this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2026
722 points (98.4% liked)
memes
22478 readers
4000 users here now
Community rules
1. Be civil
No trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour
2. No politics
This is non-politics community. For political memes please go to !politicalmemes@lemmy.world
3. No recent reposts
Check for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month
4. No bots
No bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins
5. No Spam/Ads/AI Slop
No advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live. We also consider AI slop to be spam in this community and is subject to removal.
A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
Sister communities
- !tenforward@lemmy.world : Star Trek memes, chat and shitposts
- !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world : Lemmy Shitposts, anything and everything goes.
- !linuxmemes@lemmy.world : Linux themed memes
- !comicstrips@lemmy.world : for those who love comic stories.
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Why is living simply and within your needs viewed negatively?
Meanwhile, having $1000 worth of throw pillows that are purely decorative, is some sort of achievement?
FWIW I live alone in a 2bed/1bath condo that's 1100 sq ft, and people tell me my place is 'too small' and I need a 3+bed/2+bath place that's like 1500sqft. Baffles me. and by people I mean, mostly women. Most men think my place is plenty spacious and great.
The house I grew up in was 1200 sq ft with 5 people. Blows my mind that the apartment I own is basically the same size as a house, but apparently unless I live in a McMansion sized space, I 'have issues'.
The people who give you shit for having more room than you actually need are self-selecting themselves out of your life.
so all my friends and family should be cut out of my life?
To put it bluntly, yes.
After reading your reply to someone else, you seem to be wrapped up in what all of those people think about you. If you can unwrap yourself without cutting them out, do that. It'll take a lot of quiet confidence and being able to let their criticisms roll off your back.
That's hard to do when you're in a hole, and nobody wants to support your getting out of it. (And by hole, I mean your mental state, not your financial situation.) You should connect with people who support you, not with people who continue to push you down.
lol dude, they are my friends and family. I can't not be wrapped up in them.
Let me just never talk to people again I've known for 20+ years because they don't think the place I live is nice enough....
Personally I'll never understand the absolutist attitudes that are so prevalent on here or reddit. But hey, I use Windows computers, drive a car, and play video games on a console, I'm a heathen!
You can tell me these magical 'supportive' people exist, but to me they are entirely theoretical and I'll take real people over theoretical people. Just because folks don't support me one way doesn't mean they haven't supported me in others. But again... everything on the internet is this absolutist/extremist take. Clearly if I make a comment on the internet... about a legit social issue... I must be the one with a deep personal issue and insecurity or something... lol
This meme is a take on the whole sexist 'how dare men be happy with a simple home' thing. You know that, right? The 'issue' would exist regardless of me mentioning or not. I was simple relating to it in my own personal way, as I find it amusing how true this is, how folks get bent out of shape over my own home being 'too little' and I don't see 'the issue' with it that they do.
But maybe I should just buy $5000 worth of fancy pillows and that would solve it.
You're the one who brought it up. If you're already fine with it, and I misread your several comments as your being conflicted about all that, forgive me. But "You can tell me these magical 'supportive' people exist, but to me they are entirely theoretical" really doesn't sound like you're okay with it.
All that said, just because people are family doesn't mean they can't be shitty shitty people. Just because you've known someone a long time doesn't necessarily make them a friend.
Dude, it's lemmy.
anything anyone says means some random person has to come out of the wood work and turn into a historical battle of good vs evil.
you can't say 'i like cake' here without someone appearing to lecture you how enjoying cake makes you a fascist who supports the gaza genocide and if you REALLY were anti-fascist like they are, you'd never enjoy cake again and destroy all previously memories of cake enjoyment
my family are just people man. they aren't especially shitty people, they are just normal americans. they like football and hamburgers and the suburbs and vote republican. so basically... they are pure evil incarnate for the lemmy userbase. I am the weirdo to them, with my urban living and my small car and my democrat votes.
but some of us have lived our entire lives in a gray area of compromise, and see nothing wrong with that. it's just how ordinary everyday life is... full of compromise, faults, mistakes, and laughing about it. not all of us are holy keyboard warriors.
Who's being hyperbolic again?
it's not hyperbole dude. where in USA culture is being content with what you have celebrated or looking upon positive?
certainly not in our popular culture. maybe regionally sure, i have known mid-western people who were pretty content, but certainly not common attitude in most other parts of the country. maybe in more rural areas that's true, i certainly grew up in a town with people who had no ambition and many of whom never left or never improved their lives.
hell USA is the origin of the prosperity gospel. we are so obsessed with material greed we mixed it up with our religion.
You've not met very many people then, and/or are heavily influenced by what you see online. Most people, yes even in the US, are not like what you're describing.
Dude it's been that way before online existed. Ever seen any Hollywood movie for the past 75 years?
You mean (wait for it) fiction?
all national mythology and culture is fictional duders.
people still believe in it though.
ever hear of Horatio Alger?