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ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling , (edited )

Extreme/insane positions on everything. Not just one or two insane positions, not just political extremism; when I say everything I mean EVERYTHING. No nuance allowed. And it has to be fully sincere, otherwise you are dealing with a Jreg.

There are milder versions of this, but I have rarely met a child that didn’t have a strongly held insane belief formed from their limited experiences. My favorite was a kid who told me that eating pasta supports fascism because it comes from Italy, so loving Italian products means you support Mussolini. Pizza is fine, though, because that’s American.

CaptPretentious ,

I’ll bite. What’s a Jreg?

lseif ,

jreg is a youtube who (ironically?) claims to be anti-centrist, meaning taking an extreme stance on everything, regardless of which extreme.

twei ,

jreg is a youtube

Found the adult

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

A youtuber who was relatively popular with enlightened centerists around 2019. Links so you can look on and cringe:

He also would attend rallies and spout political gibberist

KillingTimeItself ,

jreg is pretty based i think. His content is satire, for sure. A lot of his recent stuff has been delving into more philosophical shit though.

Dude literally doxxed himself and asked people to kill him (in lore)

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

I was a big fan of jreg pre-2020, but after giving up mainstream social media I currently believe that only cowards, frauds, and master satirists feel the need to use irony. It’s arrogant to think you are the third, and I dont think Jreg is either. I think he is a coward.

KillingTimeItself ,

ah, i think you should catch up a little bit on jreg then. He’s had a similar story arc lmao.

He’s “unironically Jregular now”

Gigasser ,

He’s actually leftist I think, and was parodying centrists too

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

If I remember his coming out video, he’s a Democratic Socialist. Which, if the political compass made sense, would be just right of center. But I guess thinking people deserve rights is inherently left-wing to Americans lol

rambling_lunatic ,

He’s Canadian

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

You mean We Have America At Home?

KillingTimeItself ,

yeah pretty much this. Dealing with one right now, people are funny.

SturgiesYrFase ,
@SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml avatar

Uuuuuugh. I remember being so black and white, there wasn’t any middle ground on anything. It was exhausting.

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

I’m just glad I decided to go full moral relativism right away back then. It was a good way to speedrun maturity, although I did maintain some kooky beliefs into early adulthood such as

  • "if you are not multilingual you can’t be a good person, and the more languages you speak the better of a person you are"
  • “The Democratic party is a puppet of the Republican party, and in reality the U.S. is only pretending to be a two-party state”
  • “The age of consent should be 25.”
  • “Evil people can be good functioning members of society, so we shouldn’t discriminate against people who hold evil beliefs as long as they are nice to others.”

It was exhausting. Opposite reason from you, there was only middle ground, no black and white allowed. But it came from the same mental place. Pride, arrogance, nieveté.

ghost_of_faso2 ,
@ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml avatar

The Democratic party is a puppet of the Republican party, and in reality the U.S. is only pretending to be a two-party state”

Ah, I see what you mean, anyone who disagrees with you is a child. America is a one party state, just in typical american exburance they have two of them.

ProfessorOwl_PhD ,
@ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net avatar

to go full moral relativism right away

Jesus, so you still think the mature stance was “maybe Hitler wasn’t morally wrong”? Bad news, you still have a lot of maturing to do. Like a fucking phenomenal amount. Just because your beliefs as a child were even more baseless doesn’t mean you’ve moved to a sensible position.

Peppycito ,

Quite the personality analysis from a five sentence comment.

frezik ,

If you’re going to lecture about “maturing”, then maybe don’t start by jumping to conclusions based on the first sentence.

ProfessorOwl_PhD ,
@ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net avatar

Actually I jumped to conclusions based on the whole comment, as it makes them seem like they consider becoming a moral relativist to be speeding through maturity.

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

Thats not what I meant, but I can see why you read what I wrote that way. I personally think “There is no such thing as Truth” was a better place to mature away from than “I’ve been on this earth for 12 whole years, so I’m grown enough to know what the truth is”. I also think you missed the part where I don’t believe any of the moral relativism stuff anymore. My young adulthood was nearly 10 years ago, even the clooge I listed at the bottom is loooong gone.

ProfessorOwl_PhD ,
@ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net avatar

Ok, I see what you mean, the way you wrote it made it seem like you considered the process of becoming a moral relativist to be speed running maturity. Well done for growing out of it, then.

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

See, this right here is why I love you folks on Hexbear. Every good-faith argument can end as a good-faith argument instead of devolving into screeching. That’s pretty rare on the internet.

SturgiesYrFase ,
@SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml avatar

Glad we grew out of it.

Valmond ,

Ha ha that’s hilarious 😂 such a cherry pick too

MataVatnik ,
@MataVatnik@lemmy.world avatar

This. This is how I pick out if I’m arguing with an adult or not

ZombiFrancis ,

Trick question: assume everyone is a child until proven otherwise.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

I thought everyone was a dog until proven otherwise.

Rakonat ,

New rule, everyone is a puppy until proven otherwise.

