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>>208093
People on the left, yes.

>>208095
>ywn live to see leftist men return to being dangerous bandits, revolutionaries and independent militants whose left wing activism involves assassinating presidents and robbing banks
the day has gone down in the west.

>>208095
why can't Americans ever shut up about their retarded politics

>>208093
In ways but everything smelled in the past. They say up until the 1930s there was a stench to human civilization. For most of human history people smelled to hell and back of absolute ass. Think about that, think about it long and hard. Most of your ancesters smelled like farm animals.

Also they were much more prone to violence, religious hysteria and ignorance.

>>208095
Look at right wing politician tantrums and think long and hard about what you just said.

>>208099
And they're spreading this crap across the world, here in hellzil now people really love to shove fucking politics in absolutely everything and really fell soooo smart for it, wtf

>>208103
>smelled like farm animals
This is what I'm trying to be

Resilient to what exactly?
> If you're wrong, an asshole, or mentally ill whole communities who assure you that you're right, normal and valid are just a few clicks away.
Except some of those groups are right and a lot of what's seen as normal absolutely should not be.

>>208093
Also btw op you should have used a different pic for the thread, this scrote is uggo and I hate having to scroll past it

>>208093
Definitely. That's part of why anxiety and depression rates are going up. Read "The Coddling of the American Mind:" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/

>>208142
Thanks for the rec, anon

>>208099
I'm not American lmao. It's just the truth and >>208096 gets it.

>>208142
are people today really more anxious and depressed than people in the past though? if these rates are based on official diagnoses, keep in mind, a lot more people in the past didn't go to therapy, because there was more stigma attached to it, and fewer services were available.

>>208164
Yeah I don't think people today are necessarily worse off mentally. In the past people would just drink more alcohol to self medicate, smoke, men would just go to brothels more and spank their wives more to vent or something. Nowadays people are more willing to seek therapy, psychologists and psychiatrists which causes the statistics to rise but I don't think there was ever a time millions of people weren't very anxious, depressed and stressed.
Just asking older people and people from your family and it's enough to see that people had more or less the same problems, they just didn't seek proper help and instead would hit the bottles or other more socially acceptable means specially men.
The only difference I can see is that this newer generation like teens and children may be more depressed and anxious compared to the past specially because the pandemic stunted them but other ages, not really

According to some teachers this is their worst group of kids ever. Lockdown virtual school and social media already destroyed them.

>>208178
My extremely selective school had gotten rid of test scores the year after I placed in. I can't speak for how underclassmen behave since I am mostly in higher level courses, but there's a joke at my school where people will say "test-optional moment" if someone who does something stupid or naïve

>the first post ITT is bait
I wonder if the thread itself is bait too. Also that image is hideous.

>>208228
>every opinion that is not exactly the same as mine is bait.
This post is bait.

>>208093

You've got hoards of students on college campuses doing shit like snapping their fingers to not trigger someone by clapping, and a bunch of they/them blue-hairs actively working as employees at said college campuses too. So yes. A whole generation of braindead, paperthin skinned NPCs are being actively encouraged and put in positions to keep encouraging this behavior. College was once supposed to prepare young people for the real world. Now it's just an institution to keep shielding people from it.

>>208262
Ok but you sound like out of touch tinfoil-hat wearing trailer trash with the way you describe university, and it's hard to take this level of paranoid seriously

>>208280
Have you been at university in any western country? What she's describing is no weird or alien in a university setting in any way.

>>208281
NTA but while I agree that college campuses do act as a kind of shelter from unwanted (ie right-wing) opinions, I've never heard of anyone snapping instead of clapping because it will "trigger" people kek I think >>208262 is mildly exaggerating what it is like at a university in the 2020s

>>208284
>I've never heard of anyone snapping instead of clapping because it will "trigger"
Because it's fucking fake, like all culture war nonsense.
the article the initial moron linked is also just culture war nonsense. No real analysis at all.

