Seriously, I found my sister (who’s nearly 30) watching a silly video about “feminists doing men’s work”, basically just a hate compilation of tiktoks and a chud yelling at the camera about evil leftists and stuff like that.
How the fuck do you stay happy watching this slop? It’s just constant hateful bullshit, I’m surprised we don’t see more terrorism from this stuff being consumed by millions of people everyday.
I don’t think they do. I think (maybe like us) the stress and cortisol and need to be “informed” becomes a habit. I forget the science but it’s much easier to create a bad vibe than make someone feel good, and playing on fear and anxiety keeps people glued to the news.
Exactly this. I like to say that they are stuck on the lowest rung of the dopamine reward ladder (is cortisol what I should be saying).
They get their jollies from hitting the hate button, and they are addicted to it. They don’t know how to be properly happy.
cortisol is the stress hormone, it does what it do
Hmm I guess that is one explanation. But what do you mean “maybe like us”? Like using Hexbear as a source of slop?
Like using Hexbear as a source of slop?
yup. there’s a wildly different culture but it’s still stressful and toxic to the brain
yer fucked bro yer in the matrix
I never knew how much I wanted a pirate-voice dub if the Matrix until now.
Yeah, although I think this place can be a nice place to feel sane and understood in a world SURROUNDED by neolib shit. I feel like this place used to be more informational though. I haven’t found it so good for keeping up with the machinations of the world as of late.
Also, I am probably addicted to the upbears.
Most of the important world events are discussed in the news mega. I do agree that this place is less informative to some degree though, people very rarely make big posts about theory anymore like they did on chapotraphouse or chapo.chat. I think that’s because most users have been around for a while and we’ve all been through the basic discussions of Marx and Lenin.
It would be a bit like strolling into the Vatican and saying “y’all heard about my man JC?” at this point.
there’s hate-slop here but with legitimate reasons for hate due to seeing the evils in the world for what they are
unlike chuds angry for manufactured agenda reasonsYeah, it’s not that the “is your hatred pure” legitimate or unwarranted, but being in the state of arousal, of being under threat and distressed that it creates, can become “normal” enough that it feels weird when it is absent.
Both parties can be very driven to seek out information that is distressing. Idk about them, but I do it bc i feel a constant need to be aware, to know what’s happening, both bc i feel it might some day help me to change things, and because remaining ignorant feels like abandoning some duty. Whereas they’re seeking out bs about “illegals” doing crimes. But they think they’re being informed about threats they face, and that they need to keep seeking that “information” (fash propaganda) out to be “informed” and protect themselves.
The reasons and goals are quite different, but both groups are exposed to a great deal of stress.
They are addicted to the feeling of power they get when sneering at something/someone. Whenever they say “clown world” they feel like Jim from the Office staring directly at the camera–as if they are in the know, the most informed ones, the superior ones. That plus the comment sections of these videos give them a rush from both them posting and getting likes, and seeing their existing views get articulated by others–that rush of validation is hard to come by IRL.
They aren’t necessarily miserable in the traditional sense, in the first person, as long as they are not directly doing introspection or evaluating how far detached from everyday people they have made themselves. Usually the craving for these feelings of superiority/validation comes from them trying to mute some deeper insecurity and inadequacy they are avoiding facing up to at all costs.
For instance a lot of judgmental puritanical people are also frightened of the possibility that they can’t hang with the cool crowd and cannot make themselves likable in social settings, so adopting the worldview that those who can are actually just “mainstream,” sheep or forbearers of civilizational collapse enables them to cast themselves as righteous/principled for not participating in the worlds that they’d felt excluded by in the first place.
The harm these people are ultimately doing though is what is known as “self esteem debt,” mentally placing themselves on pedestals they did not earn through any real-world action, and having to retreat to ever more demented circles and echo chambers to sustain the feeling of being on the right side of something–leaving their own self development stagnating, letting their insecurities compound rather than be unpacked.
self esteem debt
if I google “self esteem debt” I get “…self esteem. Debt…”
https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2013/05/dove.html
“You can’t see it, but since this is America, the problem here is debt. Not credit card debt, though I suspect that’s substantial too, but self-esteem debt. They’re borrowing against their future accomplishments to feel good about themselves today, hoping they’ll be able to pay it back.”
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I have a weird personal theory about this. Have you ever gotten angry at an imaginary argument? If you stop to analyze your own emotions in that moment, you might find that it surprisingly feels good. There’s a rush to anger, a feeling of power and excitement, and I think some people like to feel that rush, so they consume stuff that makes them angry. Conservative media appeals to this feeling.
Yeah this is
% a factor. Their media even supplies them with an arsenal of nice little workshopped catchphrases they can throw at most common arguments, and that shit fucking works because siding with centuries of deeply-rooted propaganda gives them the veneer of stating obvious truths. They get to win all those arguments more often than not.
They are not happy, and they make it everyone else’s problem.
Spoiler, they don’t, they’re the least happy people you can imagine, while most people keep their sad and angry weirdness to themselves chuds and other reactionaries are leaking it all over the place so they can be seen, so at first glance it looks like a strongman act and a better way of handling irony poisoning, especially to Murikkkans and others that love humor outrage at the cost of others, when really its not much healthier than bottling, if not worse since they harm others aside from harming themselves. They just lack social awareness to see how fool they’re acting and it doesn’t look badass, its like a baby having a tantrum because they were told no. The baby feels no shame for their tantrum.
Some people just need to be bullied more tbh. Stop validating or kid gloving their bs opinions from an early age. One of the worst effects of hyper individualism imo, this pervasive idea that every feeling is valid. People interpret that to mean every feeling is justified
personally, i think they just watch movie headshots and best kills compilations on youtube all day
It is platonic bdsm. Sometimes the hurting is validating.
They’re not happy. But so aren’t most people not consuming this crap either. Humans/animals aren’t meant to be happy constantly, otherwise we wouldn’t strive for more and thus proliferate the species.
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They know deep in their gut who they should be angry at
I’m not so sure about that. I mean sure, you hear them talk about “elites” but it’s always something like, Hollywood actors or something.
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why does it say there’s 24 comments when i can only see 3
Death to America
