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[–] 25 points 9 months ago (6 children)

I'm not sure I'd call it "relaxing," but It's definitely easy mode.

Of course, that's why so many of the losers among us go off the right-wing/incel deep end: if you're living on easy mode and you still manage to fail, you've got nobody to blame but yourself. But they can't handle that either, so they go fucking insane desperately trying to find scapegoats.

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  • [–] 36 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Yeah, the pressure to never show emotion, to always be strong and never ask for help, to try not to show the distress at being inherently distrusted because so many people who happen to share the same kind of chromosomes. Totally easy mode.

    Just because it's less stressful than some other demographics doesn't make it, in any way, easy. Just slightly less difficult.

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  • [–] 27 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I wouldn't even call it less difficult. Just differently difficult.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    Exactly. Different people have different challenges. A woman working in finance in NYC faces many difficulties, but so does man working at a gas station in Albania. It’s not a competition.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago

    Of course, that’s why so many of the losers among us go off the right-wing/incel deep end: if you’re living on easy mode and you still manage to fail, you’ve got nobody to blame but yourself.

    I mean, if you want to think that about those who are suffering, don't be surprised if they latch on to the first con man who feigns compassion. Since you have none.

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