>>208288
Why do brainwashed leftists insist on calling things "fake" when they give you bad optics? Do you think these Soviet-type tactics work in 2022?
What about unviersities promoting prostituting while refusing to lower their tuition so that their female students don't have to be raped for money in order to study? Is that also fake? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/sex-work-durham-university-students-b1956484.html
Universities are a hell hole of indoctrination and anyone who attends one knows it is true.

>>208281
>>208284
If students and proffessors lean towards progressive, nobody is sheltering anybody. There simply isn't neocon influence. How would stimulating right wing lunacy improve the situation though. Trannies make up a tiny fraction of student populations, and as revolting as they're they're not as braindead as sleazy right-wings will ever be. Rightwingers are pactically vetables upstairs. Look at the fiasco with Mccarthy and tell me we need more blithering buffoons like that, they're a danger to themselves and everything they come in contact with

>>208291
>neocon
stopped reading + wish america would fall already

>>208294
You're just another squirming rightoid scrote, or pickme desperate enough to sleep with one though

>>208296
You're a tedious NPC and if I wanted to read uninspired ramblings of mediocre Americans I'd go to Twitter.

>>208297
Then why did you post to this thread at all ??? You think they won't infest your country like they've infested China, Russia, Hungary?

>>208299
American retardation? It has already infested my country, which is why I can tell you how ridiculously cult-like and anti-intellectual universities in the West have become thanks to American wokelet ideology.

>>208300
You make it sound like you would rather the population return to being uneducated serfs though???

Do you live in an asshole of a country where that is common place, and dumb women make better wives??

It's hard to tell with the way you generalize university. You say "anti-intellectial" but look at half if Brazil and what intellectual means to them.

>>208312
>uneducated serfs
My country had fully-functional universities while you were still throwing kids off pyramids, you dolt. We don't need American retardation to educate us.

>>208314
Pyramids ? Apparently you do, an American could still write something that made more sense than this

>>208291
>If students and proffessors lean towards progressive, nobody is sheltering anybody. There simply isn't neocon influence
This notion that the ideological duel between liberals and conservatives is the full spectrum of politics and that liberals represent the left wing ought never have taken root in academia of all places. Progressives are definitely dedicated to sheltering people. They shelter liberalism from acknowledging its inherent relationship to imperialism, for starters. Even the most Conservative academics ought to have the academic integrity to acknowledge the immense divide between liberals, like Kennedy, and leftists, like Lee Harvey Oswald. But they don't, because they are not held to account, because progressives are more dedicated to sheltering liberalism from acknowledging its relationship to imperialism than they are to either holding their "adversary" conservatives to the truth or to fostering the myth that all the benefits the world has had from Leftism are instead owed to Liberalism.

>>208320
>culture warrior
Does anything exist in your brain apart from social media buzzwords?

>>208317
In which an American finds out there were pyramids in its continent.

>>208323
You're the one who thinks women being encouraged to use onlyfans by a university (by the way maybe link an article I don't have to sign up for to get the details next time, I'm not fucking doing that) is somehow something I should have to answer for when it has nothing at all to do with what I, or you for that matter said.
This is how people who get their understanding of these things from the fucking culture war try to argue. It's also stupid and YOU are stupid.

>>208329
>by the way maybe link an article I don't have to sign up for to get the details next time
Did you start using the internet yesterday?

What I said is that American wokelet ideology has infested universities, and you were hell-bent on denying it. I gave you one example of that. Go cry more on Twitter, maybe try to get them to cancel this website to make you feel better.

>>208329
>You're the one who thinks women being encouraged to use onlyfans
NTA, but where did she say that.
To me it seems like she's just not that interested in your anglo culture-war BS
>>208290
>Do you think these Soviet-type tactics work in 2022?
>Communism is when you call something fake. The more you call it fake, the more communist you are.
Guess, you're a fascists. Because fascism is when you're butt-hurt. The more butt-hurt you are, the more fascists you are

> If you're wrong, an asshole, or mentally ill whole communities who assure you that you're right, normal and valid are just a few clicks away.
My experience has been the opposite, I've almost always been treated like I'm wrong and insane no matter what my position is. People don't have anything to lose by being blindly demeaning online, like they do IRL.

