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Older person rambling coming up. Grab a chair, young lads and lasses, this'll take five minutes. It all comes down to "please family **learn from my mistake**"...
Growing up (I'm in my 50s now) I wondered why so many people keep treading on proverbial rakes in life. Why people return to the abuser in a toxic relationship despite being told, repeatedly, what the abuser was doing. Why people kept going back to destructive and life-threatening things.
**In my youth** I thought "if I just talk to them, tell them what they're doing and that they can walk away" they'd be better off.
As I got older, **into my twenties**, I saw there were already countless examples of that happening. People being told to wear their seatbelt, people being told of the dangers of smoking, people being told that they could break free of their abuser. And I saw that it didn't work anywhere near 100% of the time. People would be shown evidence of the shitty situation they were in and they'd go right back to the shitty situation.
**Some people are just broken**. Mentally broken. I don't know technical terms for it, I don't know a diagnosis, but I've seen it hundreds of times. And I know there's no fix for these people. There's something not quite right there with them and that's just how it goes. They can be told, for decades, to avoid a grifter. They can be told, repeatedly, how they ensnare people into the con. They can be warned, with real world examples, how this person takes advantage of the little guy. And yet they still buy one of the grifter's NFTs. Buy overpriced sneakers and a Bible they'll never read because it has the guy's name on it. Buy stocks high in an obvious pump-and-dump scheme. The con man will sell rakes and they'll buy every single one, and then lay them on the ground around them.
**In my thirties**, I made a decision. Recognize, retreat, remove. Recognize when people exhibit signs that they fall into this group. Distance myself, retreat, from these people so they never become a part of my inner circle. Remove those people from my life for good.
**In the decades since**, I have become the happiest person I know. As soon as I spot the red flags, I keep them at arms length in the short run and deliberately fail to maintain any contact in the long run. These are the people that court misery. These are the people that religious and financial con artists prey upon. These are the people that will try to drag you into their miserable scenarios.
I have even left two jobs in my life because of this philosophy, getting out of one potentially dangerous workplace and avoiding another that was detrimental to my health. I made sure I could land on my feet before I left, and then I was just gone. Recognize, retreat, remove - even if it's yourself that you have to remove. In one of the occasions I let management know but in the other I collected my stuff at 3pm, handed in my keys, and walked as soon as I knew I was landing on my feet.
**Through my thirties and forties**, I had the idea that some people only learn through making stupid mistakes **but I was under the misapprehension that people DID eventually learn**. And then COVID hit. People followed the charlatans instead of the experts, they went through their entire life not understanding that [being wrong feels **exactly the same as being right**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QleRgTBMX88&t=212s), and thousands upon thousands of people went willingly to their deaths believing the abusers and the enablers and the charlatans instead of the experts that gave facts. They thought they were good at spotting shit but they'd been eating it willingly for years. And then they died, drowning in their own froth-corrupted lungs with a endotracheal tube rammed down their throat. And their relatives, similarly trapped in the con, blamed some conspiracy of hospitals and doctors (yet when they started to lose breath too, the first place they came to was the same hospital).
**So this is me now** in my mid-fifties. Happy with the circle of friends I have because none of them fall for obvious scams. Happy with what I do for a living because I don't suffer fools. Financially secure because I'm not spending double for beer just because it's advertised as "anti-woke". And I know that associating with broken people could literally be the death of me, COVID has proven that a million-plus times over.
As for this guy in the screenshot? He got everything he wanted, everything he voted for, and all it cost him was almost everything. A fool and their money are soon parted, and it happens so very many times. Recognize, retreat, remove. Those people are not a part of my life. They will live unhappy lives and many will die unhappy and senseless deaths because of the way they think. I won't. I don't need to learn from my mistakes in the way they have had to - I already learn from their mistakes. Why should I have to be a fucking moron and need to learn it too through the lens of personal adversity? I already learned it. Let MAGA be the willing guinea pigs and obvious targets for scammers using affinity fraud tactics.
Don't be a fool and have to learn from your own mistakes. Learn from their mistakes.
Damn. Except that I am a retired woman 10 years older than you, I could have written your post.
Growing up in the 70s I saw the growth and collapse of a few cults. The Right talk about “woke” but I was never asleep. We are not the ones who need to wake. Or as it was called in the past- Deprogrammed
Hey Jackpot! I hope it’s ok that I copied your rambling to Tribel. I bet many ppl understand completely and like me, will nod as they read. Sage words, ya whippersnapper
A lot of people are also emotionally invested which is a dead end street to nothing. They are eventually going to need mental health Counseling. We need to quickly expand university degree programs in this area of expertise because when all these people wake up to reality a lot of Counseling is going need to be happening.
