🔸political instability outside the US
🔸pandemic stuff: how risky is occasionally hanging out with friends, should i buy a gun, should i stockpile food
🔸am i fundamentally incompetent and incapable of doing anything
🔸will anyone want to marry me in time to have kids
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🔸wtf is going on with the aliens
🔸who are my people? do i have any? would they be willing to raise kids with me? do i have to bring them together? i don't feel capable of bringing them together
🔸should i reverse course completely and temporarily force myself to do stuff
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do you wanna hear commentary on these or is this for your convenience/to get it out?
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mostly just wanted to get it out but commentary you feel like would be helpful is welcome
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I find the idea that you just wanted the sensation of getting it out and it has nothing to do with wanting any of the consequences of getting it out
a) laughable, unlikely
b) profoundly pathological
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uh... that’s not what i said? why are you being this hostile?
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I am reading into the "just". More people should notice "just"s and how much they are hiding.
Hostile... :/? Do I come across as if I want to remove something? What thing?
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i’m balanced on the edge of blocking but i like your tweets so i’ll wait. i think you’re misreading the “just,” writing things out is useful for me, it’s easier for me to write things out on twitter than privately, i did not intend to imply that i didn’t want feedback
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calling something i said “laughable” and “profoundly pathological” reads hostile to me and i think that’s a reasonable read. if you’re trying to pull some socratic questioning with that last tweet i decline. i don’t play games like that with people who tweet like they hate me
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No, it was an earnest question, for me. I don't like those games either.
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okay this is what i was hoping for and why i didn’t just block. the first tweet comes across very hateful for no reason
comes across as like you want to lower my status which is the usual kind of aggro i get on the internet and it’s extremely tiresome, which is why i usually block people who do it
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What motivates those people?
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I wouldn't talk to people I hate that way.
Hmm, here's a screenshot from a place where people are very open with each other that explains a cultural assumption that I think is good
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The people who we actually hate are the people we should work hard not to alienate. The people who we trust and respect and are familiar with are the people we can afford to play rough with, hoping that they would not one day suddenly think we're trying to injure them.
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