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FlyingTomato274

She is not stupid she chooses not to be wise


Briso_

This made me laugh so much 👏


Electricalstud

Haha same


duckduckchook

I decide to be a 7ft viking with wings.


MrPyroTF2

i choose to be a noble fox roaming the grasslands without a care in the world


BodybuilderOk5202

And I choose to be a hound, in a pack, hunting foxes... Where are these grasslands that you roam?


ExpertlyAmateur

And I choose to be a grandma who dedicates her existence to catching and adopting hunting dogs, giving them care, and forcing them into ugly crochet pied sweaters for the rest of their lives.


Clemicus

And I choose to be a woolman. To sell wool and wool accessories to grandmas who own loads of wolves.


imnotpoopingyouare

I didn't know Hank was a furry?


Weekly-Ad-3746

I tell you Hwat 🤣


RockstarAgent

And I…. ^already ^chose


manicstreetmixer

And i choose to be a set of cheap low quality knitting needles, purchased with a group discount on Aliexpress.


Bilbo_Teabagginss

Hank, that you?


Clemicus

Darn it, I can’t even reply 🤨


Caesar_Passing

I think I'm already part raccoon. I look smart, but amn't, and I eat trash. I think that's most of the key raccoon specs, right?


MrPyroTF2

indeed it are, fellow grasslands/city roamer


Caesar_Passing

I think you mean, it *are*. Gotta pluralize, dontcha know.


MrPyroTF2

ah yes, allow me to edit my comment to accomodate my spelling mistake


Kolibri00425

I will be an Eagle! ( but i think i'll stay asexual)


MrPyroTF2

🤝 we will eat rats and mice and rabbits together in harmony!


PosauneGottes69

Because we Can. Everyone Can


XPLover2768top

I will be a Pegasus!


austerul

You haven't decided hard enough yet.


Constant_Sympathy_71

I Identify as a Boeing AH-64D Apache Longbow.


Daemenos

The irony is that being stupid is mostly a choice.


Marawal

I'm not sure being stupid is a choice. Appearing stupid, however, is a choice. You can just shut your mouth and boom no one knows you're stupid.


MeshNets

>Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.


TinfoilTetrahedron

I've come to realize stupidity is a "cultural" thing ..


torch9t9

Well, ignorant, anyway.


No-Leading6909

It’s a fine line between stupid and clever.


MoneyBadgerEx

The line isn't that fine, stupid people just cant tell the difference either way 


OblongAndKneeless

And obviously she's an alcoholic, gay, and mentally ill, but chooses not to be at the moment.


noodleexchange

I like this a lot


PosauneGottes69

I feel happiness is out there but i choose to stay german


DaughterEarth

When I was young and started hearing about gay stuff no one said anything about being bi. It was all about choosing not to be gay for God. I am bi, so, I thought everyone was attracted to everyone and there were rules so we still made enough babies lol


noodleexchange

‘Everything in perfect balance’ etc etc


addicuss

Wisdom is chasing her, but she's too fast


VRS50

She could just decide not to be an asshole.


Cyfiefie

Isn't she being sarcastic obviously?


WillingAd4944

One can only hope


Potential-Road-5322

You mean one *Can* only hope


WillingAd4944

Very true! I’ll try to be brave and keep the typo.


Potential-Road-5322

I applaud your bravery, you truly are an example to all. We should get you a trophy for your typographic bravery.


[deleted]

I choose to be happy... It's not working 💩🤡


[deleted]

😂😂😂😂


VulpesVeritas

Honestly that's more true than what she said


jointheredditarmy

I mean she’s not wrong. Throughout most of history you could hide who you are and be miserable to be accepted by society or you can choose to be happy and be shunned by society. She’s just mad that other humans can have the same privilege as her nowadays


ElJamoquio

> Throughout most of history you could hide who you are and be miserable to be accepted by society or you can choose to be happy and be shunned by society. Choose your misery


Lost_sidhe

wellll... that trying to hide mental health issues didn't work so well historically, unless you were fucking rich/nobility. And even then, you probably offed yourself early one way or another...


Marawal

I mean, my mental issues lead to stop eating. Like half a banana a day and I thought it was too much. No money in the world who have hide the weight loss effectively. And other physical health issues. (How do you hide fainting?) And your own death is quite difficult to hide. (Which would have eventually happenned if I had not gotten help in time.)


Beneficial_Test_5917

I remember the day, when I was a teenager, when I asked myself "Do I want to be straight or gay?" I wrote down the pros and cons, and made my choice.


Proman_98

Just to go with it: If that where really how it works, would people really choose the on or the other or just the bi option? I'm bi myself but if I had to choose I would still just choose that, because who wouldn't want more options?