CileTheSane ,
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar

When they start calling people “jr” or implying anyone who disagrees with them is too young to understand.

Feathercrown ,

Yup, I immediately assume these people are children, because it likely comes from their own experiences being dismissed due to their age.

psivchaz ,

Generally when people bring up some personal detail, my immediate reaction is to assume the opposite. Especially if it begins with “as a.” For example: “as a woman,” this person is a man. “As a black person,” this is the whitest person you will ever meet. “As a 60 year old,” definitely ten.

troglodytis ,

As a late 40s white man, I agree

EuroNutellaMan ,
@EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world avatar

As a poor person who isn’t the president of the US and doesn’t have access to nuclear launch codes, I agree

NauticalNoodle ,

I can’t say there is one. Every time i think to myself something like “goddamn, this person is immature” I remind myself that there’s a high number of immature adults in the world including myself, so…?

arin ,

One was fucking president of USA

Hugh_Jeggs ,

And millions elected him

oxjox ,
@oxjox@lemmy.ml avatar

When someone asks what’s a dead give away someone is a kid, it tells me they’re not old enough to remember the ASL days.

Gnugit ,

ASL

Natanael ,

13647/F/a weird anime

Gnugit ,

Hot. PM sent.

Taleya , (edited )

I wrote a whole goddamn novel-sized autorespond in Polaris that triggered on an asl. I was a 96 year old tibetan yak farmer who was allergic to wool and hated the local monks. I used to pee in their milk until one day the abbot found out and beat me with his hat.

Either that or it started screaming about asexual lizards

EuroNutellaMan ,
@EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world avatar

fun fact: a lot of people who don’t remember the ASL days are adults now

ProgrammingSocks ,

Your definition for kid is out of date.

Fungah ,

They hate porn.

oscardejarjayes ,
@oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net avatar

the only dead giveaway is if they get doxxed

Nath ,
@Nath@aussie.zone avatar

The neat thing about anonymous discussion on the Internet is that it doesn’t matter. What you have to say is all that matters.

I don’t know anything about anyone and that’s great.

roguetrick ,

I promise you, no matter how impactful something we have to say is, it doesn’t matter.

troglodytis ,

The way what you have to say gets to most internet users is via light, no matter

MBM ,

At the same time that’s one of the bad parts of anonymous discussion. You never know if someone’s an expert or a random person guessing (on ELI5), engaging in good faith or purposely trolling, etc.

fukurthumz420 ,

idk, but i wish they’d go away because i fucking hate them.

NOBODY CARES ABOUT YOUR VAPID DRAMA. QUIT MUDDYING THE WATERS OF DISCUSSION WITH YOUR LACK OF ANY REAL LIFE EXPERIENCE.

MeetInPotatoes ,

Assuming that getting married means you’ll never masturbate again.

HelixDab2 ,

Well. I was married to someone that thought it was disgusting, hated that I masturbated, and did her level best to shame me out of it. She also hated sex. (Well, with me; she suddenly liked sex once we were separated and she was dating.) And many fundamentalist religions do teach that no one should ever masturbate, and that women should always be sexually available to their husbands, no matter what. (Oh, and women don’t have sexual needs or desires of their own, they just exist to fulfill male needs.)

Soulcreator ,

Once yearssss ago I dated a girl who was one of those uber conservative types, and early on tried to set a rule that I wasn’t allowed to masturbate as that was cheating in her eyes. I remember just laughing in her face and my response was a firm “no”. I can tell this annoyed her, but quickly realized this wasn’t an argument she was going to win and quickly dropped the matter. Anyway I guess I dodged a bullet with that one.

HelixDab2 ,

My ex-wife wasn’t even conservative, so IDK.

MeetInPotatoes ,

That sounds rough, sorry to hear that. Being with someone that doesn’t treat you well for too long is damaging. Sounds like you found one of the millions that was absolutely not the right one for you though and I hope you can let it just be that when you’re ready. I could stand to take my advice to be fair lol.

lseif ,

im an adult and i thought that 💀

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

That’s just a fundamentalist though

Zozano ,
@Zozano@lemy.lol avatar

Quick to call other people kids as an insult.

Hadriscus ,

that’s what I suspected all along

Alice ,

Short of a birth year in their username, I’m not sure there is one. Almost everything in this thread is something millennials inflict on me daily.

SuperSaiyanSwag ,

I honestly can’t tell. Whenever I see a dumb outrage for video games, I tell my self that it’s a kid, but deep down I I really don’t know

jsomae ,

As an adult, I have smart outrage over video games.

Egon ,
@Egon@hexbear.net avatar

pronouns :yea:

exanime ,

Kids care too deeply about the most shallow things

loudWaterEnjoyer ,
@loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Shut up you care about the most shallow things!!!

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,

no i dont!!!1!!! i only care about the best things. you are stupid!!

01011 ,

Only kids? I know some very shallow grown folks with kids of their own.

exanime ,

Those never matured

Theme ,

I don’t know

Edit: thanks for all the likes! I never got 100 before!!! 💀

Hadriscus ,

riesling !!

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