EPTSometimes I feel like the main character of Flowers for Algernon. These people are not my friends, and I can barely tell, but I can't help sticking around because they seem so friendly.
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Alakaslam
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Sometimes I feel like the main character of Flowers for Algernon. These people are not my friends, and I can barely tell, but I can't help sticking around because they seem so friendly. | ||
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Mattchew
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Vivax
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On September 04 2022 11:58 Alakaslam wrote: Well I don't understand the giant reference, but I did not watch GoT it was too mainstream with people who insult me to my face while acting like they are my friends. Sometimes I feel like the main character of Flowers for Algernon. These people are not my friends, and I can barely tell, but I can't help sticking around because they seem so friendly. Who insulted you? Do you not remember the old games? I thought insulting was mainstream around here. Me and marv looked like mortal enemies until we had a chat. Posts are cursed | ||
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Vivax
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I thought people got less sensitive with age tbf, but feeling too powerful allows you to wind down your tolerance level | ||
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Alakaslam
United States17336 Posts
On September 04 2022 13:08 Vivax wrote: Who insulted you? Do you not remember the old games? I thought insulting was mainstream around here. Me and marv looked like mortal enemies until we had a chat. Posts are cursed Whoops I am talking about people here in Los Angeles, I did not know GoT was popular with the TL community in general or the Mafia community in particular. My bad, to clarify these are people I meet face to face with pretty regularly who nicely, smilingly, guilt me for being born "white", whatever that means (I am more brown than most of them, so they can't be speaking literally). | ||
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Alakaslam
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Alakaslam
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Vivax
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On September 04 2022 13:15 Alakaslam wrote: Honestly everyone I have met via TL has been more real than my supposed "real life" friends. It‘s advantageous how being behind an account suddenly makes people more equal. You just don‘t think about skin color when all you have is text, unless someone brings it up. I just can‘t stop being astonished at how salient this issue is for you Americans. But maybe it‘s a consequence of the sheer amount of people. | ||
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Chezinu
United States7468 Posts
On September 04 2022 13:15 Alakaslam wrote: Honestly everyone I have met via TL has been more real than my supposed "real life" friends. I will likely be in LA on October on a business trip. | ||
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Chezinu
United States7468 Posts
On September 04 2022 13:33 Vivax wrote: It‘s advantageous how being behind an account suddenly makes people more equal. You just don‘t think about skin color when all you have is text, unless someone brings it up. I just can‘t stop being astonished at how salient this issue is for you Americans. But maybe it‘s a consequence of the sheer amount of people. White liberal have gone crazy in US about racism. Almost all of my black friends would agree too. But I'm from the South and they are too. | ||
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Vivax
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I just compare Austrian and Italians and presume it’s true because I know both well. Slavs also have their own identity, some don’t like Hungarians etc It’s more about how you learn to deal with the differences than crusading that there can‘t be any | ||
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Chezinu
United States7468 Posts
On September 04 2022 13:43 Vivax wrote: But I think you‘d be lying to yourself just presuming that people from different places don‘t have a given tendency to behave differently, whatever their colour. I just compare Austrian and Italians and presume it’s true because I know both well. Slavs also have their own identity, some don’t like Hungarians etc It’s more about how you learn to deal with the differences than crusading that there can‘t be any If only they thought this way...lol | ||
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Vivax
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On September 04 2022 13:36 Chezinu wrote: White liberal have gone crazy in US about racism. Almost all of my black friends would agree too. But I'm from the South and they are too. Tbqh for an Euro it looks like in the US you like to go crazy over a lot of things judging by the news Here‘s an uncomfortable fact to think about: The thing that happened to Floyd happened in Austria too many years ago to a Senegalese man iirc. And I don‘t recall that leading to worldwide rioting (outrage yes, but not in this magnitude) That could tell you how on edge the different societies are for the rules they have to live under or whatever else | ||
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Mattchew
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Chezinu
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On September 04 2022 13:55 Vivax wrote: Tbqh for an Euro it looks like in the US you like to go crazy over a lot of things judging by the news Here‘s an uncomfortable fact to think about: The thing that happened to Floyd happened in Austria too many years ago to a Senegalese man iirc. And I don‘t recall that leading to worldwide rioting (outrage yes, but not in this magnitude) That could tell you how on edge the different societies are for the rules they have to live under or whatever else Note, it was the whites that started the riots if you watched the live streams. Some speculate that they were paid actors (there is footage of one said actors getting paid on camera). I could say more, but that would require me showing lots of videos. If you haven't heard, there are two Americas in the US. | ||
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Vivax
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Chezinu
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On September 04 2022 13:59 Mattchew wrote: Wtf are we talking about here Poor Slam is living in LA surrounded by racists. I have a friend who moved there a few months ago and it is a totally different world than where I live. | ||
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Chezinu
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Vivax
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On September 04 2022 14:04 Chezinu wrote: Poor Slam is living in LA surrounded by racists. I have a friend who moved there a few months ago and it is a totally different world than where I live. Moving is not a bad idea when everyone around you can‘t stop arguing instead of getting along and sometimes having to swallow a bitter pill to preserve the peace (had to make some experiences in this regard) Not moving to NA even for a billion. Was nice to visit but the climate makes you sweat in two ways. | ||
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Chezinu
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