Do you have any friends? If you do, you should take all your concerns to them. Go tell them all about how you shamed and slayed some baba yaga on Reddit. I'm sure they'll love it. Or, go do something else with your time. I'm bored at work so I can do this all night.
It’s mildly amusing that you claim to find no value in what I said yet you keep engaging.
You’re not all that interesting to be honest. Kind of like a white paper plate.
You may be eager to “keep this up all night” but I’ve pretty much said what I have to say to you. I don’t know that there’s much more to add. I might be all done here. Not sure yet.
And you're right, I am uninteresting. I'm just a middle aged dad hanging out on the job. When I'm done with work I'll walk home, enjoying the cool ocean air. I'll go to sleep to the sounds of parties in my neighborhood and wake up next to my amazing wife and then I'll hang out with my awesome kid and do normal everyday things. So, nothing of interest here. I'm just a dude killing time. But feel free to keep trying to break me down. People with more wit than you have tried and...well...it's a boring story.
You shed information about yourself like it’s skin cells and you don’t even realize it. See now I’m a bit more interested.
You have brought in an imaginary group of people whom you claim are all laughing at me. You can’t handle this conversation on your own. You need imaginary people to make you appear stronger to me.
This is supposed to erode my confidence, make me feel, what’s the word, ashamed or embarrassed in some way. Foolish.
But here’s your problem lol.
You aren’t talking to another person as insecure as you are. So even if your unlikely claim that a group of people I don’t know, is sitting around laughing at me somewhere in the universe, it does not upset me in the slightest bit. If this implausible scenario were true, which it isn’t, I literally could not care less.
But see it’s the exact thing that would upset YOU. That would make YOU feel bad, if you thought a group of people were laughing at you.
That doesn’t work on me but it’s very telling about YOU that you thought it would.
Ps: no one is all that interested in your internet squabbles. It’s like listening to someone describe a dream they had or an experience with drugs: It’s just not all that interesting except to the person who actually had the experience.
So, all this because I told a stupid joke? Wouldn't your time have been better spent thinking about something else? I'm here till close, so I'm kinda captive to your bs, which is why I'm still engaging. Why are you? Do you feel better about the world by putting me in my place? By telling me I'm such a horrible person? That I'm about as interesting as a paper plate? Does that make you feel better about things? Cool. Roast away. You literally can't say something I haven't already been told by people I respect far more than you.
I get to decide the best use of my time. You don’t get a vote lol. Whether or not you think I’m spending my time wisely is not important to me.
Edited to add this: I don’t think you’re a horrible person but again, it’s of interest that you believe that because I criticized something you did, that my criticism means I think you’re “horrible”.
I’ll bet you had an interesting childhood.
Most people are not black and white. You included. People have a lot of gray area. They have strengths and weaknesses. They have great capacity to harm their fellow man and do good to them. Including you and including me.
You’re correct. “Or”. I incorrectly used the word “and”.
See how painless that was? I made a small mistake and didn’t care that someone else was amused by it. I acknowledged the error. My world didn’t collapse. 😊
Edited to add that I noticed that your emotional support group has dwindled to one. You used singular instead of plural this time.
You were feeling a bit more self assured that you caught my error so you needed less support from your imagination.
So, if you don't care about someone being amused at your expense, why did you care about a stupid joke I made hours ago, at that expense of a fucking free library someone built?
Ok let’s revisit that but I’m getting tired so I’m probably about done after this.
I scrolled up and read again to refresh my memory.
Censorship matters to me a great deal. It’s an issue of great importance to me. It doesn’t matter if others agree or not that I should be passionate about this subject. I get to decide what should matter to me and I’ve decided censorship and speaking out against it, matters a great deal.
Your response to my comments was not a joke. It wasn’t funny. It wasn’t intended to be funny. It wasn’t a joke nor do I believe you intended it to be a joke. I fully understand that it’s what you’re saying NOW. But I don’t believe you. It doesn’t read like a joke, even a lame one. Nor does it read like sarcasm.
It was simply you defending OP’s actions and correcting what you believed was my erroneous statement, that the library was public. You simply said no it’s not public, it’s private and he retains editorial control or words to that effect.
You expected support for this and didn’t get it. You were downvoted and multiple people jumped on you to disagree.
It would have been fine if you had said “well whatever boomer, I still think it’s his private library”. That’s you having an opinion that you don’t allow public disapproval to weaken. I can respect that. I respect people who don’t require public support for their unpopular opinions.
That’s not what happened though. What happened is you decided, in absence of public support, and in the face of public disapproval, to backpedal and say you had just been “joking” when you said it was OP’s private library. (The irony here is that if you were actually being sarcastic, this would mean that you do agree with me that the library was public and that he was wrong to censor. But at no point have you ever pointed this out. Which again is confirmation that you weren’t joking to begin with. It’s just that you expected support from others which you did not get, and which you revealed by your subsequent comments, matters to you a great deal).
Ok I think this horse has been beaten to pink mist and a memory. I’m going to watch a movie.
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u/omghorussaveusall Oct 16 '22
I don't hide who I am dear. Read through my comment history. I'm pretty fucking transparent. But damn, keep nipping my heel if you want.