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Dirty Socialist

(3,252 posts)
Sun May 14, 2023, 10:23 AM May 2023

I liked the prettiest girl at my high school

And I thought she liked me. I was dead wrong. I learned my lesson. I think about that when I see magats today, and it infuriates me. How can they be so delusional. Shouldn’t that kind of thinking be for high schoolers , or middle schoolers? If what you mistakenly perceive something that’s too good to be true…

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I liked the prettiest girl at my high school (Original Post) Dirty Socialist May 2023 OP
They're still back on the seventh grade playground being bullies, they have never advanced RKP5637 May 2023 #1
I think that is true for a lot of them Dirty Socialist May 2023 #2
As evidenced by their secret hand signs & secret meme, "Let's go Brandon!" CrispyQ May 2023 #4
I've thought that, too. They're developmentally middle schoolers. yardwork May 2023 #5
school... markie May 2023 #3
As a teacher, I call it You Aren't the Boss Of ME! Syndrome. LakeArenal May 2023 #8
What's the comparison here ? JI7 May 2023 #6
Thats what I obnoxiousdrunk May 2023 #9
The comparison is Dirty Socialist May 2023 #10
Intellectually, their brains have not fully developed past the early post-puberty stage. TheBlackAdder May 2023 #7
The analogy fails.... brooklynite May 2023 #11

RKP5637

(67,111 posts)
1. They're still back on the seventh grade playground being bullies, they have never advanced
Sun May 14, 2023, 10:26 AM
May 2023

beyond that. They appear to have some serious developmental issues.

CrispyQ

(36,478 posts)
4. As evidenced by their secret hand signs & secret meme, "Let's go Brandon!"
Sun May 14, 2023, 10:40 AM
May 2023

Which the Biden admin has hijacked beautifully!

markie

(22,756 posts)
3. school...
Sun May 14, 2023, 10:39 AM
May 2023

no critical thinking skills taught in school and few at home... and some of us humans never really grow up

LakeArenal

(28,820 posts)
8. As a teacher, I call it You Aren't the Boss Of ME! Syndrome.
Sun May 14, 2023, 10:55 AM
May 2023

Same people who didn’t even try in school, hate the school and don’t want to pay their share for education.

Dumb asses. Literally.

Dirty Socialist

(3,252 posts)
10. The comparison is
Sun May 14, 2023, 02:24 PM
May 2023

The comparison is if you really want to believe something is true (when it’s not), you might be deceiving yourself.

TheBlackAdder

(28,209 posts)
7. Intellectually, their brains have not fully developed past the early post-puberty stage.
Sun May 14, 2023, 10:49 AM
May 2023

.

While they learn more things, they have not developed more advanced forms of conceptual thinking.

Their brains aren't mapped that way. They are at the lower spectrum of The Formal Operational Stage.

.

brooklynite

(94,598 posts)
11. The analogy fails....
Sun May 14, 2023, 06:09 PM
May 2023

...unless the girl was saying she liked you and was stringing you along.

Trump enhances the MAGA adoration by telling them how much he's "one of them".

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