Yes, it is nice that billionaires give away their money, it would be nicer if the people could choose how that money was spent instead of the billionaires.

Deceiving myself about what?

Yeah, all those qualities are a basic requirement to get a job. I have never worked with someone who didn’t have those qualities. There not something you can leverage to get a raise.

Negotiate alone with what leverage? We are all replaceable. As soon as they figure out it’s just you, they will fire you and pick someone else from the hundreds of thousands who have an equivalent skill set.

We need way less of them or way more of them. The wealth gap needs to be closed and I don’t care which direction.

Upvoating because it’s funny. Not because I agree with Walmart.

Step 1: Figure it out.

Step 1.5: Spread the word.

Step 2: Negotiate.

So if there was a instance called “obviously a bunch of Nazis” and we’re all openly Nazis. You would be fine with that? Or am I missing the point?

Hmm, down voted, but not many comments. It could be anything really. If I had to take a guess, it would be that I didn’t make Biden the black guy.

Because people like Communism and they don’t understand it, so dictators lie and say they are communist to get in power.

Yes it is hypocrisy, but honestly it would be more terrifying if he didn’t do it. What kind of robot would you have to be to feed you kid to the wolfs?

I’m surprised it took him so long.

Valid points, all of them.

So here is the dilemma I run into. Communication is error prone, but also the truth matters. So, when someone publicly posts something that I think is incorrect (maybe I am wrong maybe not), it can have a wide effect on a lot of people. So when I engage, I have to make a judgment call on whether or not a person is being genuine. If I respond a couple of times and the other person is not acknowledging my arguments or providing counter points. It could be many things:

• My argument is bad
• My argument is unrelated or off topic.
• I am wrong.
• I misunderstood or vice-versa.
• … (There is probably a million things here)
• It could be I have caused a stubborn and/or emotional reaction causing them to not back down.
• or it could be the person I am arguing with has bad intentions. They are willfully spreading misinformation.

Now I have to pick one and go for it because while the possible misinformation is being unchallenged it is spreading to people who are tying to figure stuff out. Note that it doesn’t matter what your intentions are, the damage done is the same for intentional or unintentional misinformation. So if I think it is you and not me and I think I am right, I need to be on the offence. I need you to counterpoint to a specific argument I made or I need to make you look stupid to either get you to counterpoint or prove to the average reader that if you had a counterpoint you would have used it instead of taking my shit.

This is why I started to insult you. I am sorry if it caused damage. My intent is not to cause damage unless the misinformation was intentional. I don’t know of course, but I don’t think you had any ill intent.

Your right, I don’t think your special, that was less of a lie and more of an insult. I don’t hate you, I think you are ok (witch is a better opinion that you have of your self), and I think you can get better. All this stuff is learned and is learnable.

Edit:

About the library ownership thing. I ignored it because I think my point is valid regardless of who owns the library. My issue was not with what the library did, my issue was in the framing of why the library did it. A framing you brought up.

I am sorry my dude. My brain doesn’t work like that, weather or not you believe me is immaterial. I wish you luck. I hope you know or eventually know that your value is intrinsic and not tied to anything you do or accomplish. The same thing is true about your daughter as you already know.

Also watch out for the negative self-talk. Words are powerful and using them negatively on your self is devastating.

I want you to get strong so you can kick my ass (In discussion) later. There are lots of things that I don’t know that I don’t know, that you know. I will need your help to get educated and stronger. It is hard to come by good arguments.

Same thing with hating. It is something only I can know. There is no evidence I can give to prove to you that I do or do not hate you. You should read the long post I wrote, you might find some helpful stuff in there.

I wasn’t lying.

How does anything I said prove that I was lying? How could I do anything to prove that I was or was not lying about that? I can’t, there is no evidence I could provide that would prove what is in my heart.

If I said “I was actually lying”, that statement could be a lie.

You: Not disagreeing with my arguments or providing a counter point.

Me: Not saying anything about my argument

You: “See this proves my point”

I don’t think you know how points work.

Yeah! Now we are talking man! That’s that lion! Bite the shit out of that zebra!

Ok, let me give you some pointers.

First off, no one knows what they are doing, everyone is doing their best, life is short. No ones best is enough, no ones life is long enough to do what they need to do. Everyone is messing up all the time. It is the human condition. The people who come out on top are those who make small manageable improvements. Did you not shit your pants today? Great job! Give yourself a star! Maybe you will never stop shitting your pants. Maybe you will. Who knows maybe shitting your pants will help you one day. Also 1000% billionaires are giving themselves stars for not shitting their pants.

Look at your situation. What do you need to do next? Gather evidence, make a choice. Was it wrong? No. Was the outcome bad? Maybe, but you didn’t know that before you did a thing. Now you have new evidence, make another choice. This is the waterslide we are all on. Oh, and guess what, if a bad happens to you, you may be traumatized by it. What’s the result? Your brain thinks avoiding a good situation is good instead of bad because the situation reminded you of the trauma. And there is nothing you can do about it. That’s life.

Why do you care if I am lying about “I have faith in you” or not. Don’t care. Stop caring. We don’t have time, you don’t have time. Take every complement at face value. Take every insult as coming from someone who doesn’t know what they are talking about. Life is too short.

Your brain and it’s feelings, they are not your friends. Your brain is trying to keep you alive in an environment that it wasn’t evolved to handle. Feel and share your feelings, they are real, but they don’t reflect reality or the facts of the situation. Use the rational part of your head as much as you can.

Life doesn’t make sense, stop trying to make it make sense. It’s your life, your water slide ride, you can choose to do with it what you will.

Edit: Except for me of course, I am perfect and have no flaws :D

I just said that you were a “special birthday boy” because it seemed to me that you think you are above the homeless societal issues. You never addressed any of my points. It’s like you never read any of my replies where I kept repeating myself that my problem isn’t that your wife removed benches.

Now, I agree, you are awful, right now. But you know what, I have faith in you. I know you got the stuff to do better. Work on yourself. Drop the birthday boy attitude and come back a lion! Don’t do it for me, do it for you!

Here, let me refresh your memory from your original post:

“The library here really did have to remove benches outside in a couple of places (in part) because of homeless people.”

"Unfortunately, some (far, far from most) of the local homeless around the library were either very publicly using drugs or getting so fucked up on those drugs (or possibly just having a really bad mental illness episode) that they were harassing people and scaring kids. "

So there was more than one person doing drugs? What is your point?

You know, your wife probably feels bad about removing the benches. She probably doesn’t claim that it had to be done. She probably tried to figure out how to keep the benches.

Does she know your posting this shit online?