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Cake day: July 31st, 2023

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  • Yeah for someone to change their whole viewpoint takes time.

    Imagine if someone was gonna try to argue that your opinion on a recent conflict is wrong. Obv if it’s that confronting you’re gone disregard that. But if he says something about it every once in a while you start to think more about and then you learn and grow. Because either you come to the conclusion your standpoint is really short sighted, or you at least appreciate their perspective.

    And let me be clear: whatever you learn, it will be a good thing, because the more perspective, the more experience.

    I have a friend who votes for trump and we clash heads a lot about politics, but I know I will learn so much about his viewpoint it is worth it to a certain degree, and I’m not gonna try to “convince” him, because I want him to critically think about his opinions and learn what he needs to from my perspective.

    If you wanna fight racism for example, be a living example about how stupid it is and how nice it feels to know you can judge people by what they do and not what they look like. Don’t talk about, just be clear whenever the topic comes up.




  • 100% agree.

    The best thing you can do is be nice to them and ignore passive aggression. Some ppl are not nice because they are scared and being defensive helps them, some are assholes, some are confused. Whatever it is, killing them with kindness actually works on a lot of people. The more you do it, the more people realize you are not faking your personality but this is just who you are, and they become more familiar with you.

    If people don’t react to your greetings, just walk as if they don’t deserve your kindness, because it’s true. Maybe someday they will.








  • Famous enough that there’s a steady fan base listening to my music (a thousand people internationally sounds great to me) but nothing more than that. I want that genuine fandom, where people actually enjoy being in a niche and no one stalks you and generally people don’t know you wherever you go.

    Not even for the money, but just to feel appreciated and to know I have a positive impact on people, that’s all I want.

    If it’s only the two extremes? Yeah I’m totally cool with a quiet life.




  • Lol

    There’s plenty of people who want that sort of discussion on Lemmy.

    Btw there’s legit uses for the “dark web”. Getting crucial drugs that are illegal (e.g. opioids against PTSD, maybe even abortion drugs soon), communication channels for politically targeted people and more.

    And obviously especially when it is so co controversial, that is even more of a reason for a public discussion forum about it. Lemmy is all about different perspectives, so that fits perfectly.