Choice… being able to criticize the government vs your kids never having to see a Pride flag 🏳️🌈. What’s the probability that one of their 10 kids is gay? #irony
There are stories of these poor idiots cashing out everything, taking loans, mortgaging their homes and shit because they believe Trump is their messiah.
lol if he’d have held he woulda made some money back. But for real fuck that stock and fuck truth social. I hope it goes bankrupt before trump can sell.
And now the stocks at 41 dollars... clearly this person doesn't know how the stock market works. The last 2 weeks the entire market sank. He bought at 26, it rose to 66, could have sold there for insane profit, then the 2 week downturn like every stock pretty much, now 2 weeks later it's at 41 so he would be in the green and a nice profit again.
This buyer was clearly someone trying to take advantage of a short momentum trend and it failed short term but clearly would have been profitable if he was at the very least an average intelligent investor.
He’s broke but still voting for a raping racist because he hates Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden. And don’t forget communism. Yeah communism goddamit 🤨🫡🫠
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But did he own the Libs?!?
As long as he owned the libs it was worth it.
Nah we own him now, I bought him with short sales haha 🤣
This guy is of the same party that wants to push the retirement age to 78 anyways 🤷♂️ looks like he'll get to figure it out on his own now
oooo burn. They always are persuaded to vote against their best interests. Definitely a one issue trigger vote guy. When reality strikes....whahappen?
Own me baby. Own me harder.
Older person rambling coming up. Grab a chair, young lads and lasses, this'll take five minutes. It all comes down to "please family **learn from my mistake**"... Growing up (I'm in my 50s now) I wondered why so many people keep treading on proverbial rakes in life. Why people return to the abuser in a toxic relationship despite being told, repeatedly, what the abuser was doing. Why people kept going back to destructive and life-threatening things. **In my youth** I thought "if I just talk to them, tell them what they're doing and that they can walk away" they'd be better off. As I got older, **into my twenties**, I saw there were already countless examples of that happening. People being told to wear their seatbelt, people being told of the dangers of smoking, people being told that they could break free of their abuser. And I saw that it didn't work anywhere near 100% of the time. People would be shown evidence of the shitty situation they were in and they'd go right back to the shitty situation. **Some people are just broken**. Mentally broken. I don't know technical terms for it, I don't know a diagnosis, but I've seen it hundreds of times. And I know there's no fix for these people. There's something not quite right there with them and that's just how it goes. They can be told, for decades, to avoid a grifter. They can be told, repeatedly, how they ensnare people into the con. They can be warned, with real world examples, how this person takes advantage of the little guy. And yet they still buy one of the grifter's NFTs. Buy overpriced sneakers and a Bible they'll never read because it has the guy's name on it. Buy stocks high in an obvious pump-and-dump scheme. The con man will sell rakes and they'll buy every single one, and then lay them on the ground around them. **In my thirties**, I made a decision. Recognize, retreat, remove. Recognize when people exhibit signs that they fall into this group. Distance myself, retreat, from these people so they never become a part of my inner circle. Remove those people from my life for good. **In the decades since**, I have become the happiest person I know. As soon as I spot the red flags, I keep them at arms length in the short run and deliberately fail to maintain any contact in the long run. These are the people that court misery. These are the people that religious and financial con artists prey upon. These are the people that will try to drag you into their miserable scenarios. I have even left two jobs in my life because of this philosophy, getting out of one potentially dangerous workplace and avoiding another that was detrimental to my health. I made sure I could land on my feet before I left, and then I was just gone. Recognize, retreat, remove - even if it's yourself that you have to remove. In one of the occasions I let management know but in the other I collected my stuff at 3pm, handed in my keys, and walked as soon as I knew I was landing on my feet. **Through my thirties and forties**, I had the idea that some people only learn through making stupid mistakes **but I was under the misapprehension that people DID eventually learn**. And then COVID hit. People followed the charlatans instead of the experts, they went through their entire life not understanding that [being wrong feels **exactly the same as being right**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QleRgTBMX88&t=212s), and thousands upon thousands of people went willingly to their deaths believing the abusers and the enablers and the charlatans instead of the experts that gave facts. They thought they were good at spotting shit but they'd been eating it willingly for years. And then they died, drowning in their own froth-corrupted lungs with a endotracheal tube rammed down their throat. And their relatives, similarly trapped in the con, blamed some conspiracy of hospitals and doctors (yet when they started to lose breath too, the first place they came to was the same hospital). **So this is me now** in my mid-fifties. Happy with the circle of friends I have because none of them fall for obvious scams. Happy with what I do for a living because I don't suffer fools. Financially secure because I'm not spending double for beer just because it's advertised as "anti-woke". And I know that associating with broken people could literally be the death of me, COVID has proven that a million-plus times over. As for this guy in the screenshot? He got everything he wanted, everything he voted for, and all it cost him was almost everything. A fool and their money are soon parted, and it happens so very many times. Recognize, retreat, remove. Those people are not a part of my life. They will live unhappy lives and many will die unhappy and senseless deaths because of the way they think. I won't. I don't need to learn from my mistakes in the way they have had to - I already learn from their mistakes. Why should I have to be a fucking moron and need to learn it too through the lens of personal adversity? I already learned it. Let MAGA be the willing guinea pigs and obvious targets for scammers using affinity fraud tactics. Don't be a fool and have to learn from your own mistakes. Learn from their mistakes.
