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re: language PSA ("simp"), New York Times link 

@RainierBeringer@meow.social @LexYeen@snouts.online oh goodness, we've not heard "carelord" before but that sounds extremely emblematic of the kind of "caring about things is Bad" rhetoric you see from places like 4chan
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re: language PSA ("simp"), New York Times link 

@Felthry @RainierBeringer @LexYeen ...why... why would caring about things be bad...

/what/, society.

re: language PSA ("simp"), New York Times link 

@IceWolf @RainierBeringer@meow.social @LexYeen@snouts.online i mean that's what some far-right stuff has been saying anyway. and a depressing number of white leftists, most of them techbros, of the "cold logic is the only truth and emotions are weakness" variety
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re: language PSA ("simp"), New York Times link 

@Felthry @RainierBeringer @LexYeen Emotions are like... the whole point!

You do things /because you care/, not because of Cold Hard Logic.

at least is how we see the world.

re: language PSA ("simp"), New York Times link, CW: brain injury mention 

@IceWolf @Felthry @RainierBeringer@meow.social @LexYeen@snouts.online There have been cases (at least one that I can track down, because I heard it reported) of people who get their brain's emotional centers damaged and become so logical that they can't make decisions because they no longer feel strongly about anything.

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