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Brainwashed people thinking 2 parties exist is the greatest danger to humanity.

What’s the point of even posting something like this? /s

can't tell if that is sarcasm

🙄...so that's what's happening😲...Being Real and Authentic have become uncool and being a complete lie is very cool???

And it gets fucking harder every day

thank Gods I'm always genuine to an embarrassing degree then huh.

Genuineness comes with devotion to first principles.

sincerity is cringe and so am i

I cried at a lot of thtings in that game and how they did A PROMARE ON MY WADDLE DEEEESSSS AJNANJANHSDGVFHND

It is absolutely not silly, I cried there too and so did my partner

you can admit that yknow

..... You're asking if it is good to be a human who is capable of having art evoke feelings in them. That will never be a bad thing. Art is always going to be beautiful.

It shows you have empathy & heart. They can never take that from you.

allowing art, the really silly stuff, to touch you deeply, is human. I still cry sometimes listening to Power Rangers themes.

Absolutely

Unironically yes lol, as someone who also cries at very silly but heartfelt things

I wouldn't say I cried, but I absolutely involuntarily made a noise and pumped my fist.

Why the question mark absolutely

I was gonna write something pithy and challenging, but why bother? Nothing matters.

Technototalitarianism

These folks think of themselves as silly little goofs who do murder for laughs, so...

What people are really lacking is saying things sincerely without the joke part.

Unlike me, I’m a real absurdist.

more whimsy

“Absurdism” embraces the silly. 🤝

It is a challenge indeed. Learning how to be silly is a journey of the self.

it's like a gritty reimagining of that "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas" scene in the simpsons tbh

I'd say it's more the deliberate avoidance of the notion of truth. But I'm splitting hairs.

It makes me physically sick.

One thousand fucking percent. Nihilism is just carrying water for fascist toolbags

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES now please

If there was even hope to overthrow the power that is in time to prevent our extinction via climate and resource failure.

This is what Nietzsche tried to warn us against when he wrote "God is dead, and it is we who have killed him!" So many misread this as Nietzsche being triumphant. He was anything but. It was a warning against how this void would cause increasing nihilism and existential dread.

Take your hands off my intermittent coping mechanism

Same

I feel difficulty being genuinely positive about my (creative, inclusive, in a nice place, surrounded by smart and talented people) work around other people — it feels like I'm out of touch or toxic-positivitying things

I think it's still nukes actually but this is also a big and underrated problem

Never let them take your silliness.

I blame Joss Whedon and his writing style

Nihilism is how we cope with not having asked to be born.

When edgelordism just becomes... what, exactly? A post-truth, late-stage-capitalism, rotting of humanity itself?

I got cptsd what's everyone else's excuse? 😭

i feel like a lot of people have decided that being cringe is the worst crime you can be guilty of. i see it punished all the time, so much so that entire hate groups form around people. shit is wild!

We had a brief moment in like 2020 or so where we collectively realized that cringe culture is bullshit and being cringe is free Was that just a brief moment of clarity by one sub population after a lifetime of running away from cringe

youtu.be/DBnENlXt-H4?...

the only thing to actually have trickled down

Maybe? Never really thought about it. My guess is that bespoke pornography, economic disparity, and the internet are the problems. Esholon, Esholon, Esholon...free bespoke porn for terrorists asap. Let them relax. Epstien.

It's specifically the greatest danger to "Liberalism" because it leaves the door wide open for the most reactionary/backwards views because even though they are evil they give their followers some sense of meaning and belonging. "Earn a paycheck and die in an old folks home for the Dow" doesn't.

It is important and good to realize that nothing truly matters. Existence is cruel. But if nothing matters then the only thing that matters is what matters to you. If you can figure that out, that's your reason to exist. No gods or masters required. So? What matters to you?

I’m not sure you understand what nihilism actually is.

The end goal of all of this to bully you into losing your empathy, humanity and will to fight. That’s why living and enjoying life is the best way to shove it to them. The idea nothing matters is a toxic one particularly when it comes at a time when nothing matters more to us

lmao

lol

lol

Nihilism is just a step on ablonger road.

As an a former nihilist turned absurdist yeah I get it. Why care when those who could do something about our dying biosphere refuse to do anything about it.

