[–] 3 points 3 days ago (1 child)

Cool. We all agreed it's awful shit. Morally you are correct. I'd like to think you would have more interest in working the root problem and making the thing that upsets you better rather than just making yourself feel better via venting. But yeah. "No quarter no sympathy, hurrah!" or whatever.

Short rant but you see this everywhere. It feels like the root of so many issues and maybe a symptom of an unwillingness to focus and a need to move on to the next outrage. It feels so nice to have something thought-terminating and easy instead of suffering through a resolution-oriented mindset but that just leaves the problem where it is. It's like everyone wants to be just invested enough to be angry but not so invested they have to put any effort or additional thought in.

But why fix the problem when we can just jail it or shoot it right, officer?

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  • [–] 6 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    My point is that it's not a convincing argument. If the point is to vent and just scream agreeable facts at the sky then A+. "What a fuck fucking piece of fucking filth" is refreshing to say but it's not in any way useful unless you genuinely think that OP thinks animal abuse is good and they're being informed. Emotional outbursts to things have never really been valuable additions to conversations. At all. Getting angry will usually just cement people into their particular lane. Nobody is asking for sympathy but if we were trying to assess goals and impact here this has somewhere between negative at worst and zero at best.

    If changing things is your goal then this is the wrong route but otherwise by all means grab your pitchfork?

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  • [–] 11 points 3 days ago (5 children)

    Man this is just about the most tactless way to say this. Jesus christ, if you're this socially maladapted then just stick to saying positive things so at least you don't drive someone to suicide. Goddamn.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Got an amber alert the other day. It linked to twitter to see more info including pics of the victim. I don't have an account and couldn't view it on mobile without jumping through a bunch of hoops. Wonder how much less effective it makes those alerts that you have to have an acct to see who was fucking kidnapped.

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