is a corporation that is acting like a corporation. it’s demographics are also heavily under 18, so they are legally required do a lot of shit to ‘protect the children’ from themselves.

being in charge of your mind is entirely your choice.

pretending that it can’t be, is an excuse to just not take responsibility for it.

a lot of folks, refuse to take responsibility, actively. either for their minds or their bodies, and actively refuse treatment from their medical providers. but that’s their choice even if they deny that it is a choice.

the problem is a lot of bad actors use their mental illness or physical illness as an excuse to be self-destructive.

it’s deeper than that. the people who insist on this are… people who want to obfuscate the problems. because the reality of them are too harsh for them to emotionally accept.

The truth is there are legit homeless people… people who actively refuse shelters and social services and prefer to live on the streets, many of whom are criminal and can’t be in the shelters because they want to use drugs, abuse people, and steal shit… but the acknowledgement of this is not possible for people who insist ‘no they are just not getting enough help/stigmatized’. these are the types of folk who think everyone is inherently good and wonderful and it’s the evil bad world that made them bad people…

Most homeless folks are only temporarily homeless and most are like living out of a car or other temporary situation.

But those folks can’t acknowledge any complexity of any issue. because it terrifies them that other people are different than them… or exist outside of the limits of their small imaginations… so they want to shrink the world to fit into their comfortable headspace with euphemisms. and they want to naively believe that all problems are just because ‘other people are mean’ or something that’s kindergarten level way of looking at the world.

And you’ll notice the people who push these agendas… often come from wealthy privledged backgrounds… part of their whole shtick is using euphemisms so they don’t have to feel guilty about their own privileges… privileges which they are actively hostile to in other people but refuse to acknowledge in themselves. they will go so far to claim not being homeless makes you ‘privledged’ but won’t acknowledge that they live in a condo their parents bought for them, while you rent with 2 roommates, etc.

If you ask me it’s just a product of very sheltered people who are basically ‘allergic’ to reality because they never had to deal with it, like these folks never lived in a place where homelessness was a problem, so they can’t understand how it is a problem for anyone else, and if you got robbed/assaulted by a homeless person, you deserved it or something. And if you grew up in a town with problems like homeless and drug use where everyday things… you are basically evil and awful in these people’s eyes.

I grew up in a diverse town with a poverty rate of 15%. I had friends in grammar school who were sometimes homeless. I meet people now who grew up in towns with 3-4% poverty rates… which are mostly just old folks on social security.

all I know is every ‘safespace’ is a space full of bullies who feel they need the world to conform to their beliefs and hatreds where diversity of ideas and opinion are forbidden.

the issue is people confuse safety with control.

i have no idea what a ‘comfortable space’ is. I guess a space where you don’t feel like you are walking on eggshells? i guess that would be a place where people are grown up and mature enough to chill out.

i don’t use discord or most anything social media. i don’t live on the internet or communicate with people via it very much. i mostly make phone calls and interact with people in person.

They can’t.

Also stopping funding… you mean stopping weapons sales? Good luck with that.

Yeah I’m sure inner harmony should be the priority for people who are dying from starvation or killed by violence.

Basically be anti-Netanyahu but pro Israeli

your words have no meaning, that’s the problem.

cool. i’ve had nothing but stability and stellar benefits.

but when i mention this people always say the paycheck isn’t enough and tell me how much more i could be making if i was working for a corporation.

pee in the trash

a larger car was not going to save you from being hurt while you were t boned.

that’s the myth they use to sell larger cars.

often smaller cars have better crash ratings, but whatever man, keep whining about car prices while you pay for 2-3x the car you need.

so basically, you refuse to define the term…

everything you said is relative.

cool. i’ve worked for small business my entire life had nothing but great benefits and great experiences.

the only major difference is lower pay than you’d get in corporate america, and most people I meet cannot look past that and cite that as the reason they could never work for one. my total compensation is actually on par or better than most corporate jobs.

and everyone i know who works corporate works 60+hr weeks and is miserable and never uses their ‘unlimited PTO’.

Dating and relationships.

Used to be something I put a lot of effort into and it was kinda fun, now not fun anymore so there is no point in putting effort in.

go find a really boring unglamorous job.

it will be stable.

the problem is people don’tw ant stable jobs that are boring. they want glamorous jobs with high salaries and from big name companies… and wonder why they can’t get those, but they won’t work for a small business because they ‘don’t pay enough’.

Define ‘basic respect’.

Because it’s going to vary a lot depending on people’s preferences, backgrounds, and etc.

Personally I don’t see LGBT+ people as monolithic in anything… they are just people. They all have their own biases, hatreds, preferences, etc. And plenty of LGBT+ people hate other LGBT+ people for stupid reasons. I find the concept of LGBT+ as some sort of ‘bloc’ utterly weird, and if you look at like data about it, it isn’t really a unified group in anyway.

I’ve never seen many commonalities in belief or behaviour of LGBT+ people. If you break it down further, yeah, sure, there are.

there are tons of compact suvs and sedans at that price point. almost every major brand makes them.

the issue is people don’t want them because they are ‘too small’ or ‘don’t feel safe’. they would rather pay 50K for a big ass car and whine about it then buy one that’s half the cost and 2/3 of the size. And almost all of them are just commuting to work in it, they will never ever use the extra space or capacity of the larger vehicle. and if you argue with them and point this out, they will tell you what a stupid ignorant asshole you are and how they ‘need’ a 50K car, and they couldn’t possibly ever buy a shitty small car like a Civic. And most of them will go further be like ‘well i can only afford the 50K car, but I REALLY WANT the 80K car.’ Tons of people buy these 80K 3-row SUVs and whine about how expensive they are, when they absolutely positively have no actual need for a vehicle that large. but psychologically they need it because it’s a status symbol and reflection of their ‘pride and value’ of themselves.

you can get a brand new HRV or Civic for 24-26K, but people refuse to buy those cars, they want the Passport which is 45K to start.

fwiw i drive a 10 year old hatchback and people endless tell me shit like ‘you have no self-respect if you drive such a shitty small car’. and i ask them what car I should get then, and they always say ‘audi/bmw 5/7 series SUV’. Because it’s not about the utility or use, it’s all about the fragile image they are protecting by owning a large expensive vehicle.

because federation is slow