I agree 100%

Every new “feature” I see from Amazon makes me so glad I decided to wean myself off Amazon a couple years ago

https://lemmy.zip/comment/29299731

In my personal experience, especially in recent years, cashiers are often not even faster than self-checkout (though I’ve often experienced bagging pressure, lol). They’re either chatty extroverts who slow everything down because they’re socializing too much, or they’re new employees who don’t seem to know how to do their job yet (I assume this is prevalent due to high turnover, which is increasingly common).

“Butthurt” implies that I took your comment personally. I didn’t, because it wasn’t personal — it was a comment about the U.S., to which I feel no particular loyalty, and my issue with it is what pessimism like yours does when people express it out loud to strangers without offering solutions. Negativity akin to what you expressed has a paralyzing effect rather than a mobilizing effect.

Notice you answered my critique with a (poor) guess at the motivation behind my comment rather than a logical defense of your doomerism. Ad hominems only work on insecure people.

I really need people who say doomer shit like this to:

1. Reflect on whether their words encourage solution-oriented thinking, or doomer thinking

2. Learn emotional regulation

Considering I think Putin and his ilk can & should get absolutely bodied & the fact that you thought I was a fan of Xi, yeah, I’d say you’re making assumptions when you should be asking clarifying questions.

lol, no I don’t. Make fewer assumptions, ask more questions.

And I agree, Xi can fuck all the way off.

If you think I’m wrong, feel free to tell me why

I’m not talking about any country’s liberal party. I’m talking about neoliberals. In the U.S., they are often misidentified as being “the left”.

And regarding NATO, I am against it as a specific entity, but I think that some of its functions are important and should not be lost if it is ever dismantled.

Except liberals aren’t “the left”. Liberals are center or center-left at best. Liberals are funded by the same entities as the right is, yes, but this distinction is important, lol

Yeah, the actual left’s whole deal is fighting billionaires.

I really need everyone to stop conflating liberals with the left, and also learn some basic political theory before speaking on it.

I’m a lesbian, and even I need this to end