Now you tell me; thought I was “adapting.”

it comes to this event and any others like it. Thank you Onion Person, for helping me reflect positively :) 3/3

does this count optimistic nihilism?

bsky.app/profile/rinr...

I agree with this but also don't let this lead into a toxic optimism or positivity, or even worse, a complacency with the problems of the world.

Yeah that's true but is it really worth it to be genuine?

We're on the path to some Khmer Rogue shit and it's enabled by fear and a belief that no one else will step up, it's hard to figure out how to go first or what to do

I understand why you see nihilism and inauthenticity as dangerous. At the same time, people can sincerely feel or adopt nihilistic views — it's not always affectation. Perhaps your point is really about the need for greater empathy and mutual support?

I am silly, I cry over little things. I hug my family and pets. When I was younger I tried to be a nihilist, but the silly little guy in me couldn’t be brought down.

No, tRumpism is

I agree, but what the hell do we do with all the morons and the way they vote?

whimsy and silliness are weapons we can use against said horrors. hold tight to your silly things, the behaviors that They™️ say don't matter, because they do, to you, and that can keep you afloat at a critical time. thank your appliances, sing to the plants, teach your dog how the dishwasher works.

Nothing matters and that’s why everything matters

In the '90s, there was a movie called SFW ('So Fucking What') about this. Starred Reese Witherspoon (1st movie role?) and Stephen Dorff, and featured Amber Benson. Benson (ironically, Tara from Buffy) shoots Dorff bc of his nihilism and shouts 'Everything matters' after she does so. She's right.

losers will be like "it's all meaningless anyway". yeah dipshit, that's why you have to give it meaning.

Is this how the world is? To be beaten and betrayed and then be told that nothing changes? It'll always be like this? If it's true what they say I'll be on my way But who are they to say what the truth is anyway? ... it isn't for the few To tell the many what is true - Hadestown

Or take the EEAAO approach, where “nothing mattering” means we don’t have to hold on to old ways of being that are hurting us. We’re free to find our own sense of purpose.

Everything Everywhere All At Once

I agree but as long as i'm depressed i will feel like nothing rlly matters

the purpose of life is to live

I will become kinder, freakier, and louder and everyone else doing the same is helping me keep morale up. 💙

Nothing ever happens dude gets depressed and turns into a nothing ever matters dude

Unless they're Ukrainians, in which case, you apparently think they don't matter.

Hell yeah. Fuck yeah. Thank you.

Spamton: Nothing matters... Jevil: Nothing matters!

very disco elysium coded words

I think we need to make liking Everything Everywhere All At Once cool again.

There is "nothing matters" and going out and smashing everything in front of you. And "nothing matters" where you sit down and immediately know how to appreciate the wind blowing through tall grass for what it is. But for 3,000 years mankind hasn't quiet figured out which one to go to

it almost felt like sincerity was coming back around until chatgpt took that voice

Were gonna ironically hipster our way down the path of infinity.

roflmao

This idea only works if you consider humans as a monolith, or creatures with universal pre-existing traits. Neither are accurate. The only thing close to universal about us is our instincts and those differ for everyone.

In the US do you mean? Thankfully you're only a small portion of humanity...

dipping one's toe into the pool of nihilism.

I agree, which is why I'm an optimistic nihilist and get annoyed when people use "nihilism" as a synonym for "pessimism," "cynicism," or "super pessimism/cynicism." To those who use it like that, the term "optimistic nihilism" sounds like an oxymoron, but it isn't at all.

I mean I still say that nothing matters but why does that itself matter I try to have fun and be silly I think that's good

Yeah

required followup

The internet subculture of edgy, anti-socialist nihilists over the past 10 years has been counterproductive as fuck

gilmore girls did this

I’ve only ever seen zoomers be ironypilled.

this was the entire message of superman oh wait a lot of people skipped it because they thought it was "woke", whatever it even means anymore

It only appears complete?

It's so easy to be a horrible person...

Being a nihilist is so fucking annoying to truly enlightened mf'ers, such as myself

Ok, but unless it's suppppper cringe though. Like I have a picture of a satanic cult leader in red lighting shirtless holding two blades, and let me just say, I cannot under any circumstances view that as not cringe. Also, cringe can be funny, like the office

Yeah but it opens a niche for the real ones like never before