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Oh yes, that does look like fun the same way slamming your foot on the corner of a bedframe is fun.

I appreciate your openness on the subject and it helps other folks - keep on keeping on.

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Wow, mocking someone for health issues. That's really repugnant.

@Popehat Solidarity. ✊🏼

Went through something similar, came here and avoided the need to dunk on someone/thing.

@Popehat Someone being open about their mental illness makes me much more likely to listen to what they have to say.

Thank you, Ken!

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ITS A TRAP

I may never go back. Idk yet. I’m happy to run across you again.

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That screenshot makes me want to block someone on a platform I'm not using any more.

Thanks for helping to normalize mental illness.

@Popehat I looked, the Algorithm (my algorithm) had already fingered them as a fascist and they were already blocked. So instead I blocked all their followers.

My two main uses for Twitter are continuing to block fascists and handing Mastodon invites to people I know who are still active there.

@Popehat One of the (several) problems with this attitude is the way it's textbook ad hominem. "Argument X isn't worth hearing because its author has unrelated characteristic Y."

The very notion of hearing someone out, of evaluating arguments on their own merits, of following a chain of reasoning to draw a conclusion, is summarily, implicitly dismissed.

Instead we have an ethos informed by the too-serious fans of daytime soap operas, or the earnest watchers of pro wrestling. It's all just personality and projection.

@Popehat when i came out with my mental illness, it was immediately used to insult me. I always remind myself that people are going to use anything they can to hurt you. The insulting folks were probably hurt by someone in the same way and forever altered.

I appreciate your take on things.

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Buncha jerks over there.

Happy to be seeing you here. Don't go anywhere that makes life shittier.

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I remember EsoteriCD. That name alone being in there should be enough for anyone to nope the hell away.

@Popehat When in doubt I look to Forrest Gump for inspiration: “Stupid is as stupid does”

These are people who think it makes sense to put the completely unhinged “most stable genius” back in office for another 4 years. Pretty sure that delusional thinking will be classified in hindsight as “serious mental issues”.

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The people who think this sort of stuff is "fun" to respond to are just as miserable as the instigators, even if they don't realize it.

@Popehat Even setting "using mental health issues as a derogatory term" aside, I learned a very valuable lesson long ago:

There are a limited number of people whose negative opinion of you counts.

Depending on your circumstances, this might include close family, friends, your spouse, even co-workers. You know who is never included in the group of people whose opinion counts? Random people on social media sites.

Note, this applies to negative opinions. Compliments can be accepted from anyone.

@Popehat I'm sorry to hear about your depression. My own encounter with it was hellish, but fortunately brief. I can't imagine what you went through.

Twitter really does instill into people —even good people — a trolling mentality, where all that matters is scoring points against the enemy. The enemy they're scoring points against has exactly the same mindset. Both sides may think they're on the side of right, but both are involved in a vile game.

They know not what they do.

@Popehat I’ve always tried to balance my serious mental issues with my amusing mental issues. 😄 Had a lifetime trying.

Do your thing, Ken. You do good work.

@Popehat I abandoned twitter within seconds of seeing that dipshit show up with the sink. It couldnt have been clearer that taking vengeance and unleashing every shitty impulse was going to be the game going forward. I didn’t need help making that call, but I can honestly say that it was reassuring to see when you made the same call.

Mental heath is worth defending, and Musk’s and his damned websites’s patent and florid form of mental illness isn’t.