• Toribor@corndog.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    arrow-down
    16
    ·
    14 days ago

    I’ve never realized how young everyone on Lemmy must be until I came across this thread.

    “Just get a different job.” and “Both parties are bad.” are exactly the useless nihilistic asshole attitudes I had about things when I was about half my current age.

    • AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      6
      arrow-down
      5
      ·
      14 days ago

      lemmy actually tends to skew older than a lot of platforms (ive seen stats for this around just don’t have any on hand). the person I responded to above is actually one of the creators of lemmy. unfortunately, lemmy also skews towards chronically online and white, which means there’s a lot of those opinions floating around.

      • Toribor@corndog.social
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        arrow-down
        11
        ·
        14 days ago

        Yeah, probably an unfair take on my part to chalk it up to age instead of emotional maturity.

        Nihilism is just so unproductive. I used to think that attitudes like that were such a smart and obvious response to the absurd state of the world but it’s just an excuse to not engage with reality or accept personal responsibility.