Sorry for the super sporadic posting. Still in the process of moving and everything. I am giving updates on my Mastodon and !stamets@lemmy.world if anyone is interested but there’s really no reason to be.

Hope everyone has a fantastic Friday. Live long and prosper, you glorious bastards.

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    9 months ago

    Have you never had a positive interaction in your whole life? This isn’t even that far fetched of a story.

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      9 months ago

      For real. I have literally had an interaction like this in my life. This isn’t that uncommon. Why that user is so insistent that everything nice is fake and nothing is real is beyond me. Just bizarre.

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      9 months ago

      It’s not that its far fetched its just…the way its written. I mean I have literally been in this situation as a straight dude so yes, this happens lol.

      But this post just sounds like tumblr crap.

      A compliment is a compliment no matter who it comes from.

      This just feels like ‘and here is the moral of the story dear reader’

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            It’s needless negativity. It feels like an attempt to smother any possibility that there might be happiness elsewhere in the world. In short: it sucks keep it to yourself.

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              That’s what it is to you. Thats a very strange over the top reaction as well. All people are saying, at least me, can’t speak for the other guy is…while yes…things like this do happen (and have happened to me) this particular post is pretty poorly written and feels like typical tumblr reblog bait. Good things happen. That doesn’t mean we cant look at a very poorly written ‘good thing’ story and say ‘yeah that probably didn’t happen’.

              It feels like an attempt to smother any possibility that there might be happiness elsewhere in the world

              I’m sorry, but do you always go through life assuming the worst of people like this? This is the single most negative thing I have seen in this thread so far.

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                9 months ago

                You’re right, that was over the top. It was an exaggeration as a poor attempt to make my point, and I did that because I felt you were deliberately avoiding answering my initial question. I apologize for my ineptness in making my point.

                (The point was it doesn’t matter if this story is fake even if someone made it to farm internet clout.)

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                  9 months ago

                  So all fake stories should just be treated as real no matter how obviously fake? But only if they are wholesome?

                  For example if I posted this would you be defending it with this much hostility? It’s very wholesome after all.

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                    9 months ago

                    Please don’t put words in my mouth. And I’m sorry you mistook my snark for hostility, I didn’t intend for my comments to be hostile although I see how you came to that conclusion.

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      Yep like you said in your own words “story” because it is written like one which would get the poster the most likes

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          The part were everyone clapped and the bartender was albert einstein. Don’t be a cheap shot i know what you are getting at and no i am a leftist atheist and believes everyone should have their freedom . I hope you could get the medical help you need to get rid of such a dark mind .

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            I wasn’t “getting” at anything, I was genuinely asking what about the story upset you so much.

            Based on your answer you are upset by the story because you believe it to be fake? If I’m correct, why is that?

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            I hope you could get the medical help you need

            Wow, the call is definitely coming from inside the house on this one.

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              Really am i the one who can’t take a thing without accusing people of being an homophobe ? Everyone who spents five minutes on my history can see that i am not . Now cry as all you know are the insults you memorised in high school and can’t make a solid argument.

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                  Talking with you is a waste of my time as you either are a troll or can’t see past your own ass

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                    Now cry as all you know are the insults you memorised in high school and can’t make a solid argument.

                    This you?