MerchantsOfMisery

MerchantsOfMisery, 1 year ago

For the same reason a lot of people prefer cities over towns.

MerchantsOfMisery, 1 year ago

It’s kind of sad that someone that rich and powerful isn’t immune to the addictive nature of Twitter. Like does he not realize how much of a loser he looks like for being so obsessed with what people online think of him?

MerchantsOfMisery, 2 years ago

What kind of person do you think I am?

A contrarian who would rather play these stupid games instead of helping a comrade out by recognizing a problem they have and giving good advice? You’re not helping here, you’re just enabling poor hygiene because you’re way too preoccupied with playing the devil’s advocate.

You said

Are you doing everything that will better your chances at getting a job or a date?

in response to someone saying

They’re trying to help you learn the things that will help you get a job, or have friends, or go on dates. In short, they’re being a parent. Help them help you.

Notice how you conveniently left out the part about this helping to get a person friends? Instead, you fixated on them being hygienic only for the sake of getting a job or dates. Why did you do that? Surely you understand the importance of hygiene in relation to making/having friends-- something extremely important for one’s mental health?

Stop playing this game. It especially sucks because you’re playing this contrarian game when someone in a bad situation is basically asking for a reality check, but instead of giving them a reality check you’re just entertaining/enabling their incorrect beliefs.

MerchantsOfMisery, 2 years ago

I think you’re better off playing it by ear for the time being, and sort of adjusting the rules accordingly as this space grows.

Personally, I’d really like this place to foster serious discussions more than image/meme posts.

MerchantsOfMisery, 2 years ago

Laying flat is more effective, IMO. For those of us who are BIPOC, I wish I could explain to my white leftist allies just how much more difficult it is for us to get good paying jobs with decent job security.

I think telling largely poor people that the best thing they can do to destroy this system is to embrace it enough until they get a good income.

Personally, I truly believe money to be a drug and that no one is truly immune to the powers of corruption that money holds. I’ve seen far too many good people get corrupted by the power that money offers.

Edit: My brother and I were talking about this thread and he raised a good point. For every dollar you make as a worker, your work contributes to your employer making considerably more money in profit. This is why laying flat or at the very least living a life that requires as little money/reliance as possible is the way to go, I think. It’s like fighting a war where for every bullet you produce, you inadvertently produce 10 more for the enemy and still expect to win the fight.

MerchantsOfMisery, 2 years ago

I’ve considered the trades but part of why I chose to get into research science was because although there’s racism in science, I’ve found it less taxing to manage compared to racism in the trades. Trades i.e. carpentry, welding, etc… is just rife with racism. My brother’s first day on a construction site, some asshole write “this is where [N-words] are born” on the toilet seat of a portapotty. The foreman was furious and called a meeting, but all the white workers seemed to think it was just a hilarious joke and refused to name the guy who did it. Plenty more racist garbage ensued after that too.

Experiences like that… I don’t think I’ve ever experienced something like that in science. My brother thankfully decided to quit the trades after a while and now works in healthcare. Still deals with racism but nothing even remotely close to what he dealt with in the trades.