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The parasocial relationship thing is just fuel to the fire. It may not be the cause, but that doesn't make it any less dangerous. Angry right wing conspiracy talk is like bait for people with these kinds of mental health concerns. It won't turn just anyone violent, but it obviously has served as the breaking point for a lot of people.

I'm sure the average person is totally capable of doing that, or even knowing about it /s. Jfc.

Why is it that whenever a corporation loses or otherwise leaks sensitive user data that was their responsibility to keep private, all of Lemmy comes out to comment about how it's the users who are idiots?

Except it's never just about that. Every comment has to make it known that they would never allow that to happen to them because they're super smart. It's honestly one of the most self-righteous, tone deaf takes I see on here.

I've been surprised and super disappointed by a lot of the views I've been seeing in Lemmy comments lately. Anti homeless, judging addiction, fairly socially conservative, buying into the whole retail theft narrative, and the worst has been the misogyny framed as "realism" or some shit.

I don't know, it's not for me.

Instead, it is their sense of self-entitlement that is causing the problem

Comments like this have always sounded so much more entitled to me than a worker expecting a paycheck. Boomers and C suites bitching about their employees' desire to adequately support themselves on their wages doesn't strike you as being just a little entitled?

Is there some part of this that you think doesn't fit into free market capitalism?

This might be the most passive aggressive comment I've ever read.

The answer of course would be "not working for someone else."

I'm also witnessing their workload and demands on them being smaller than what it used to be (already at school), and their work conditions being greatly improved compared to previous times

This is exactly the kind of "back in my day" invalidating, subordinating bs that many workers, not just gen z, are sick of putting up with. No one wants to be talked down to, or to have to put up with constant boomer finger wagging. On the other hand, it's obvious when people talk like this that they're unable to accept how much things change, and regardless of age, shows how out of touch they are with what the average worker puts up with.

I'm sure the people (and children) working in factories in the industrial revolution probably had it easier than those who came before them too. Maybe they were spoiled for fighting for an eight hour workday and safety regulations /s

Millennials are some of the first to have to be "always on" with constant emails, and Slack, and companies monitoring their every move on their phones and laptops, and hiring managers scouring their social media before agreeing to hire them, people getting fired for having OF pages, and having to constantly post bs all over LinkedIn just to stay relevant since there's no way they'll be able to keep the same job for more than a few years. And that's just at their main job, nevermind the two other app-based "hustles" they're forced to have that pay less than minimum wage. Just because the demands are different doesn't mean they're any lower, nor any better.

Except you know they'll just turn around and go "ThIs HaPPeNeD uNdEr BiDeN!"

Or it's just the only identifying information the media had at the time? Not everything is "missing white woman syndrome." This is the second article I've seen recently with one of these comments.

While I agree for the most part, you don't think that maybe in this case it's because:

It involves Munchausen's by proxy which is a pretty rare diagnosis,

She endured years of horrific medical, mental and physical abuse by the mother which brings up some serious moral questions in terms of what else she could have done to escape,

She didn't actually commit the murder, it was the boyfriend she met online who is intellectually disabled and is now serving a life sentence.

Idk, that sounds like enough to make a headline without her gender or skin color brought into it.

If you actually want cheap shitty pizza, then at least go to Little Caesars and only pay $5 for it

I'm pretty sure they don't get paid anywhere near what they're worth. Same old story in the US: anything that's important to society, has to do with people's health, safety, education, and so on.