The Addiction To Being Outraged

Hypocrisy, denial of realty, and witch hunts

Ladislav Stercell

If you have to misquote someone out of context to make your point, you’re implicitly stating that you agree, or have no argument.

The same applies to ad hominem attacks, insults, and threats.

You have nothing.

Attention spans are limited and reading comprehension is stunted. A basic idea of what words mean has been lost, and with google, this is inexcusable.

People read the headline, the first few sentences, and their minds are made up. Most don’t even bother to continue to read, but if they do, they’re just looking for confirmation bias, and all of the information that contradicts their initial assumption is disregarded.

FOX News is the most watched “news” channel exactly because of this.

No one wants nuance or a dialogue. They’re addicted to being outraged—even by reality—because it’s easier than actually thinking or reading or admitting they’re wrong.

Increasingly this outrage has come from the left. The party of science and equality is just as willing to drop any science or reality that they don’t agree with.

The women I find the most physically attractive are in their late twenties, and most of them could pass for teenagers if they wanted, just as a lot of 16-year old girls or younger can pass for adults.

No amount of outrage is going to change this.

You concede this, and people attack you, even if you explicitly write to card and walk away if in any doubt.

I’m done responding to people who don’t have the guts to post their real pictures or names and feel free to insult whoever they want at their whimsy. That says a lot more about them than it does about me.

A few women agreed with me. One mother wrote she told her son to card every time, as she’d seen underage women ruin men’s lives. An adult asked her 16-year old daughter on a date in front of her—he thought they were sisters—and her daughter said sorry, I can’t, I’m only 16. The guy was embarrassed, but the mother told him it was okay. She was aware her daughter looked and carried herself like an adult.

Some have argued that I must be wrong because so many men and women are against me, but failed to notice the mangled comments. Many of the women who thought it was good advice to card or walk away had been bullied off the comments by them.

They want to inflict their perceived reality on the world. So sure, most of the people left are against me.

They made it that way.

Also, it is possible for a few peopled to be correct when everyone else is wrong.

One guy left a link to an article—I’m presuming similar to mine—and one woman—the latest leader of the witch hunt—commented that they should attack him next.

The teens who were against me suddenly had agency.

A woman said the article was rage bait and that it wasn’t even well written.

Do you know what that means to me?

Absolutely nothing.

The most pitiful part is that the most enraged continue to keep on restacking. They hate the article, but their need for attention outweighs that hatred.

Several women stated that they thought all men were the problem, patted each other on the back, and restacked.

Imagine replacing “men” with “black people” or “immigrants.”

This is bigotry, and if you wonder why Trump won or are disgusted by the statements of him and his followers—and I lean left pretty hard—it’s because extremists have more in common with each other than they do with the quieter, more mature majority who are willing to to discuss their issues and agree that we have 90% in common, and that’s enough.

One former Trump supporter engaged in a dialogue with me. He said he needed Kamala Harris and the democrats, but they didn’t need him, and I told him I could relate.

Of course I miss old girlfriends from high school, and there was more to those relationships than them just looking like adults. They were a lot more mature and honest than some of the women who commented who are decades older than I am.

Do you not remember your first kiss, or the first people you loved?

As stated in the article, I have trouble straying out of my generation. I have more in common with them, they’re less prone to extremism, and there are plenty of women around my age who are physically attractive, which while important, has to be accompanied by the compatibility to have interesting conversations, be straightforward when we disagree about issues without taking it personally, get along, and be decent people.

So keep on bashing, threatening, and defaming. Keep on doxxing and gaslighting. I’m sure that will lead to happiness and civil discourse.

As far as all of the men who “agree” with you.

Have you ever considered that they might be manipulating you?

If you want a dog who will pretend to agree with everything you say, that’s your option, but those relationships rarely work out.

Good luck out there, and if you want to keep on attacking everyone who offends you, keep at it.

Just recognize that you’re a part of the problem.