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I always say that you have your choice between living in the novel 1984 (liberals) or Lord of the Flies (conservatives). The ONLY sanity is "purple". One reason I hate liberals (I'm anti liberal and anti conservative, us vs them destroys civilization) is because they have brainwashed their cult into thinking "bothsidesism" is evil...so basically think what they think or else you're "problematic". That's something where in the 90s most people would have been unbiased and uninfluenced by algorithm-based social media (i.e. Facebook, IG, YT, TikTok) enough to be like "Wow, that's a cult" and now yall are eating that kind of rhetoric up like there's any truth or sanity in blind faith. The SAME blind faith you diss on conservatives for. Liberals are delusional and hypocritical. Conservatives are illogical and bigoted. Fuck. Both. PERIODT.

This topic sure aged a certain way. It's funny because a lot of the warnings against polarization and the division of "us vs them" were things you guys brought up in convo in this thread in 2010, and now 13 years later SO many of you (I see y'alls Facebooks) are HUGE proponents of the very thing you warned about 13 years ago. Chilling. I wish I could say it was shocking. Remember when people didn't feed into groupthink because of Facebooks echochamber algorithm? Pepperidge Farms remembers 🤷🏼‍♀️

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I am a tool and sellout who totally jumped on the Matt Rife train and he's absolutely not my type other than being a funny jerk so I'm not even really sure why

I'm not on my phone I'm on my laptop so rn this is all I got lol

I was goth once, it was great.

WHOA so many people here now

Holy shit if I could drop 300 lbs I'd be so happy

Oh yeah, and everyone had to call him "Father Troy" *shudders* I went deep into his sex cult undercover for a minute where he was grooming women to be his servants and fucking WOWZA, just...don't bother looking. Let that just melt into the history books and be forgotten about lol.

I'm going to start by saying my family is from the UP, we're Finnish so it's ALL about being proud to suffer (we even have a word for it, "Sisu"). My family heavily looks down upon any kind of mental health help. It's all about being quiet about it until you end up dying somehow and then it's "oh we wish we could have done something" and people move on. I've had persistent depression that had led to addiction issues for at least the last 20 years, along with ravaging ADHD that makes it so I can't remember even the slightest things like paying bills, and when I do the executive dysfunction makes it so I don't. My mother in law used to be completely against anything like that as well, and eventually she realized she has ADHD and went on Vyvanse. I'm familiar with Vyvanse because I also have binge eating disorder and the idea of that being able to be STOPPED would be a godsend. What I'm getting at here is I've had it so engrained in my head that I'm going to be a "crackhead" (basically what my mom told me) and she went on this huge flurry of disappointment that I'd even CONSIDER going on antidepressants or something like Vyvanse because then I'm "weak" and "needing pills". I'm also afraid, like, what if she's right? What if it just leads to another addiction? So I guess I'm asking for input, has anyone had their lives changed for the better by getting on pills? Did anyone see a drastic change in personality that would be traumatic? What happens if I try to get off them? Have you had any negative side effects or experiences? I also don't have the insurance to see an actual therapist, so it would be my doctor who is a general practitioner throwing pills my brain hoping something works. I've never been down this path before so any advice or guidance would be great, thanks.

Omggggg I haven't seen you in AGES If I could be added to the map at 11 Mile and Little Mack in St Clair Shores that would be lit, thanks

YES I do not miss hangxiety, or hangovers in general, the last time I drank I threw up 20+ the following day and BLOODY chunks came out. I'm good on all that. Every time I'm tempted I'm going to have that mental image of my stomach lining floating around in bile in my toilet to remind me why I stopped.

We can always do this again but like old now and also I was always pretty sad I wasn't in it the first time around

But not new to us! Welcome, Lisa, we gonna get Royal Canadian back on as well? This is an exciting time in DGN history rn for sure lol

I know I'm doing the right thing but this is fucking awful, I'm sad and anxious all the time, I don't feel content hardly ever. Anyone else on the same journey?

I said that to Doug I was like "You know, in the 90s we all woulda shat ourselves at this, but in 2023, we're tired, it's basically always South Park all the time now"

Noooo not even CLOSE watch A Social Dilemna and read "Why We're Polarized" there's a reason Facebook is chemically addictive and socially divisive, it is LITERALLY engineered to keep users scrolling (they make their money on ads, every third post is an ad) regardless of the damage to the users life it causes, it's eye opening

Why now? Like, it's not the existence that has me shook, it's the fact that it's coming out NOW. What happened to allow them to declassify that info? Are we going to be intergalactic now and just live some Guardians of the Galaxy life? Have we been blinky-thinged collectively before? Is some alien going to dupe us into getting on a bus for a field trip and take us to a room with a moose instead? Discuss

Wow, what the fuck did I click on here, you guys?

Bitch, cancel me.

I have various reasons why I returned, so many old members are rushing in with new members signing up. Are we all basically waking up to the fact that Facebook isn't a positive social outlet for ANYONE? Are we tired of complaining about billionaires and then hypocritically posting on Facebook all day earning Zucc billions? For me it was that, not only is it under new management so we can have an actual community instead of the founder's "My way or the highway" fascism, but also I'm tired of posting and feeding into the red vs blue fervor. Studies have proven time and time again that groupthink is bad, echo chambers lead to death chambers, and that social media LITERALLY is programmed to KEEP...YOU...SCROLLING. So people want to blame EVERYTHING but social media for their problems...the sink full of dishes...the fights with strangers...the lack of sleep from scrolling and fighting with people until 3am...the preoccupation of mental powering researching what the newest fad to be offended about is...it's ALL. SOCIAL. MEDIA. ADDICITION. People defending it sound like people who rag on someone who is on heroin for going to rehab, because it forces them to reflect on the inside to realize that they ALSO have a problem and just don't want it to be true. On here we have ACTUAL discourse, real discussions, actual friendships, without worrying about crazy Q-Anon uncles coming in and going off about Biden funding Soros' adenochrome supply or someone posting an innocent photo of their cat and someone calling them out for being "offensive towards cats". Man it feels good to be home, and I'm mad I even wasted a single post on Facebook, since it was just feeding the addiction I feel like I threw away so many years of my life.

Why do I get the suspicion I know you? If not, then welcome anyway

I just opened a fortune cookie and there was no fortune in it, how long left do I have to live?

I still wanna sit down and watch it

Mannnn I still gotta go get my license enhanced