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> Not my problem. I don't actually care about you. At all. And never will. I just like virtue signaling while being horrible to everyone poorer than me on some
by DaiPlusPlus 6y ago
> Not my problem. I don't actually care about you. At all. And never will. I just like virtue signaling while being horrible to everyone poorer than me on some bullshit excuse or other
I feel it's more like:
"I want to care about you, honestly - but I just saw the price tag and now I don't want to seem like I'm being committal while making awkward conversation and trying to find a way out of here, oh, would you look at the time!"
Groupthink-led virtue-signaling is real, but I feel lots of people are being earnest and well-meaning when they talk big, but are ignorant-of the costs of walking-the-walk.
- DoreenMichele 6y agoAt some point, looking good and doing good tend to part ways. You know someone's real values by which one they choose at that juncture. Far too many people double down on the looking good option wile being actively horrible. The degree to which I get downvotes instead of assistance for trying to make my life work when I talk about my firsthand experience is evidence of how common this is and it's gone on a lot of years. It's gone on long enough that I'm all out of patience for sympathetic explanations about how people mean well. When push comes to shove, far too many of them only want to be seen as good people and don't actually give a damn about anyone but themselves. That's the entire point of spouting nonsense they don't personally back up and walk the walk on.