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[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 46 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] Beluga@hexbear.net 35 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Too late I’m ripping into him, you should’ve commented sooner

[–] BlueMagaChud@hexbear.net 42 points 8 months ago (1 children)

you should bully him for being an idealist

"Sure dad, I'll 'envision' in one hand and shit in the other and see which fills up first"

[–] Beluga@hexbear.net 37 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I did but he gets deeper into it

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 40 points 8 months ago

Oprah and Doctor Phil and their consequences...

I still vaguely remember back in the day when Oprah platformed "the Secret" and brought all this "manifesting" drek in to public view. Oprah has used her massive viewrship to cause incomprehensible damage over the years.

Her story really would be fascisating from a Marxist perspective. The way her platform gave her such an enormous soap box from which to steer and influence culture, and the ways that she and the systems that supported her show chose to use that soap box.

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 19 points 8 months ago

Do you think the half a million children who die of malaria every year simply fail to believe in themselves hard enough? Or are we subject to physical reality?

[–] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ask him if he thinks that would work for Palestinians in Gaza

Or just tell him to refer to this emoji as a rubric for when idealism works vs doesn't us-foreign-policy

[–] Beluga@hexbear.net 21 points 8 months ago

Already asked him if he supported Palestine and the first sentence was “it’s difficult”

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[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 39 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

furthest-padded sentence I can read before hearing Kamala voice it over

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Honestly it's within the range of well intentionedness that I can hear okay-okay saying this while he fails to solve a children's puzzle.

[–] IvarK@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 8 months ago

Then he’d laugh and yell at chat for not eating veggies with theird tendies

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[–] oregoncom@hexbear.net 36 points 8 months ago (2 children)

He has good intentions you shouldn't get mad at him.

[–] Beluga@hexbear.net 26 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I just want him to see me more than he does. He doesn’t come around he doesn’t call he just gives me pseudo motivation from an idealist perspective

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 17 points 8 months ago

Yeah, it's kinda like zen philosophy. If this is someone's response when you're sobbing over losing your job it's shitty, but when it's a one off comment in a vacuum, it's well-intentioned and innocuous.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 35 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 17 points 8 months ago

Charlie Kirk if his face was normal sized

[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 32 points 8 months ago

Tell him you really really want laser vision and flight

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 25 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You can do what you want to do if you do it. - Michael Jordan

[–] buh@hexbear.net 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

If I can see it, then I can do it

If I just believe it, there's nothing to it

–R Kelly

[–] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 16 points 8 months ago

🍆💦👶

-Also R Kelly

[–] Moonworm@hexbear.net 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You play this website like a fiddle.

[–] Beluga@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months ago
[–] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

My dad sends pictures of flowers with Bible verses or similar platitudes on them. And he does it to everyone constantly even at weird hours and even if they never respond. Most of us don’t have him blocked. I have him blocked because he crossed some major boundaries and I no longer trust him to make safe decisions around me.

So if this is the worst of it then, no, you probably shouldn’t block him. Without further context, this is annoying at worst. Also, by “block him” do you mean going no/low contact or do you mean literally just blocking his phone number and interacting with him as normal otherwise?

[–] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 16 points 8 months ago

kinda hoping to be an american stalin type figure but i kinda blew my early 20s by not robbing brinks trucks and banks

[–] miz@hexbear.net 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

"son, you can walk to the moon if you want it hard enough. no, I'm wise and experienced not an utter fool, why do you ask?"

[–] Barx@hexbear.net 15 points 8 months ago

There's a good chance this is the kind of stuff that gives him hope and he just wants to share that. Even if it's annoying.

PS texting is a bad way to have disagreements, I def recommemd having a real convo if you want to push back on what is basically new age karma, which itself leads to victim blaming if one is logical about it.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 14 points 8 months ago

Calvinism and its consequences

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 13 points 8 months ago

Ask him if someone who dies in a car crash just wasn't desiring hard enough

[–] Gorb@hexbear.net 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Need to shower with him more

[–] T34_69@hexbear.net 14 points 8 months ago

So many dads, so little time.

[–] hexthismess@hexbear.net 13 points 8 months ago

Tell your dad you are envisioning the collapse of capitalism sicko-yes

[–] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 13 points 8 months ago

'Triumph of hope over mathematics'

[–] QueerCommie@hexbear.net 12 points 8 months ago

Imma be the next Lenin.

[–] Commiejones@hexbear.net 11 points 8 months ago

"Hey dad, I have been thinking and I envision a life where my father doesn't send me stupid self help book style lies without having to block him and cut off all contact. You think that's achievable?"

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 11 points 8 months ago

I know it sounds cliche

THAT'S BECAUSE IT IS, FUCK "THE SECRET" AND FUCK SECULAR CALVINISM guts-rage

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 10 points 8 months ago

I desire mercing my landlord and by gum, he's right. brb

[–] adultswim_antifa@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago

It's nice that your dad is encouraging. Lots of people don't have dad's that encourage them. But I agree with other people that following your dreams leads too easily to career based sense of self, which is not healthy and gets even less healthy as late stage capitalism progresses to degrees of lateness we cannot currently imagine. But it is never healthy to derive self esteem from work.

[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago

thanks dad.

death to america

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago

I dunno, I have a pretty good imagination. I can envision myself retiring in luxury on the Moon.

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