I don’t think that’s helpful. You can tune it out because you have the privilege to do so.
While your neighbors and friends who are feeling the pressure of all of this. My family is colored. No amount of tuning it out is going to stop a ICE agent from entering a restaurant and demanding identification.
It may be possible that a work incident has made it so hearing your name in passing making you twitch is because it’s always used in a non-positive way.
I worked at a toxic workplace and if I ever heard my name that wasn’t directly at me, it was because someone was sharing drama that involved me. Or I was being mocked. Or worse, they were preparing to rip into me.
My new job, everyone is pretty positive and if I hear my name across the hall, I’m excited.
I was thinking about this last year as America is being clowned by out-of-state actors and why it happens:
If you paid somebody in the US to shit-talk the Yellow team in say (and I’m picking a country at random) Romania, and promote the Blue team instead… They’d probably do it. Even if it’s something insignificant like $50 a week. The US person has zero interest in the politics of Romania.
Fire off a few tweets like “Yellow team again failing people.” Or “Blue team, true patriots”, upvote some diversive shit, repost some memes, and easy money.
This is happening every day for cheap.
Mix in some AI bots, and for a few thousand dollars, you recreated Twitter’s racist/hate shit that controls the narrative.
Have you considered getting a R tattoo on your left hand and a L tattoo on your right hand?
You should try giving better feedback.
The biggest mistake I ever made was bring my kid to a non-official Pokemon TCG event.
A dozen of sweaty nerds all gave my kid unsolicited advice. My kid is under 10 and collects cards based on how attractive the art is. Like chill the fuck out.
I mean I see it all the time in steam forums and social media.
Gamers taking one look at a screenshot or trailer video, and immediately giving their take about how it “should be”.
You have non-smart knives that don’t have a usb3 port for updates?
Yep! Seeing a titty isn’t the same as wanting to restrict women’s rights and wanting to lock up immigrants for existing.
Absolutely this.
YouTube is a fucking fascism treadmill.
I don’t even have an account and I watch a YouTube video from Lemmy, and the next recommended video is some “influencer” flaming the hate train but disguised as a pseudo thought piece.
As an experiment! This one’s a mass Market privacy masturbation dome.
What is this for? Like both in the joke and also in reality?
And he’s still sticking to his shit conspiracy about it.
Same scenario, but they’re hot AF.
(Me, shy and introverted, introducing myself)
Them: oh that’s my dog’s name.
Me: cool. Cool cool cool. Cool.
(Them being hot doesn’t change things.)
(Me, shy and introverted, introducing myself)
Them: oh that’s my dog’s name.
Me: cool. Cool cool cool. Cool.
I legitimately thought domestic as well. This fucking administration broke America hard.
Not sure why you’re being downvoted.
Proton CEO praised a Trump admin. I prefer my net neutrality folks to not ever kiss the ring of any government.
I wouldn’t mind China arresting fox news for being political agitators. Those “Press” badges are fake.