Lots of people around me are excited for a racist march organised by flag-shagging, far-right knuckle-dragger Tommy Robinson.
So let’s call it a guideline rather than a rule.
Let’s make it “if someone is excited about something that doesn’t hurt other people…”
How about pro sportball? Those dudes get wrecked, but it’s largely considered acceptable to be excited about…
People were excited about Trump being elected and I make them feel shitty about it. How am I a bad person?
I think the post is more along the lines of people who like MCU releases and pumpkin spice lattes.
That stuff is all harmless, and I agree with the post in that spirit.
The obvious exception to this is cases of addiction or poor life decisions.
Like if you collect/play Pokemon or whatever as a hobby and are excited to get a rare card, that’s great and I’m happy for you.
If you’re underwater on your mortgage and your basement is full of beanie-babies - that you’re sure will make you rich in the future - but you just won a bid of $1000 for one rare beanie on eBay… yeah I’m not gonna be happy for you I’m gonna recommend talking to a professional
You just don’t understand, once I can get my hands on that Jonbenet Ramsey Beanie Baby it’s going to be my retirement plan, six months of back rent will seem paltry at that point, you’ll see. I’ve got big things going on, BIG THINGS!
LaBuenie Buaby
If I’m excited about something, I am very selective of who I share my excitement with. The comments here verifies that choice.
Aye, I think that was one of the hardest things to accept as I moved from kid to teenager to adult. There are going to be people who wouldn’t care if you were just elected the king/queen of prom, or accepted to med school at 18, or discovered a new form of life on the moon. Find the ones who enjoy your happiness and be happy for theirs.
I mean, I dunno if I’d support someone being like “Yay, meth!”
But have you tried meth?
A valid question, for I have not.
My coworker and i usually nerd out over some space shit but he keeps being excited for space x stuff. I always tear that down because fuck Elon. Other people are still doing cool space shit to get excited about.
I wanna know how so many people here know so many others in their lives that legitimately get excited about things like racism and shit. That’s the surprising thing to me in these comments
Maybe not many but an extended part of my family disowned a daughter because she is “gay”. Found that out just last week. So I suspect they get excited about this things just maybe not in the way most people think about getting excited
Is she OK? Capable of self-sufficiency and in a good place mentally?
I do not know, I don’t typically associate with that part of my family because of shitty behavior like this. I think she is, she went to college and has a good job, at least that’s the last I heard until they stopped talking about her. Now I know why they stopped taking about her
The obvious exception to this is cases of addiction or poor life decisions.
Like if you collect/play Pokemon or whatever as a hobby and are excited to get a rare card, that’s great and I’m happy for you.
If you’re underwater on your mortgage and your basement is full of beanie-babies - that you’re sure will make you rich in the future - but you just won a bid of $1000 for one rare beanie on eBay… yeah I’m not gonna be happy for you I’m gonna recommend talking to a professional
I shame people when they mention asking an LLM about anything. Does that count?
I think there are certain things that we, as a society, can agree are worthy of feeling shame.
Racism is probably number one.
But asking LLMs for any kind of advice or using them as search engines should be pretty high on that list.
Good question let me ask chatgpt for a sec-
I think it’s okay to be excited about stuff, but when someone is excited about something, am I expected to also be excited about it or else I’m considered a bad person for just being like “oh cool” and then not being any further interested?
I think this post is about belittling which makes a person feel like they shouldn’t talk about what they’re interested in. Saying “oh cool” is, by contrast, absolutely a reasonable response.
I’ll never forget the time I bought a book called Never Eat Alone and my ex ridiculed me for buying it (she’s Chinese so the idea of eating alone was ridiculous to her). I ended up just putting the book in my bookcase, to this day I still feel shitty when I look at it.
Fuck her. Read that thing.
You can like nu-trek all you want, but if my critique of it makes you feel dumb that’s not my fault.
Dreamstealers
I would need more specifics. Being excited about some things that are legitimately morally or ethically condemnable and in that case I wont pull punches in calling them stupid for their excitement.
If its just something I am cynical about, I earnestly think is stupid, or something I just don’t care about. I’ll usually not comment unless prodded or asked. In which case hey you asked for my opinion I’m not going to lie to you.
I have yet to meet the first person that doesn’t shoot me down when i share something i’m excited about.
Probably just that: “Dutch directness” i keep hearing about, which seems like an excuse for being an asshole in real life scenario’s.
Yeah Jeffrey go on buy that island and chase your dreams uwu
