▲ 537 ▼ I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw (www.theguardian.com) submitted 2 years ago by Five@slrpnk.net to c/usa@midwest.social 46 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 30 points 2 years ago (2 children) I mean, cool people don’t act that way. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 years ago (4 children) I dunno, the cool kids at my school were mean little bitches permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 18 points 2 years ago Popular =/= cool. permalink fedilink source parent [–] samus12345@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago Those were actually cruel kids. Common mistake. permalink fedilink source parent [–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago That's not very cool of them permalink fedilink source parent [–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago The cool kids at my school were actually generally pretty nice. A lot of us nerds had chips on our shoulders, but the reality is that as a weirdo loser, I was picked on by weirdo lovers and the popular kids were nicer to me than I was to them. I don't think they were all good people, given our school's socioeconomic and racial demographics and the fact that it was a catholic school, I strongly suspect that some may have just appalling beliefs on some topics, but even when I ran into one years later she was nice and open minded. Idk anyone else's experience and I graduated in the early 10s and I know we were a weird generation in that regard. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago* Cool and Good aren't the same thing. Some of the best people I've ever met were pretty low key and definitelly weren't overly concerned with presenting an appealing image to others. What's percieved as coolness usually is just dressing the part and acting the part and in my experience "cool people" are often people who just take the whole maintaining a public persona thing to quite extreme levels, pretty much playing a role as if life was a Theatre play. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 years ago (4 children) I dunno, the cool kids at my school were mean little bitches permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 18 points 2 years ago Popular =/= cool. permalink fedilink source parent [–] samus12345@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago Those were actually cruel kids. Common mistake. permalink fedilink source parent [–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago That's not very cool of them permalink fedilink source parent [–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago The cool kids at my school were actually generally pretty nice. A lot of us nerds had chips on our shoulders, but the reality is that as a weirdo loser, I was picked on by weirdo lovers and the popular kids were nicer to me than I was to them. I don't think they were all good people, given our school's socioeconomic and racial demographics and the fact that it was a catholic school, I strongly suspect that some may have just appalling beliefs on some topics, but even when I ran into one years later she was nice and open minded. Idk anyone else's experience and I graduated in the early 10s and I know we were a weird generation in that regard. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago Those were actually cruel kids. Common mistake. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago That's not very cool of them permalink fedilink source parent
[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago The cool kids at my school were actually generally pretty nice. A lot of us nerds had chips on our shoulders, but the reality is that as a weirdo loser, I was picked on by weirdo lovers and the popular kids were nicer to me than I was to them. I don't think they were all good people, given our school's socioeconomic and racial demographics and the fact that it was a catholic school, I strongly suspect that some may have just appalling beliefs on some topics, but even when I ran into one years later she was nice and open minded. Idk anyone else's experience and I graduated in the early 10s and I know we were a weird generation in that regard. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago* Cool and Good aren't the same thing. Some of the best people I've ever met were pretty low key and definitelly weren't overly concerned with presenting an appealing image to others. What's percieved as coolness usually is just dressing the part and acting the part and in my experience "cool people" are often people who just take the whole maintaining a public persona thing to quite extreme levels, pretty much playing a role as if life was a Theatre play. permalink fedilink source parent