r/RedditForGrownups:

u/TheBodyPolitic1

I’ve heard so many things from the women in my life over the years, and read so many articles about women being attacked/abused I wouldn’t have viewed that woman’s post as being an overreaction. Maybe a tad, but just a tad.
u/TheBodyPolitic1

She was semi-retired and spending all her time online, but I thought she had friends that she could speak to. Inculcation. There is a documentary “The Brainwashing Of My Dad” about a guy who was loved by all in his life. He had to drive a lot for work. He started listening to right wing talk radio as that is all there was. He became an anger and hate fetishist. She didn’t turn right wing, but I had a friend who went on disability and went “chronically online” as they now put it. Turned into an angry person who bickered about everything she could find online. She even went to the comment sections on blogs she had no interest in to give people a piece of her mind.
u/TheBodyPolitic1

Unlikely you will talk him out of his bullshit. Sounds more like an acquaintance than a close friend. Drop him from your life.
u/TheBodyPolitic1

Right-wing extremist violence is more frequent and deadly than left-wing violence, data shows DOJ Quietly Deletes Study After Charlie Kirk’s Death That Says Right-Wing Extremists Engage in ‘Far More’ Political Violence
u/TheBodyPolitic1

Could be you are just tired and don’t have a lot of time. Work, spouse, kids are taking your energy and time. Many people feel less sociable when they are tired or have something on their mind – like work at a party at work.
u/TheBodyPolitic1

No, not weird. Trans people do it all of the time.
u/TheBodyPolitic1

Right-wing extremist violence is more frequent and deadly than left-wing violence, data shows DOJ Quietly Deletes Study After Charlie Kirk’s Death That Says Right-Wing Extremists Engage in ‘Far More’ Political Violence
u/TheBodyPolitic1

/u/West_Praline8534 many universities offer free counseling sessions to their students. You might want to consider taking advantage of that. You want to get your anxiety treated so it doesn’t cheat you out of enjoying your life. The counselling center of your university might also be able to give you a professional grade Strong Interest Inventory test. It was originally called the Strong Campbell Interest Inventory. You answer millions of questions about yourself. A grad student evaluates your answers. Your personality gets assigned a 4 character code. You then get given a list of careers with ratings showing how similar or dissimilar you are to people who are in those careers who enjoy those careers. With that list you can pick a field that you will be happy in and lucarative. I took such a test a lifetime a go. I held onto the results and everything it said about me turned out to be true. Good Luck.
u/TheBodyPolitic1

Without a framework to hold the bad ones accountable, they should all be treated as bad until the “good ones” step up to become that accountability system That sounds like the type of thinking behind your complaint about many mods just muting people, and never reconsidering their decisions.
u/TheBodyPolitic1

/u/Mairon12 impugning the adulthood of people because they wrote something you did not like is juvenile.