Yet positive thinking has proven to be better for your mental and emotional state, helps you heal faster, and actually helps you succeed because you’re looking for opportunities instead of ignoring them, as well as actually trying those opportunities instead of talking yourself out of it.

It’s not a fallacy to try to think positively, it’s a scientifically proven tactic.

Yeah, you gotta know when to fold em, but saying that thinking you can do something is the same as a gamblers fallacy is a false dichotomy.

Weird how it seems like it’s all for women and safe sex but then criticizes a tool women have to checks notes take control of their sex lives and make decisions about getting pregnant.

Ok yeah, I’ve lived like that too and I can relate. Trust me when I say that I totally get that mental state.

The one flaw with it, though, that one has to break through eventually, is that it’s reactive. It’s always, ultimately, defined by others.

The escape clause I found was that one of the best ways to get back at the fuckers was to thrive. But to do that, I had to do what I wanted, not just react. But to get what I wanted, I first had to want something for myself, and then I realized I couldn’t get that if I held onto the idea that everything would be terrible forever. I had to have a gritty version of hope. I had to adapt to a positive mindset for my goals or else I’d be hampering myself.

So yeah, spite can get you to accomplish things, but it’s always a contrarian way of doing things, constantly teathered to showing someone up rather than actual freedom.

This is a brilliant way of looking at this whole situation. I think that if people can contextualize it like you said it would really help bridge the gap!

I’m not talking about being in denial. I’m saying that if you want things to not suck, you do have to have the idea that things might not suck somehow later. If you think things are always going to suck then you’ll never bother to make things not suck.

I’m not saying never to be angry, I’m saying never to give up.

I’m not saying that you need to do it in NT style at all! You gotta do it your own way.

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Ok, sure, but also negative thinking and giving up hope literally never helped once. It doesn’t help in real world ways and it makes your mental state worse. Obviously going around in a state of denial doesn’t help and ND people have specific challenges a NT person might not get, but ultimately you gotta cling to a positive mindset to make things better.

I’m with you on the morning people at least. I’m saying the tribalism is stupid.

I hate the Internet’s “extrovert vs introvert” tribalism. And it’s always the same two jokes. “Extroverts bad will suck out your soul and shame you for not liking it” and “ha ha we introverts use extroverts to get friends we don’t want friends we want to stay home and read and extroverts adapt us”.

and then people wonder why there’s a loneliness epidemic and complain they have no friends.

Dang it, a lot of our military is illiterate peasant farmers already…

Yeah, remembering stuff like Kent State and all, I don’t bank in it.

Insufferable

I love this idea. Celebratory hate bottles. It’s perfect.

It’s edgy because it’s missing the point. Ok yeah sure the news lies don’t trust the news blah blah, that’s ignoring that AI is not only regurgitating those lies but also even lying on top of that. “Uh the news lies anyway we should trust AI” is a dumb take.

I’d argue it’s going against the typical propaganda, which is saying that the poor, unemployed, drug using people at the bottom of the rung are miserable, stupid, hate their life and you should always fear that position in life. The solution presented is to work, for the benefit of a wealthy few. A comic that shows this station in life as desirable and good, that people living outside of the rat race can be happy, is subversive. It’s not saying “know your place and stay there”, it’s saying “you can still have beauty in your life even if you’re not wealthy”.

I see someone’s lived a privileged life and never lived in a poor neighborhood.

So, in wealthy neighborhoods, it’s not that people are cleaner and therefore somehow better than poor people. They actually have people to clean up the streets and yards for them. They also aren’t as crowded and don’t have as many shops near where they live. In poor neighborhoods, people can’t afford to hire people to clean up their yard and streets, there’s more people so there’s more of a chance someone is a jerk and litters, and there’s more shops so more people who don’t live there come in and also potentially litter. It’s an uphill battle to do it yourself all the time, so yeah, sometimes garbage drifts into your yard.

You ignored how clean and tidy the inside of their trailer is, where they have more control over their environment.

You’re exactly the kind of person who could learn a lesson from this comic but it goes right over your head.

This comment was like a pizza slicer, edgy but no point

I’ve seen on my feed just today about how ai lies about the news 45% of the time. It’s just not worth it.