this post is just for fun and meant to be light hearted.
context: I forgot that a chunk of the lemmy community kinda likes to petty and I made fun of someone irrelevant to the fediverse for being petty and angry at me, and I asked if anyone else got had any examples of pettiness. some of lemmy users sided with the person I was speaking with and treated me as though I was offended, which was kinda interesting.
I did think a scenario about asking a cop what the worst case of police brutality they witnessed?
I’m as leftist as it gets. I was called baby killer by someone at a mall when I was 19. I get their stance now, though at 19 I hadn’t killed any babys, still haven’t. But I thought I joined for the right purposes. 9/11 just happened and I was impressionable as a kid. It hurt. I thought I was doing the right thing at the time.
Impressionable kids were brought into a system that fucked them over. I thought I was doing the right thing by saving Americans that I thought were vulnerable. I’m not proud of where I’ve been or what I’ve done. I am proud that it helped me understand the world, and my subsequent choices. It disgusts me to know how many people I served with, that came away with a different understanding.
I felt we were there to help. We did some stuff that looked that way. Sometimes it even felt that way.
“Hey go feed the hungry and hand out school supplies”
And then on your way back “btw you’re passing by such and such on your way back, eliminate everyone who offers resistance.”
And you think of the kids “hey thanks for the crayons, but I really wish you didn’t kill my dad and 2 of my uncles in the process”.
My son idolizes me and my time in Iraq. I keep telling him that’s not something to look up to, and the job is full of pain. I honestly don’t know where I’m getting at with this, other than there’s no excuse for wars that didn’t need to happen. The military industrial complex decides we dont have enough information for the next war, so we start a new one with a smaller adversary and make up excuses.
Yep, here’s an example. Was out to dinner in South Korea with a group of people the day President Yoon (the guy who called martial law then rescinded in less than 24 hours) was impeached. I raised my glass and pronounced a toast to his impeachment. Turns out half the table was pro Yoon and pretty upset about it. Whoops
Got drunk and talked about hating cops to my friend who’s dad is a cop. Honestly he took it way better than I thought
Talked shit about cops to a guy I went to Iraq with who became a cop. I still give him shit for drinking his own piss. I treat him with contempt and he still thinks we’re friends.
A few years after I quit a job because of a terrible micromanaging blowhard, I was recounting the story to a group …including his brother.
How did the brother react?
Wrong subject? If I’m amused and the truth is discussed without hurting innocent people’s feelings, it wasn’t the wrong one, lol.
Bring up newer Star Trek and Star Wars around nerds and watch the world burn. 😈
i watched one with the khan and i was like “we really doing elf people” but that enterprise crash was pretty cool
Usually it’s because the topic i want to discuss is politically motivated. I always preface with, not to get political but… And try to make it a neutral conversation.
not to get political, but damn my stomach was hurting after eating that chilli
Yea, I try to not go down that path if available, but just tonight for example we were talking about an athlete who I lost respect for due to their not getting the covid vaccine when it was mandatory. I expressed that given the timing, I can empathize to an extent, but at a certain point, this person just ignored any procedure and didn’t work for an alternative, which there were paths for. In reality, it shouldn’t be a political opinion, but vaccines have become political.
I generally try not to engage in political discussion in person otherwise, but if I get pulled into it, I’m not in the habit of letting bigots speak without pushback, regardless of my relationship (boss, subordinate for example) to that person or persons. Silence is complacency. I try not to stir the pot, I’m not going to keep quiet just to not insult someone’s opinions, but I do try to speak in a respectful manner for the sake of conversation rather than debate.
90+% of the time it’s a non issue because I try to take steps to not be belligerent, and often times that leads to some level of constructive conversation or it just pivots to something else and we all move on amicably.
remember that tennis player that refused the vaccine because they didn’t know what was in it and didn’t want to risk their health or performance to the vaccine. being risk adverse is fair, but the league or countries still had a vaccine mandate and its like they shouldn’t get an exception because of their conviction, but you could see that antivaxxers would use that to drive people to be anti mandate.
ironically antivaxxers and the right kinda set the example that i should be out and unashamed of my politics, because they were very loud about their politics until trumps second term
You really throw a whole segment of the population into a single bucket here. Everyone is unique.
Oh yeah, lots of times.
