• I am rethinking my priorities, always. You could read some of my other comments and see that I was having a bad day. But I’ll you what: I don’t take kindly to fake pathos.

    It’s in effect just being condescending, and that’s just throwing more gasoline on the fire. I’ve seen it used a lot lately. Like beginning a sentence with “u good?” and then just dismissing points or ideas that was the intent.

    It’s particularly nefarious here on Lemmy, because people go into two paragraphs with fake pathos and it is honestly infuriating.

    “You’ll catch more bees with honey” rings true, but please don’t think people are stupid.

    As it stands there’s not a single rebuttal to what I see as a severe political issue. It’s not just derisive, but it helps nothing.

    People might just retreat deeper into their holes, and if that was the intent, that’s what I call bad faith. In effect that helps no one.

    So please don’t play armchair psychiatrist. You have your vices too. We all crave some form of validation. Being ignorant of that means you probably need to recheck your priorities.