>>208290
>Universities are a hell hole of indoctrination and anyone who attends one knows it is true.
Nah, this is bullshit. The average university is very utilitarian, people go there to get a degree and not much else. We just hear more about these little bits of cringe because they're fun to talk about but they are such a tiny fucking part part of the experience that you usually have to actively seek them out to have any contact with them.

The day-to-day life of a modern university is so fucking dull that you'll wish it actually was the cringefest people told you it was.

>>208093
yes because these days the more "victim" you are the less people can do to you so you stfu with your whining, or rioting, etc. Happens all the time.

>>210055
Depends what degree you’re getting. Honestly the better the prospects of work after a degree the better the classes.

>>210069
Yes they invent illnesses and disabilities to be part of the club and how are these people ever going to grow if they're treated like they can do no wrong? It's impossible. It'll just make them a bunch of narcissists.

Also why are there so many libtards itt

>>208262
> College was once supposed to prepare young people for the real world. Now it's just an institution to keep people shielded from it.
Oof. I think you hit the nail on the head, there.

>>208324
NTA, but are we talking about countries or continents? Obviously there are pyramids in Mexico, but it seemed pretty clear that the two of you were discussing the U.S.

>>208093
You should avoid using the internet as a talking point. You're only getting the smallest, craziest yet loudest minorities for show. I don't think people are better or worse off, honestly.

Human mind is not evolved to function properly with too much information and volatile dopamine triggers that aren't tied to your real life outside a screen. Screw electronics, we are still too ape brained for that.

Sent from my PC.

people have had to endure less so they are less climatized to discomfort and because of toaster allegory are more prevalent

it was honestly pretty crazy seeing normies lose their absolute shit during covid over like… isolation and shit and not like, losing their jobs bc like

bro is this your first fucking struggle in your life… ever?

>>276625
Hard lockdown in the USA lasted a little over a month and everyone bitched about it SO much. Your ass had to sit at home on the couch for a month, boo fucking hoo.

>>208093
people who are resilient aren't gonna bitch about shit all the time, especially online so you don't notice them, meanwhile pissy people bitch all the day online instead of their diary

>>208095
lol right wing chuds are just as easily triggered

People from third world especially war zones are definitely more hardier. Professional soldiers that willingly volunteer and with the best training should not be crying about ptsd. It’s the innocent locals

>>208312
We're europeans, we had universities long before the gaggle of inbred protestants and drunks we shipped off even formed a country.

I would say yes because people are way more nihilistic and hopeless when it comes to basically everything nowadays. Centuries ago people had some motivation to get out of bed in the morning (dedication to their country, some kind of faith, care for their loved ones, etc.) but it’s all basically been burned out by now (every nation sucks in one form or another, people are losing the ability to believe in anything, there’s way more toxic families or people don’t care because all their loved ones are gonna die and so on)

>>303731
So what you're saying is people used to be woefully ignorant and now they're just being honest about life sucking generally?

>>208093
People are probably less resilient than they used to be, but it's not that we need to go backwards. Parenting styles need to change to have a more neutral approach to suffering, especially self-induced suffering. It's like pain tolerance. If a parent is attentive but neutral when their child, say, falls and scrapes their knee (that is, they help their child but don't telegraph to their child that they should have an outsized emotional reaction by gasping, yelling, etc), then that child is more likely to develop higher threshold for feeling distress from pain. Nothing about the actual, problem-focused response (cleaning the scrape and bandaging it) has to change, just how the incident and its emotional response is framed by the role model (parent). In the past, the response was often to yell at the child, punish them, or ignore them entirely while more recently over-comforting and coddling has taken over. Probably, this shift was a reaction to the cruel, callous, and abusive behaviors of baby boomers when raising their child.

