Dooming is
only worth it when you are able to laugh at it.
What many people fail to consider is that you don't have to be sad that things are miserable and anti-freedom. All you need is to
laugh at the crazy to prevent yourself from going crazy.
Yes, while I tend to type things in the Deep Thoughts section about the importance of freedom,
they're merely guidelines for myself that I don't order people to blindly follow. And I acknowledge my own
limitations in both age and experience. Furthermore, I rarely read the news because it's all garbage designed to make you miserable,
the fucking BBC of all companies had shows like Charlie Brooker's Newswipe which described this for-profit marketing machine in full detail. So I don't read or watch current affairs about the news unless something darkly comical happens.
Hell, most of the time, when I type anything, is to either piss people off and/or make them feel like shit. Because it's FUN, not because I feel like shit. It sure as shit beats throwing yourself into a train or buying a gun to blast your brains out.
Because like trying to start a revolution or even convincing yourself that failure precedes success, that kind of deluded behaviour is a waste of time and energy.
It's also why I type things on this forum that are basically obvious summaries, it's not only done to make others feel like shit (because, again, it's fun, Schadenfreude is FUN), it's also to at least give people
an opportunity to think for themselves. Boo Fucking Hoo if the world's going to shit, just live for your own sake.
If you can't do that or if you can't help yourself, don't bother helping others.
Yes, most people who ignore those who complain are the arbiters of their hubris and downfall, but at the end of the day, if WE don't get back up, other people will and what they do after that isn't our concern when we fall.
It's also correct that the current situation of Internet Freedom globally, even in North America is in the shits and global infrastructure is in the shits. But you know what I do?
Once I've described the misery, I take the time off to do something I like, such as exercising, drawing, playing games, and talking to people, the main crux to take here is that
I don't constantly think about every fucking shitty thing that's happening, even if there's no light at the end of the tunnel(there never is, and anyone who's telling you otherwise is a liar, liars who will take advantage of any person's desire to be positive at a moment's notice, but again, story for another day), in fact, if I see a thread that I know will make me more miserable and angry than I can reasonably control myself,
I just don't read it.
This is actually something I recommend to anyone who sees a thread that they'll know will be pissed off by it: DON'T FUCKING READ IT, DUMBFUCKS! It's that easy!
By having fun here, you're contributing to the decline of potential lolcows spawned from this forum. We already have enough people with page counts in their megathreads in the hundreds (and even in the multi-thousands) range and if you want to enjoy life normally, don't give in to your confirmation biases and become a lame wannabe incel/femcel/doomposter/straw-nihilist.
The Internet is not an asylum, contrary to popular belief and the associated increase of insane trends and activities spawning from the Internet.
I joined the forum because hypocrisy interests me, and people interest me,
especially eccentric people. This was after months of reading threads and arguments that entertained me because most of them had a ton of good humour to them, even when what was being discussed was very grim and tragic (the Shmorky thread, in particular, was especially dark, but Dave Kelly's Michael Jackson-sounding goof-fuck voice kept me laughing).
Bitching like the very soyboys you mock is pathetically hypocritical and A-Loggy. I found that out when I nearly fell into that miserable trap during the whole S230 Repeal bullshit, which fortunately didn't happen.
In fact, after that debacle, it's only gotten worse because most of the long-term users moved on and now you have edgetard wannabes in their place. Wannabes who think that being a miserable fuck and treating the entire Internet as a hugbox will solve their butthurt sad sads (Spoiler: It fucking doesn't). It's not helped by the occasional instance when Josh makes a doom-centric post here on this forum or laments about something on one of his streams. So I just don't allow that shit to get to me, I'm no longer a teenager when I began this account in 2016, and the adult thing to do is not wallow in shit, but
swim with the current and climb out of the shoreline.
Another thing to prevent yourself from going full straw-nihilist is by taking the steps to improve yourself after being honest with yourself and not giving in to hedonistic biases that will make you perpetually and comfortably miserable.
That same hedonism and comfortable misery led to Richard Kyanka killing himself out of cowardice. And that same level of doomer-fueled misery and the self-fulfilling belief that you are alone because people don't support you is what led to Alec Holowka killing himself. Don't end up like them. Because that's a massive waste of time.
Getting a job that you like also helps, same with doing a hobby that keeps your mind stimulated for more challenges.
And as Autistic as it sounds,
TL;DR: Smile and enjoy things.
Like this cute, little bundle of joy.