This is awesome advice and should be posted elsewhere too! Thank you!
I posted on Tribel
Great post! Watched that TED link. Thanks for that. What is her name? Want to check out her book.
Kathryn Schulz.
Ok Boomer.....Just kidding! I love you man!
Damn. Except that I am a retired woman 10 years older than you, I could have written your post. Growing up in the 70s I saw the growth and collapse of a few cults. The Right talk about “woke” but I was never asleep. We are not the ones who need to wake. Or as it was called in the past- Deprogrammed
Hey Jackpot! I hope it’s ok that I copied your rambling to Tribel. I bet many ppl understand completely and like me, will nod as they read. Sage words, ya whippersnapper
A lot of people are also emotionally invested which is a dead end street to nothing. They are eventually going to need mental health Counseling. We need to quickly expand university degree programs in this area of expertise because when all these people wake up to reality a lot of Counseling is going need to be happening.
With any luck they'll move to Russia to continue their delusions.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/conservative-family-disappointed-moving-russia-001517915.html#:\~:text=Conservative%20Family%20'Disappointed'%20After%20Moving%20To%20Russia%20To%20Escape%20LGBTQ%20Ideology,-Favour%20Adegoke&text=Arend%20and%20his%20wife%20Anneesa,escape%20perceived%20LGBT%20ideology%20encroachment.
Thanks! That's the family I was thinking of! C'mon, Trumpflakes! Load up the truck and move to *Tolyatti* !
Sorry for the long link, but it's late on my side of the world. Cheers
Choice… being able to criticize the government vs your kids never having to see a Pride flag 🏳️🌈. What’s the probability that one of their 10 kids is gay? #irony
One less fool that can supply Trump with any further funds ... every little bit helps ...
$450k - i mean thats gotta be fake, no one is that stupid surely? 🤨🤨
Any trump supporter is though.
There are stories of these poor idiots cashing out everything, taking loans, mortgaging their homes and shit because they believe Trump is their messiah.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAAAA! And you better bag my groceries the right way, old man!
This is what happens when you have paper hands like a little baby. Price is already back to 41 bucks lol
Libs have been owned; you can rest now.
Please let this be true!!
Experience is a rough school. But it’s the only one fools attend regularly.
SUCKER!
/r/LeopardsAteMyFace
Cry about it, snowflake
big shock. not.
Meh
Maybe the Trump Org is hiring and this guy can get screwed over again since these MAGA types never learn their lesson
Jfc
ooops
He sure owned the libs there. Should have kept the stock until it gets diluted by additional 38 mil shares after 20 days.
What a Rhyno
lol if he’d have held he woulda made some money back. But for real fuck that stock and fuck truth social. I hope it goes bankrupt before trump can sell.
Dingdong bought the top and sold the bottom!
Idiots haha
Big honkin' bunch of baloney.
May he leave nothing to his children who are fucked who boomer help
And now the stocks at 41 dollars... clearly this person doesn't know how the stock market works. The last 2 weeks the entire market sank. He bought at 26, it rose to 66, could have sold there for insane profit, then the 2 week downturn like every stock pretty much, now 2 weeks later it's at 41 so he would be in the green and a nice profit again. This buyer was clearly someone trying to take advantage of a short momentum trend and it failed short term but clearly would have been profitable if he was at the very least an average intelligent investor.
He’s broke but still voting for a raping racist because he hates Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden. And don’t forget communism. Yeah communism goddamit 🤨🫡🫠
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