• Flying Squid
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    47 months ago

    If they don’t care about my money, they shouldn’t ask for it. It’s just shitty behavior.

    • @EatATaco@lemm.ee
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      127 months ago

      True, but people do things they shouldn’t do all the time because they are struggling. Like if your depressed friend flakes on hanging out, that’s “shitty behavior” too. Are they are bad person who you should ditch? Or a friend suffering that needs your support? In both cases, it seems to be the latter.

      • Flying Squid
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        57 months ago

        If they need my support, they can ask for my support. They’re asking for money.

        If you can’t open up to me enough to say “I need your help,” I don’t think we were very good friends in the first place.

        • @EatATaco@lemm.ee
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          -27 months ago

          So, a depressed person who flakes on hanging out is a bad person you should ditch.

          You and I are very different with our friends.

          • Flying Squid
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            77 months ago

            When did I say anything about hanging out? What are you talking about?

            • @EatATaco@lemm.ee
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              07 months ago

              You answered the question indirectly. Or intentionally avoided it because you don’t want to admit some inconsistency. I figured the former, but maybe I was wrong. So which is it?

              • Flying Squid
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                57 months ago

                I did no such thing. If someone can ask for money remotely, they can ask for help remotely. If they can’t ask me for help, and they are rich, and they ask me for money, we obviously are not very good friends, because they clearly don’t trust me enough to just ask me for help.

                • @EatATaco@lemm.ee
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                  07 months ago

                  So what about the depressed friend who flakes on hanging out? If they can cancel remotely, they can also ask for help remotely. I don’t get why this analogy is just being ignored.

                  If I think a friend my be suffering I reach out to them to see if they want to talk. I make myself available. I make sure they realize they aren’t alone. You think this makes them a bad friend for not asking for your help.

                  • Flying Squid
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                    67 months ago

                    I don’t know why you keep bringing up hanging out as if it’s relevant.

                    If a rich person asked me for money, I wouldn’t think they were suffering. I have no idea why you think I would believe someone doing that was suffering rather than being insufferable. Because this article says so?

                    Anyone who is actually my friend knows that the way to get me to help them is to ask me because it’s something I make clear all the time.

                    You’re basically telling me I wouldn’t be friends with someone I wouldn’t be friends with. This is true.

      • Flying Squid
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        77 months ago

        You’re right. I do cover other people’s meals when I can afford to do so. But I don’t send someone $4 for no reason. You keep bringing up irrelevancies.

        And insults are not called for. I did not insult you once.

        • This is the first time I’ve engaged with you on this topic, idk what you’re talking about. “seems like an ass” is not an insult, please learn how to read or get thicker skin

          • Flying Squid
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            77 months ago

            So you’re telling me that if you told a complete stranger “you seem like a total ass” when you could look them in the eye, they wouldn’t feel insulted? Really? Because I think it sounds like a good way to provoke a physical altercation.

          • @ickplant@lemmy.world
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            47 months ago

            Insult (noun): an offensive remark or action.

            Are you saying calling someone an ass is not offensive? Have you fallen out of the dumb tree and hit every branch on the way down (that’s an insult, btw)?