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wednesday wrote

omg this reminds me of one of the worst things that ever happened to me:

i used to be on Facebook (yes i know, shut up) and one of my coworkers at the time joined some sort of cosmetics MLM, and she added every woman at the company to her new MLM group, including me. now, i almost never wear makeup, and i'm certainly never going to buy from some shitty scam company, so i had no interest at all in this group. but this woman was really nice and friendly and we got on pretty well, so i felt like i couldn't leave the group because it would be rude, and then there might be the sort of social awkwardness that i do everything i possibly can to avoid.

so from that day until i finally quit Facebook, i had to constantly see all these stupid posts about some stupid MLM that i hated, and there was nothing i could do to stop it. and that's the reason i now have a fiery hatred for all MLM nonsense.

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asterism OP wrote

Yeah as soon as someone joins an MLM they go on my "List of Annoying People" and there is no redemption for them and they deserve whatever rudeness I can muster. Which admittedly is mostly petty shit.

Because manipulating people with friendship is shitty imo.

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wednesday wrote (edited )

i wish i could do that, but i'm so desperate for the approval of other people and the fleeting sense of connection with another inhabitant of this doomed circus we call "reality" that i'm almost entirely incapable of being rude to or even disapproving of other people.

... i'm not even sure if this is sarcasm or just honesty. but i love your praxis and i hope you can throw more MLM shit in the bin in the future.

edit: as someone else pointed out, this applies equally to MLM as either a marketing scam or a Marxism.

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lettuceLeafer wrote (edited )

talk to me, so we can be friends. That sounds like a way more enjoyable experience than trying to appease normies to like you.

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wednesday wrote

i don't think you're scary but for some reason i thought you didn't like me. i like reading what you write though. even if i don't agree with it, it makes me think about why i don't, which is really pretty unusual nowadays.

should i join that voice chat thing y'all are doing?

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lettuceLeafer wrote

Oh, I'm pretty ambivalent about you. I don't think I've ever disliked you. But I disliked plenty of people and changed my mind. I'm not very rigid about that kinda thing. I'm glad u like my stuff.

U have to ask ass man, the one who talks too much. But I'm down to talk to most people just one on one. So if u wanna just voice chat I I can prob find a good time to do in on your schedule. I use jitsi so I just give u a link

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asterism OP wrote

Lol, you scare me.

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lettuceLeafer wrote (edited )

I don't understand? Does my comment sound scary? Or am I scary to talk to? Because I can understand me being scary to talk to lol

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asterism OP wrote (edited )

I was joking but I cant think of a way to explain it that sounds funny.

You arent any more scary than normal imo.

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