When they say they are Republican. Or touch on Republican talking points promoting hate, sexism, racism, and/or ignorance in general.
Same with people who call themselves centerists, but hate everything slightly left and cheer for everything right wing. Like when the Charlottesville protests happened, and my centerist friend (not friends anymore) was defending people chanting Nazi stuff and attacking the counterprotesters.
In my experience, “centrists” are often just right-wingers who smoke weed.
Heh, that used to be the joke about libertarians, back before half the libertarians turned out to be white-supremacists and joined up with the alt-right, and the other half said “holy shit, the right wing is really bad for actual people’s actual liberty.”
Back in 2008 I thought Ron Paul might be an okay guy … yeah, no, it turned out not only that he was a neoconfederate racist piece of shit, but that libertarian mainstays like Murray Rothbard and Lew Rockwell had been in on it all along.
Quite a lot of what passed for “libertarianism” turned out to be a fraud to get the potheads, Deadheads, perverts, and hackers to join up with the far right. Fuck that.
After Bush II and Trump, there’s no redeeming the Republican Party. It doesn’t even have big-business capitalism or national security on its side anymore. The Bush-era fratboy MBAs hollowed it out and left it to be taken over by the Putinist-Trumpists.
The Democrats are now the party of big business; the Dow is up 17% since Joe Biden took office. The Republicans have become instead the party of hate groups, child-molesters, and thieves — losers who have nothing to offer the nation but rape, murder, and suffering.
When I hear they exclusively use lemmy.world instead of a real instance
Its a real instance, you posted here and we can communicate. Thanks for joining us :)
People who travel in sweat pants and hoodies or “athlileasure” (sp?) cloths on airplanes. Yeah, I get that you want to pretend it’s a big sleepover, but I don’t want to be in a sleepover with you. I’m probably not looking forward to this trip and am already stressed. I just find it to be somehow disrespectful of others, not sure why.
I’m probably the weird one on this peeve, but I have to travel a lot for work. People do this shit on long distance trains too.
Other pet peeve is when someone corrects someone else’s pronunciation of a word in a condescending manner. The person mispronouncing the word probably read it in a book and has just never heard it pronounced in the wild. Making fun of someone trying expand their vocabulary is just petty. There are nice ways to correct them and actually help them they could have used.
I don’t look like I’m wearing a tracksuit, but I often wear loose fitting comfortable clothes when travelling long distances. What’s the issue you have with it? You could do the same and be comfortable, and probably less stressed 😅
I read it as “I’m powerless in the face of what I believe is social convention/work requirements, so as I am unwilling to take the risk of rebelling I dislike those who do rebel”
It’s the same mindset as bitching and moaning against other people participating in demonstrations or strikes.
It’s a passive-aggressive coping mechanism for low self-confidence, IMHO.
So, one of your pet peeves is when someone makes a big deal out of a simple thing that isn’t hurting anyone else, and you’re other pet peeve is a simple thing that doesn’t hurt anyone else which you make a big deal out of.
Claiming everyone’s dressed for a sleepover that you don’t want to be part of is pretty condescending. Just like the person who doesn’t think you are saying a word correctly, you’re the person who doesn’t think anyone is dressed correctly.
Might be time for some introspection.
No hobby or passion.
Some people just seem to work, then come home and watch whatever is shown to them on TV or scroll through their phone. And that’s it, other than socialising, that’s their lives.
Some of us bust our asses at work and don’t have the energy for other shit. Get over yourself. 😑
You don’t have a hobby? No interests at all? Just whatever the world markets to you, you consume?
The fact you’re here in a niche social media site suggests this isn’t true and you have interests outside of working.
I bust my ass too but still have a hobby! Most people are busting their ass 😅
“Have you ever tried not having the problems that make your life difficult? Give it a shot, you might find the change refreshing!”
It’s hard to find passion for things when depression is constantly bearing down upon you. Constantly making you second guess yourself, the things you do, the things you find joy in. Anything that could bring happiness and enrich your life, your mind will sabotage any chance of you trying it out in favor of the lifeless apathy that’s taken a stranglehold over your life.
Not to say I’m constantly mopey woe is me, nawh mate. It’s just hard to find reason to be passionate about anything when your mind is constantly telling you it ain’t worth it.
Not everybody that your comment applies to is depressive, but it’s a common pattern within depressed folks.
If they believe in ghosts