>>303170
But the ones doing the rape are less likely to get PTSD. People who experience pleasure during acts of violence are much less likely to get PTSD. People who have strongly-held moral convictions are the people more susceptible to getting PTSD. The soldier who watches, powerless to meaningfully stop atrocities, will probably develop PTSD while the one who initiated the massacre will probably only care if they're forced to suffer consequences for it. During the My Lai massacre, Hugh Thompson tried to save civilians and spent the rest of his life with PTSD. There's a theory that PTSD can be broken down into a few categories and that the category most relevant to military PTSD is called "moral injury," where someone's entire value system, world view, or other deeply-held beliefs are compromised and the shattering of their mindset is what causes their PTSD. Evil people just don't care, good people who get recruited off the idea that they're actually going to protect people care so much it eats them alive when the other foot drops.

>>208093
No. It's simply the volume of stressors being greater now.

Human beings have a limited bandwidth for stress. I saw a lot of things growing up. I cannot now deal with most things. The things I have seen include many people dying, and that's less stressful than the abstract rules or expectations I am held to. One example I think of a lot is this one tunnel in Britain. They needed this long tunnel or whatever, so they paid a ton of random guys money, fed them beef and beer, gave them shovels and it got done. Now think to today, there would be hundreds of liabilities and exceptions, but this huge societal project was just done because it was made simple and fulfilling. Or like how guys used to sail from Britain to America to harvest beaver asses. Completely insane work, but the money was there and I'm sure it was adrenaline-junky stuff. There would be a lot of decorum involved compared to our modern day, but for women in the Victorian era there was like nearly two dozen types of specific maid you could be. To the point domestic servitude was the second-biggest sector of employment. Imagine an economy so relatively flourishing that so many people had hired help. I know it's more complicated than that, but it's all things being relative. Society worked for the society, not people for the companies. There's also stuff like how both men and girls are hormonally different from back then, men with less testosterone and girls hitting puberty sooner, and both full of microplastics. I'm very beaten down. I don't like how things work, or really don't. We have more production than ever, but we still have to do so much. Our success has lead to too many things being unoptimized, and the people pay the price with their wellbeing.

>>208096
Left-right is a meaningless distinction used to divide and conquer. It dates way back to Rome's rectus and sinistra.

Also assassinating presidents is kind of hard to pull off in this day and age as law enforcement is more competent than ever. And you need some kind of foreign backer to pay your living expenses.

>>303170
Think about the innocent soldiers who were just following orders to shoot the local children in the head and rape them before you talk about "innocent locals", bucko.

>>208164
They definitely weren't happier since the dominant view on the world was that it is hell and that you are only alive to be tested. Happiness is for afterlife.

>>305445
>law enforcement is more competent than ever
That's why I love cc, y'all never fail to make me laugh.

>>305445
The rate at which murderers are caught has degraded approximately 20% within my lifetime.

I am for sure.
Today earlier my brother came with me for my first archery competition, I got 4th place so to celebrate he took me to McDonalds, I asked for no pickles(don't like them) and I got a burger with pickles, I went back and the guy behind the counter was a really mean pimply faced high school kid, he made fun of me and told me I must have put in the order wrong, I went back and I was kinda sniffling, my brother asked what's wrong and when I told him he went in and yelled at them, they made another burger for free and the manager made the kid apologise and gave me red velvet cookies and a coffee.

>>306508
I drew how I imagined this

>>306508
You have a good brother. Although, I hope you are a high schooler too, because letting kids bully you is really bad. You need to learn to stand up for yourself.

>>306514
I'm turning 20 next month…
I've always been a shut-in with no confidence.
>>306510
My brother does kinda look like that, but he had a camo shirt on and he has a full beard, but yeah he's a 6' big powerlifter guy.

>>306517
when you have to confront someone, imagine that you hit people in the nose with your head, like, all the time, and that are really good at it. make this face.