niktemadur ,

Imagine how barren and bland the inner lives of these people must be.
It works like a cautionary tale. One of them "there but for the grace of God go I" type of deals.

BonesOfTheMoon ,

They've known each other since childhood. He grew up and she's jealous she didn't I guess. All Republicans are trash.

InternetUser2012 ,

Once again, another republikkklown doing something ILLEGAL. This CUNT needs to resign and face the courts for this shit.

iAvicenna ,
@iAvicenna@lemmy.world avatar

good to know that people with the mental age of college kids are running the US of Muricah

Pra ,

Lol

Link

JoeBigelow ,
@JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca avatar

Her office email is pretty easy to find just saying

Fizz ,
@Fizz@lemmy.nz avatar

What is pouring water in his bag supposed to do? Is she trying to destroy his electronics or just mildly annoying.

ShepherdPie ,

She wants to fuck with him but is to cowardly to do it to his face.

radicalautonomy ,

Man, I had a nickel for every time my mom told me "When a member of the Vermont House of Representatives picks on you, that means she likes you", I'd have, like, all these nickels.

Fizz ,
@Fizz@lemmy.nz avatar

Tfw no members of the Vermont house of Representatives secretly pour water into your bag for months on end. I guess they hate me.

intensely_human ,

It’s a gaslighting attempt.

He keeps discovering moisture in his bag, he’s gonna go looking for causes. No causes seem to make any sense, so then he starts thinking maybe bags are always moist and he never noticed before. Maybe not exactly this path, but it will be some escalating set of irrationalities developing as he tries to reconcile what he’s seeing.

Even when a person knows they’re being gaslit, unless they manage to escape the situation with concrete action, it will still degrade their sanity.

In this case, he was lucky enough that she was doing something that could be caught on film easily, and he was fortunate that he actually took the steps to figure out how it was happening.

In other words, he trusted his gut that it wasn’t accidental, and then he gathered evidence to resolve the ambiguity. He handled this correctly, and successfully escaped the damage that gaslighting normally causes.

shininghero ,
@shininghero@pawb.social avatar

To quote my parents whenever I was being disciplined for something immature, "Act your age, not your shoe size."

Aatube ,
@Aatube@kbin.melroy.org avatar

Big Foot spreading propaganda again

Lost_My_Mind ,

So, when I was 15, wouldn't age and shoe size been the same? I find 15 year olds are somehow dumber than 7 year olds......

sensiblepuffin ,
@sensiblepuffin@lemmy.world avatar

You wore size 15 shoes at the age of 15?

Lost_My_Mind ,

.........did you not? Physically by that age I was pretty done growing. Well. Except my stomach. I'm 40 now, and it keeps growing. But what am I SUPPOSED to do? STOP eating delicious bacon double cheeseburgers????!!!

Well.....actually, yeah. Turns out theres a new trend males getting colon cancer at younger ages. Look, I accepted that those foods weren't healthy. But I was always taught that the risk was you get real fat, and have heart problems later in life. NOBODY EVER SAID IT WAS GOING TO BE CANCER!!!

Well, yeah. Turns out cancer. So now I can't eat my favorite foods as much. Like.......drastically cut them out of my life. So instead of 3-4 cheeseburgers a day, now I have like one a month......and I went a whole year without them.

Guys. I think the FDA is letting things slip when my doctor went through 80-90% of my grocery shopping reciept and said "All of this needs to go. Most things pre-packed at the grocery store needs to go. I'm not even a fan of these cereals you bought."

God dammit, food. Why are you so delicious, but want to kill me? I just want to eat a hot dog injected with a glazed donut, fill the donut hole with a bite size snickers (sooooo .......after shrinkflation, basically a regular size bar), deep fry the whole thing as a corndog, and feel all warm inside as I somehow don't develop diabetes.......which is weird, because I'm fatter than my dad, who has diabetes, yet somehow my blood sugar is healthier. Even my doctor is like "You ate HOW much sugar, and have healthy blood sugar???? Dafuq???"

I don't understand it either.

secretlyaddictedtolinux , (edited )

this is by design

they allow small amounts of poison in food, then explicitly tell people it's poison through the media

there are articles about how people use energy drinks mysteriously die sooner while the ingredients iinclude B-12 in a form bonded to cyanide

there are too many people on the planet, it's causing global warming, and we need to find any way possible to reduce the population so we are less likely to all die

this is a very fair way of doing it. cigarettes will kill you, don't smoke them, available in stores everywhere. YOLO, keep drinking until you get liver failure. why not have some delicious highly processed fake food with gut bacteria killing preservatives that will fuck your stomach microbiome? all of the poisons take years to kill you because frogs boiled slowly don't jump out of the pot

it's awful but at least fair. we all get to "choose" and I put that in quotes because free will doesn't exist. I say this as someone who consumes poison and can't entirely stop despite knowing the consequences.

a good rule of thumb: if it's processed, it's poison, if it won't rot within a week unrefrigerated, it's poison, if you feel very high and happy immediately following consuming it, it's poison

it's hard because the right thing to do is drink water and eat vegetables and legumes and fresh things... but it's hard because they have made food in a way in which addictive drugs are integrated into the food, and it's not called that

i know that coffee is for stupid people, but i drink it anyway because im addicted. i end up in pain and miserable and just say "fuck it" and it makes my health worse.

Doof ,

That frog thing is false btw

secretlyaddictedtolinux ,

really?

carl_dungeon ,

That’s crazy, that sounds exactly like something a republican politician would do.

Badeendje ,
@Badeendje@lemmy.world avatar

I'll bet of you where to lookup former classmates a consistent pattern of bullying would be shown.

ryannathans ,

How the fuck is this shit newsworthy

intensely_human ,

It’s a US Congressperson engaging in gaslighting another US Congressperson. This is extremely fucked up.

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