Don’t really know what to say… The internal policies were bound to catch up to the external ones.

I mean, work life and home life often end up mixing together even for the most professional of individuals, let alone for the current US administration that loves to shit where it eats.

Burn down lake Tahoe then.

Hold up. I just skimmed an article yesterday saying the Supreme Court gave the go ahead for the deportation of 250000 Venezuelans.

Can anyone clarify what’s what?

Dunno current status, but a few years back Croatia was a popular place to visit. I don’t have the details, but it was recommended to me at the time by multiple parties of the reasonable cost range.

As other comments have said, “Altruism is the concern for the well-being of others, independently of personal benefit or reciprocity.” To be true to the definition, one wouldn’t seek worth from altruistic actions. If one did however, that’s called being a calculating person.

Anyway, altruism rarely is seen positively in the real world because there’s no worth to be found beyond the deed itself.

That happens because it’s a social act. People who don’t want to, but have to due to some sort of obligation or as an indirect action towards achieving something else.

Activism is a chore they have to do, so without people in charge sincere in what they do and aware of this type of obligation, any attempt at serious activism will end up half-baked and likely to do more harm than good.

It’s tough to find people who do something for the sake of it and not as a springboard meant to pursue other interests.

Your brain be wildin’. I suggest seeking professional help if it ever happens a second time in a short period of time. Small chance it might be an early symptom of a stroke or dementia.

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Great speech, really, but why aren’t you getting it? It’s not about you or me or the commenter i started the chain with. This was their comment:

… do people actually do that? As in, is strong jealousy really a thing?

I’d like to believe that each of us builds their life into the exact thing they need, so swapping places with anyone else would be terribly uncomfortable. So I can’t relate as to why anyone would ever be jealous i guess haha

Are you and all the people up voting that comment really unable to grasp that there are people who actually do that? That strong jealousy really is a thing?

You kept deviating with your own sad stories, hope and self-control and get out from the bad environment.

But this is about them, the people that get left behind, that don’t crawl out and escape, that don’t get to build their lives into the exact thing they need. So that swapping places with literally anyone else would be fucking awesome to them.

That’s why I said you’re sitting on a high horse, you can’t seem to relate to them.

God job on making it out though. Though they might have moments of jealousy, I’m sure most of the people that couldn’t do the same are proud and thankful you can be an example to them. (Not sarcasm, if you’re interpreting that way. You only saw those earlier examples and seemed deadset on them being the only kind there is.)

You don’t seem to understand. There is no country on this planet that doesn’t have at least one abnormal living environment within. And the people living in such types of environment don’t have the luxury of entertaining your kind of psychological snobbism/elitism.

You talk of ideals, not reality. From the role of an observer, not a participant. Your advice is superficial nonsense from a position of safety and comfort.

I mean, what planet have you been living on until now?

An average person doesn’t mechanically compartmentalize emotions and puts them aside because they aren’t “productive solutions”.

It’s good for you that you’ve managed this kind of selfcontrol in order to improve your life. But that’s because you’ve numbed down the things that do you harm.

A person that isn’t depressed doesn’t have that kind of ‘benefit’. Emotions run freely and wild without fear. And cause all kinds of trouble.

Lovers being jealous of outside attention to the point of madness.

Siblings being jealous of biased parental love to end up estranged.

Children in patched up clothes on the streets begging or on the fields working - being jealous of children dressed in brand new school uniforms and going to school together.

Any person in a hospital bed with a terminal illness watching through the window the world living a life they can’t have.

And so many other examples…

Productive solutions don’t mean shit when it comes to strong emotions and jealousy can be very strong at times. Strong enough to murder even. I mean forget about the world-ending news regurgitation, at the local level where the average person lives, jealousy is high up in ranking as a reason for commiting crimes.

Pardon me, but you sound very privileged here, in the spiritual sense of “stop being poor” or “just don’t be depressed” etc.

If that was your intention, you’ve succeeded admirably.

Thank you for caring.

The bar is a narrow surface, which means stepping on it would be to pursue balance at the risk of failure. The longer one stands on it, the greater the exhaustion and the higher the chance of falling down. Though one will fall down eventually, it’s still an exercise that trains and strengthens mind and body.

Pretentiousness is a part of communication. Because people pretend all the time, whether it’s with others or themselves. It’s a facet we all share in some way. Why deny it? I am who I am and you are who you are. Yet you expect me to change because it doesn’t conform your expectations or something? Well, tough.

Thanks.

You might not get it the second time either, but that’s ok. It’s just some comments thought up on the fly, not a thesis that needs defending.

It’s a life goal.

That’s completely fine. No need for anyone to understand every comment made.

If you’re curious, i will attempt to explain. If you’re not, stop reading here. I have yet to fully forget where I was going with this. Tomorrow would have been different.

Let’s take it from the end “biggest asshole in the room 24x7”.

So the planet is akin to one bit room we all have to share. It has limited resources and so not everyone can be accommodated. Conflict of interest happen all the time where two or more groups need a consumable resource that has an insufficient quantity to satisfy everyone’s needs. At that point, a choice will be made on who gets to consume those resources and regardless of fairness, those that are left out will feel resentful. Those that have to make that choice or gain those resources will be assholes to the victims that are left out. Can’t prevent that.

So there will always be an “asshole in the room”. And as long as there is at least one, then having a “biggest asshole in the room” is also unavoidable.

We’ll keep the “24/7” for later. Now we move to the front of the comment, “treat maga with compassion”.

Regardless of maga or another group, there’s a conflict of interest at every level of society. You can’t escape it as long as two different entities compete for the same thing. As emotional creatures, resentment will without a doubt influence us in thought and action. Anyone saying otherwise is blind to their own emotional state.

So the “biggest asshole in the room 24x7” draws away attention from all the other “assholes in the room”. But all the other assholes aren’t just the big ones, it’s everyone that has to choose who gets something and who gets nothing. Every manager at every level in every aspect of society is an asshole to those who aren’t given what they need even though they’re just handling the limited resources made available to them.

There will always be a “biggest asshole in the room”, no matter how small an asshole they may be, if at all, because as long as someone is in the room, they’re the “biggest asshole” by default.

That’s why maga should be treated with compassion. They unwittingly sacrifice themselves or are intentionally sacrificed and attract the greatest ire, allowing all others to escape the same level of reprisal, earned or not.

Yes, they’re dumb, they’re being used, leopards ate their face. But that’s life. They don’t have an exclusive monopoly on this. It happens with or without them. So why not have some compassion and pity? They don’t seem to have any for others. Yet why do some seem desperate to emulate that sort of behaviour? I thought that’s what people hated about them in the first place?

Unless I misunderstood the comment and this was actually about replacing them… In which case, I apologize.

Eh, it’s fine. Were mutual understanding that easy to achieve, the world wouldn’t be what it is today.

In this limited resources kind of world we live in, tough choices have to be made from time to time. And those that are obligated to make those kind of choices bear the burden of that which has to be sacrificed. Due to this, they will be assholes to the victims that unavoidably suffer.

However, if groups like maga are even bigger assholes for no real reason, those who bear the burden won’t be as ostracized. It is for this reason that we should be compassionate.

At the end of the day, someone has to be the biggest asshole in the room and they unwittingly offer themselves for the role…

Hmm… Quality.