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[-] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 112 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Remember:

"4chan is where actually intelligent people pretend to be stupid morons, and Reddit is where actually stupid morons pretend to be intelligent."

[-] Hobo@lemmy.world 145 points 9 months ago

The only people that believe that crap are 4channers dumb enough to believe that being an amoral asshole makes you smart. The reddit thing is true though.

[-] gullible@kbin.social 28 points 9 months ago

Shut up and let me quote crime statistics at you.

[-] dalekcaan@lemm.ee 15 points 9 months ago

Just the n-word over and over again

-An intellectual on 4-chan

[-] roscoe@startrek.website 6 points 9 months ago

Shit. You just made me realize that since I left reddit I haven't seen a single "despite..." comment. Thinking about how much casual bigotry like that I'm avoiding every day puts a smile on my face.

[-] TheEntity@kbin.social 56 points 9 months ago

Maybe a few decades ago. Right now 4chan is an actual cesspool, not a fake one anymore.

[-] Baines@lemmy.world 25 points 9 months ago

it’s been a cesspool since 2003

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[-] SchizoDenji@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago

When has 4chan been not a cesspool? Its just that once a decade they decide to weaponise their autism and do something massive.

[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

Damn double whammy I feel personally attacked

[-] LittleBorat2@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago

You could stay away from moron subreddits pretty easily but maybe moron interests and your interests match.

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[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 59 points 9 months ago

>Be me

>A third-worlder

>Read about issues in lives of internet stranges

>first_world_problems.exe

> mfw

I don't know what I expected. People stuff themselves in trucks and boats to come to your countries in search of a better life. Have some perspective.

[-] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 41 points 9 months ago

If people don't have problems they invent them.

Feel fortunate everyday I happened to be given the circumstances I was. Could have been born in Russia and be dying in the cold while my death is televised to electronic music.

Perspective, and getting out of your own ass, are quite useful lol.

[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The sad thing is that most who do make such travel to the first world wont be able to find a better life here at all.

Its a misperception created by the economic propaganda politicians use to make themselves look good, sure in theory there is more wealth around but ask the many starving homeless how much of that end up benefitting them.

Not far from my job is an official place where people can request asylum. Over 50% who have the legal right are refused. The paperwork is so idiotic that the state is spending extra money so they can fine themselves but also refusing to pay those fines. In the mean time people dying in the park across the street is a regular occurrence.

The first world is mentally ill. Its a soulless controlled system designed to minimize time spend with people you trust and care about, maximize time spend creating value for the gdp counter. Trying to help people in public can end up in them acting hostile to you.

We mix up happiness with paying for stuff we don't need, mix up sustainable healthy lives with having enough money saved to hypothetically pay a emergency hospital bill.

Half my friends have seen the inside of a psych ward, a third has made plans to leave to start a new hermit live off the grid. Some have successfully decided to cut their lives short in order to escape.

I assume all first world countries will be a little different, but in most your chances will depend on your socio economic circles like how rich your parents are, wether your grandparents still own a home to pass down to you. But if you come here with nothing but a bag on your back.. often criminals will recruite/exploit and reduce them to a slave, alternatively they starvd/ freeze dead in winter or murder/rape each other out of desperation

Tldr: grass looks greener on the other side, its not, It just has different weeds.

[-] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 51 points 9 months ago

Whether or not the perspective given here is valid, it's inarguably really low-empathy

[-] occhionaut@lemmy.world 25 points 9 months ago

yeah this dude is kinda exemplifying 4chan

[-] ADonkeyBrainedFog 24 points 9 months ago

"You don't have it any better. You don't have it any worse. We are each our own irreplaceable, human soul with our own understanding of what it means to suffer. And that's a huuuuuuuuuuge bummerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr"

[-] BreadOven@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Not everyday you see some AJJs lyrics.

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 20 points 9 months ago

What's "strooglers"?

[-] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 20 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The overall point aside, people don't take Adderall because they want a kick, they take it because they need it to be functional. I'd say that you have to be either ignorant or an asshole to call someone a druggie for regularly taking Adderall, but you know, 4chan, ignorant, asshole, redundancy, yadda yadda.

Edit: Jumping to the conclusion that people take Adderall because they want to get high feeds the stigma that people with ADHD are just drug abusers, which is a core reason why people with ADHD have so much trouble accessing their medication. If someone wants to get high, there's little reason to go for Adderall rather than drugs actually designed to get you high.

[-] null@slrpnk.net 23 points 9 months ago

What? People absolutely abuse Adderall to get high...

[-] sanpedropeddler@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 months ago

They do, but the point is that you shouldn't assume that's the case simply because someone takes adderal. The vast majority of the time, they take it as directed to treat their ADHD.

[-] null@slrpnk.net 8 points 9 months ago

Brad from the post doesn't read that way

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[-] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago

There's definitely people who don't have ADHD that take Adderall.

Which group that guy belongs to is up in the air though.

[-] quams69@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Lmfao this is so naive it's incredible

[-] candle_lighter@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago

Adderal has nearly the same effects of meth

[-] sanpedropeddler@sh.itjust.works 8 points 9 months ago

No the fuck it does not. They are both stimulants, that's effectively where the similarities end. A prescribed dose of adderal will not even come remotely close to the effects of recreational meth use.

[-] LittleBorat2@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago

20mg of Adderall and 20 mg worth of europaste will have similar effects.

The latter is taken recreationally.

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[-] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Having experience with both, it turns out you are correct but still an asshole. Meth is harder to dose correctly but it fixes the same problems with my brain that Adderall fixes.

[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

What would normal people be but normal?

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