Today especially has been pretty brutal. I see my dad for the first time in months and he dominates the conversation about his vitriolic hatred of Trump and anyone who supports him, calling them idiots. My girlfriend is sweet and nice but even knowing how I lean she can't help but say that she wants to go rip up Trump signs in front of people's houses and kill "transphobes". I've tried to curate my Twitter to be exclusively about my favorite game and content creators, but even after muting about two dozen political words and phrases it's just a bloody shouting match. It feels like the only time I'm not walking in a minefield is when I'm talking to a subsection of a group of friends who just like playing games. I went to cognitive behavioral therapy a few weeks ago, and it was really helpful, but even the positive thinking strategies that were effective just a few days ago aren't helping anymore. I don't feel suicidal, but I don't feel like living anymore. The two options of where I can live in the near future is chock full of people who have an open disdain/hatred for my thinking. Am I such a wretched human being for thinking that Trump's policies would be more economically sound and fair than Biden's? I apologize if this isn't the place to rant like this but how do I get past something like this?
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Have you considered joining the military? particularly the Marine Corps?
Even before the Left-wing craziness that envelops the country today, I had to deal with a lot of shit being a Bush supporter. It was similar to now where the media basically just shat on him 24/7 and society just demonized anyone who supported him. Not as extreme as now, but similar.
So I decided to put my money where my mouth was and enlisted. Since I supported a President that got us into a war. It was only fair I fight in that war.
Turns out the Marine Corps is based as fuck, and around 2014-2015 when there were talks of Trump running for President until I got out in 2017. It was basically one massive MAGA rally.
Once I was out, dealing with the negativity was pretty easy. I was so much more mentally resilient from the Marine Corps that it's just funny watching people rage at you for expressing your opinion. Especially knowing too that if they decided to swing at you, you could probably demolish them with ease.
Join the woke corps (compete with females and SHART training) to get killed on the inevitable war that is coming?
I would advise against that. Find a hobby, travel if you can but dint sell yourself to the state. Not to mention the job prospects after are poor. Marines literally staff gas stations.
I was in an infantry unit so wokeness was next to non existent for me. Maybe in super POG fields like admin that’s a thing but I never saw it. Is SHART the no rape training in other branches? We called it SAPR and it was basically these hilarious videos of what would happen if you picked the messed up option in those dating sim games.
I mean if you’re stupid going in, you’re gonna be stupid coming out. So it’s not like those people wouldn’t have been anything different even without enlisting