Anon tries making friends on 4chan

Remember:
"4chan is where actually intelligent people pretend to be stupid morons, and Reddit is where actually stupid morons pretend to be intelligent."
- The only people that believe that crap are 4channers dumb enough to believe that being an amoral asshole makes you smart. The reddit thing is true though.
  
  For a while I was living in a student dorm in a student area. I was taking a walk when I saw one of those:
  Not that particular piece of paper but one with the same text. Took me 2 minutes of googling to trace it back to /pol/.
  I'm an atheist and ex Muslim, Islam ruined a large portion of my life... but I took that paper down anyway. Random person had the right to hang it on the street and I had the right to crumble and recycle it.
  The statement itself wasn't the triggering part... The triggering part was 4chaners think they are smart or making some kind of "point" with a quipy and short sentence... hanging out behind a screen trying to affect the real world outside even though they often claim not to be social or get any sun at all. At least that sad 4channer got to take a walk to hang this up. It was confusing more than offensive, had to read it a few times to even get it lololol
  
  Shut up and let me quote crime statistics at you.
- Maybe a few decades ago. Right now 4chan is an actual cesspool, not a fake one anymore.
  
  it’s been a cesspool since 2003
  
  When has 4chan been not a cesspool? Its just that once a decade they decide to weaponise their autism and do something massive.
- 4chan but with communists
  
  A secret so far, so keep your goddamn voice down!
  
  That's exactly what most people would say if you mentioned Lemmy to them.
  
  Nuanced enough that you can stereotype by instance!
  
  Lemmy balls LMAO gott'em
  
  Foss fan club
  
  Mostly dumb people who are mostly aware they are dumb
  
  The "best" of both worlds, i.e. dumb people pretending to be smart people that pretend to be dumb.
  
  That is exactly the problem with Lemmy. People don't know about Lemmy.
  
  The Flint to Reddit's Detroit
- Damn double whammy I feel personally attacked
- You could stay away from moron subreddits pretty easily but maybe moron interests and your interests match.
  
  Everything is a moron subreddit. Sometimes it's worse the more niche you go.

Be me
A third-worlder
Read about issues in lives of internet stranges
first_world_problems.exe
mfw
I don't know what I expected. People stuff themselves in trucks and boats to come to your countries in search of a better life. Have some perspective.
- If people don't have problems they invent them.
  Feel fortunate everyday I happened to be given the circumstances I was. Could have been born in Russia and be dying in the cold while my death is televised to electronic music.
  Perspective, and getting out of your own ass, are quite useful lol.
- The sad thing is that most who do make such travel to the first world wont be able to find a better life here at all.
  Its a misperception created by the economic propaganda politicians use to make themselves look good, sure in theory there is more wealth around but ask the many starving homeless how much of that end up benefitting them.
  Not far from my job is an official place where people can request asylum. Over 50% who have the legal right are refused. The paperwork is so idiotic that the state is spending extra money so they can fine themselves but also refusing to pay those fines. In the mean time people dying in the park across the street is a regular occurrence.
  The first world is mentally ill. Its a soulless controlled system designed to minimize time spend with people you trust and care about, maximize time spend creating value for the gdp counter. Trying to help people in public can end up in them acting hostile to you.
  We mix up happiness with paying for stuff we don't need, mix up sustainable healthy lives with having enough money saved to hypothetically pay a emergency hospital bill.
  Half my friends have seen the inside of a psych ward, a third has made plans to leave to start a new hermit live off the grid. Some have successfully decided to cut their lives short in order to escape.
  I assume all first world countries will be a little different, but in most your chances will depend on your socio economic circles like how rich your parents are, wether your grandparents still own a home to pass down to you. But if you come here with nothing but a bag on your back.. often criminals will recruite/exploit and reduce them to a slave, alternatively they starvd/ freeze dead in winter or murder/rape each other out of desperation
  Tldr: grass looks greener on the other side, its not, It just has different weeds.
- Why don't you just stay and make your country better?
  
  Some people tried that and got killed by the US. Like Salvador Allende. And they tried the same thing on Castro literally hundreds of times.
  
  Can ask the same thing to whiny first worlders.

Whether or not the perspective given here is valid, it's inarguably really low-empathy
- yeah this dude is kinda exemplifying 4chan

"You don't have it any better. You don't have it any worse. We are each our own irreplaceable, human soul with our own understanding of what it means to suffer. And that's a huuuuuuuuuuge bummerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr"
- Not everyday you see some AJJs lyrics.

What's "strooglers"?
- Like a glizzy but more gay
  
  Is it just me or is slang sounding more and more like random words pulled out of a Dr. Seuss book?
  
  Well, thank you. But now I have a new question...

What would normal people be but normal?

The overall point aside, people don't take Adderall because they want a kick, they take it because they need it to be functional. I'd say that you have to be either ignorant or an asshole to call someone a druggie for regularly taking Adderall, but you know, 4chan, ignorant, asshole, redundancy, yadda yadda.
Edit: Jumping to the conclusion that people take Adderall because they want to get high feeds the stigma that people with ADHD are just drug abusers, which is a core reason why people with ADHD have so much trouble accessing their medication. If someone wants to get high, there's little reason to go for Adderall rather than drugs actually designed to get you high.
- What? People absolutely abuse Adderall to get high...
  
  They do, but the point is that you shouldn't assume that's the case simply because someone takes adderal. The vast majority of the time, they take it as directed to treat their ADHD.
  
  People abuse literally any psychoactive substance to get high, the point is a majority of people who take Adderall or any other common ADHD medication aren't.
  The people who go around acting like those who treat their disorder are druggies, and derived from that is the myth that ADHD is overdiagnosed rather than severely underdiagnosed (especially in adults, women, and minorities), are why it's so inaccessible to a lot of people who it can help immensely. It's been a massive problem for a while now, even media like South Park have been taking that kind of angle attacking ADHD diagnoses/meds for the past few decades.
  Actually expanding on this, a large portion of people who illegally use such medications, e.g. for doing schoolwork or studying in university, have undiagnosed ADD and are unknowingly self-medicating. Something like Adderall doesn't really have affects very different from a bunch of caffeine on non-ADHD minds, it mostly just makes you more alert and less sleepy (on the contrary, a lot of people with ADHD can feel fatigued/sleepy when taking stimulants because now their mind doesn't have 50 thoughts at once going off at lightning speed 24/7). Who would have guessed ADHD medication helps people with ADHD?
  I mean it's stupid that (in the US at least) we have a society that thinks "some people abuse this drug therefore we should make it extremely hard to get or make it illegal (as long as it's not alcohol or nicotine) and we should act like most people who use it are abusers and addicts" but it is what it is.
  
  Or to study
- There's definitely people who don't have ADHD that take Adderall.
  Which group that guy belongs to is up in the air though.
- Lmfao this is so naive it's incredible
- Adderal has nearly the same effects of meth
  
  No the fuck it does not. They are both stimulants, that's effectively where the similarities end. A prescribed dose of adderal will not even come remotely close to the effects of recreational meth use.
  
  Having experience with both, it turns out you are correct but still an asshole. Meth is harder to dose correctly but it fixes the same problems with my brain that Adderall fixes.