I had to check your profile to figure out what this is all about, and I’m more confused than when I started.

What is your goal with this post? I think you know that the answer is going to be yes, so what’s your point?

Careful there. Going through life with that mindset will prevent you from learning and growing.

Don’t discount any idea until you’ve picked it apart.

Yeah, people are dumb, but if you assume you’re always right, you will be too.

Created by? No. Influenced or inspired by? Absolutely.

Depression cannot create art, but depression (or anger or happiness, or love) will influence your art.

Also, popular and successful doesn’t always mean good. It might just be more relatable, and if the rest of the world is feeling like me, depression is IN right now.

Do you really think this is helping?

Please stop creating click bait posts asking us to go to other sites without context.

Because people live here?

What the hell are you talking about?

I’m just saying the outcomes are better for the person doing the choosing if they engage with the world around them instead of shut it out.

To be clear, I mean removing specific people from your life, not becoming a hermit and only associating with people who are just like you.

I assure you, my outcomes were MUCH better when I removed myself from toxicity.

Your advice sounds like what I would have typed twenty years ago, when I thought I could fix people. Maybe I’ve learned better since then, or maybe I’m just old and jaded now. I do appreciate your optimism, and don’t want to change that in you.

Everybody is different. Some friends can be saved, some can’t. By sharing our own experiences, we give options for OP to consider. There is no “always best” method.

Best of luck to all of you, but also be aware that it’s really easy to catch and spread the plague, especially while trying to cure it.

I won’t argue with what you’re saying, because it’s not wrong, but not everyone is able to nor should become an ambassador for their “group”.

If you’re a timid person who doesn’t like confrontation, you’re probably not going to speak up every time she says something hateful, and you might find yourself laughing along with hurtful jokes when you don’t want to. Especially when it’s an old friend.

Loud, obnoxious, combative people, may seem up to the task, but are more than likely going to piss people off and create a bad association with “the group” for others.

Educating friends to become better allies is great, but, it’s also not everyone’s responsibility. There have been many people in my life, that caused me more pain than joy, and I always just tried to win them over, which only caused me more pain. Within the last few years, I started staying away from those people and it has improved my life in every way.

It’s in Project 3025

I can only do one, and then I have to wait a while.

You’re completely right. I’m just telling you the pitch, I’m not telling you to buy it.

His feet are stuck in a hole in the ground.

I don’t think 6th grade “dating” needs to follow the same rules as adult dating.

I can’t see any good that could come from it.

At the very least, cutting contact will help your mental health, but it also might teach your friend that those jokes hurt, and that her new choices have consequences.

I like the concept of a distinct marker. Because when I’m trying to think of where something is, I try to picture the last place I saw it and the things that were around it. Putting a unique flag at each of the typical “dumping grounds” might help me realize where it is quicker.

I think the idea is that if it’s more expensive to buy things from other countries, then we will buy more American goods, which will help American business owners, and increased demand will create more American factories and jobs.

Of course, if we can’t afford American products now, we’re just losing the only option we can afford, so instead of buying more American stuff, we just buy less of everything. Those companies won’t start building US factories without a increase in sales, so they’ll just start cutting corners, and firing staff to reduce their costs.

That crowd runs on “common sense” which means, if it sounds good without thinking about any of the details, then there’s no reason to stop it.

Are they REALLY in the right place, or does it just seem like the right place at the time?

In hindsight, a lot of the “perfect places” I’ve put things just happened to be convenient at the time. I somehow convince myself that it’s totally reasonable to put my dinner plate under the couch.

🤯 Wolverine must be uncircumcised for this reason alone.

but I’m convincing enough for a non-native English speaker to avoid being associated with the US.

That’s fucking brilliant.