Things I've noticed happen in the general vicinity of my posts:
- Fundie nutjobs reduced to curling up in a little ball, plugging their ears, and spewing either contentless religious copypasta (Freeman) or barely-coherent amateur apologia (Bot).
- The Shitey Uzzard degenerating into mudslinging and pretending (badly) not to care when defeated in arguments...every single one of them.
- Insecure manchildren accusing me of being a transsexual (some random AC) on one hand, and on the other, an actual transwoman accusing me of being a TERF (Kurenai).
- Creeps like VLM, KHallow, JMorris, Entropy, and all their kind simply giving the hell up and abandoning ship when faced with a proper down-smacking for their fallacious sociopathy.
When you have people on the fringes everywhere angry with you, each of them accusing you of the precise opposite on the spectrum they hate, you must be doing something right. In all my time here, I've never gone in for trolling, deception, or shitposting. I've always stood for what's right, and took the fight to those who would try to spread their noetic poisons, fighting it everywhere it appears for the sake of anyone unfortunate enough to encounter it, knowing full well the originators of such poison are by their own choice irredeemable, certainly so in this lifetime.
And my approach drives them nuttier than squirrel vomit.
Well boo fucking hoo. When someone on here tells me I'm bitchy or angry, I just laugh, because what they really mean is "you're making me uncomfortable by exposing my bullshit in such direct, uncompromising, profanity-laced ways." It's pretty obvious the accusations of being a transsexual come from sheltered, misogynist little manchildren who can't handle actual women speaking the plain, unvarnished truth to them, because they have so little truck with the opposite sex they've never seen it in the real world before. No, this insult to their manly honor cannot stand! ONLY another man could POSSIBLY have the balls, literal balls, to stand up to them! (And of course the kind of person who'd make this argument lumps MtFs under the heading of "man." I don't, though I do draw an important distinction between transwomen and cisgender women because, frankly, they are never going to know what it is to have a period or risk being pregnant).
Time to put on your big-boy undies and join the adult world! The toughest people I know are all women, including my own mother and some of the nurses at work. I'm a marshmallow compared to them.
And I don't regret anything, as painful as it's been sometimes. Am I a "nice girl?" No, and haven't been for several years, and you know what? It's better this way. "Nice girls" get used and taken advantage of and thrown away and never have their needs met. "Nice girls" are the permanent victims of tone trolling by people too frightened or too weak to deal with them as the full human beings they are. In this place, at this time, as this site sinks further and further into RWNJ decay, all it means is I'll fight all the harder.
What I hope this does is encourage the people on here who still seek the light to defend it. Hit back. We're seeing on a number of scales, from the President's capitulation on his stupid bullshit shutdown right down to the examples at the head of this post, that the sociopaths are like any bully: weak, cowardly, amoral types who don't expect and can't handle sustained, principled pushback. Part of it is that evil simply can't comprehend good, but mostly it comes down to how bullies work and have always worked. Anyone who wants to join me in fighting the good fight, please do: we've seen that it works.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 29 2019, @10:11PM
I've been homeless and I've seen all kinds of crazy shit in the military.
I think you sound like someone who lies about trauma for attention.
I would normally be polite and keep this sort of gut feeling to myself but since you're going to say that Runaway acts sheltered for someone of his background. I'll tell you that he doesn't act that way at all.
It's extremely common for veterans with PTSD to struggle with empathy for first world problems after returning to civilian life. Runaway acts like other veterans that I encounter.
When someone tells me I'm supposed to feel sad because they sleep outside and for that reason I should give them money. I can remember weeks of my life where the best thing that would happen is I would get a chance to lie down on the floor and sleep for a little while. 40 minutes? A few hours? Where I would have fantasies of lying in bed with a beautiful woman, eventually my fantasies would be throwing her out of bed and going to sleep for an entire night. Then you pile on danger and mind numbing pointless busywork, uniform inspections.
It will take more than stories about being cold or hungry or tired before I feel bad about anything. For my first year out I was so at home with discomfort that I always stood at my desk and I didn't run heat in my house for at least two winters because it seemed like a weak willed waste of money.
Also it's taken me nearly a decade to feel comfortable being soft. If I had a cold or a broken bone or stitches you could expect I was probably going to work out and go to work like nothing is wrong. This is normal in the mind of a vet, not a particularly healthy way to live your life but at least it gives one the sense to avoid walking piles of first world problems.
I would think you'd have recognized his behavior and attitudes seeing as how you deal with so many traumatized people