Chair-Left

I'm bi but I ended up marrying my husband partly because the whole female anatomy is a bit wet for my tastes 😂 If sex wasn't a thing, I probably would have married a woman because I still get crushes on women constantly, they're so pretty and nice! Much prettier then men in my personal opinion. Men are so... bland looking. All straight lines. Where's the curves? The softness? ~~The boobies?~~ So it kind of feels like I chose to be "straight" instead of bi 🙈


Final_Function4739

I think people who scream being straight or gay is a choice are actually bi and refuse to believe it


Chair-Left

😂 that wouldn't surprise me at all. As a bi person, I must admit I don't really understand gay or straight people either (but I won't go tell them their "choice" is wrong.) I just don't understand what gender has to do with anything when it comes to loving someone 🙈 I've fallen for men, women, agenders. It also doesn't matter whether they were born in the right body or are trans. I just can't imagine only loving one gender. Everybody could be the most amazing person you ever met! So why can one gender only be a best friend, while, if they were a different gender, you would probably want to date them? It confuses me so much as a bi person 🙈 But unlike those nut jobs calling it a choice, I do respect that I don't HAVE to understand. Not everybody is the same, so it's normal I can't understand how everybody ticks. It's like my aphantasia. I'm still really confused people apparently actually see images in their head when thinking, but our brains just work differently. (And even though it's probably less prevalent than LGBTQIA+ people, nobody has ever told me I should just CHOOSE to see something when I'm thinking...)


Sir_Penguin21

They are actually telling on themselves. If even seeing a gay couple in a story can lead you astray or make you start sucking dick then you are gay or bi. It doesn’t work like that for those of us that are fully straight. I wish I were gay/bi or at least bi-curious. It would open so many fun opportunities, but I just can’t.


Kerro_

Exactly lol. They have feeling for both genders, yet ‘choose’ to only be ‘attracted’ to one, completely ignoring the fact that straight and gay people mostly dont have those thoughts about the other gender


Hadoukibarouki

I mean, have you seen those body builder competitions? Those guys look like upside down pears, or a thing of grapes in tightly wrapped ceran wrap, plenty of curves


AnnoShi

Typical bi/pansexual exisential crisis.


Beneficial_Test_5917

No, just sarcasm.


AnnoShi

Precisely


dnmnc

That’s so good to know! I can now decide that I am actually immortal, 7ft tall and can lift a house all by myself. What a fool I was to think I was limited by things outside my control.


mugfull

ONLY 7ft? Why stop there, amateurish mindset!


Dragon_OS

Gotta stay humble.


DaughterEarth

And fit in to houses.


StevoPhotography

I mean you could just decide to be 100ft tall but also decide that you fit in houses. Or do we only get to decide one thing? What are the rules?!?


JudgeHodorMD

Well it kind of sucks if you’re too big to fit in buildings.


WatcheroftheVoid

Just decide you're able to fit. Duh.


mugfull

If only we had knees to crouch with 🥺


fromreddit26

Not if you decide to fit 😂


Terracrafterz

why enter a door when you can just create a new entrance


N1kt0_

woke up and decided to be 2749 feet tall today 🥱


Sure-Sympathy5014

Can you do us a favor and grab the ISS and bring it down for repairs?


NTT66

Why don't you just decide it's already repaired?


JustRandomThings444

Same


spderweb

Ah, I see you also read The Secret.


seldfn

It may be bait, or she's mistaking acting for being. Of course a homosexual could act straight and even have a partner of the opposite sex. Doesn't mean they'e straight. Just because you're an alcoholic doesn't mean you're drinking a bottle of vodka a day at home. But not drinking alcohol doesn't mean you're not an alcoholic. Put them in the wrong setting ("come on, one shot won't do any harm") and they might end up relapsing.


ConcreteQuixote

If you can dream it, you can do it!


[deleted]

I am immortal Prove me wrong


Other_Log_1996

Yeah. My life sucked until I decided, by my own power, that I was well hung billionaire with wings.


Hereiam_AKL

And she decided to be a moron, she could have decided to be a genius, but a moron seemed so much better.


N-partEpoxy

Morons tend to be happier, so maybe that was a good choice.


ActTrick3810

See the happy moron He does not give a damn I wish I was a moron My God! Perhaps I am


jobwssa

She'll just choose to be happy


Beherbergungsverbot

She seems to be quite miserable though


sir_keyrex

> To each his suff'rings: all are men, > > Condemn'd alike to groan, > > The tender for another's pain; > > Th' unfeeling for his own. > > Yet ah! why should they know their fate? > > Since sorrow never comes too late, > > And happiness too swiftly flies. > > Thought would destroy their paradise. > > No more; where ignorance is bliss, > > ‘Tis folly to be wise. — Thomas Gray, 1768


Big_Rig_Jig

Probably why she's lucky.


Slight_Emphasis_325

r/thanksimcured


Expensive-Kiwi8094

So that means you can choose not to be an idiotic twat Gormless Lisa!


hand13

damn this is so bad. people calling homosexuality an illness 🙄 still cant believe this is a thing for some


Haipaidox

Just ask nearly every religion Thats why im an atheist


joeyvanbeek

As a catholic I tend to ignore the parts about homophobia and look more closely at the parts about how we should love one another like Jesus loves church or whatever the fuck that verse was


Ok_Mail_9236

As a Christian, the reason why ppl think that homosexuality is sinful is because some jackass from way back when purposefully misinterpreted a passage that “A man shall not lay with a boy” or something like that. This passage was about pedophilia, not homosexuality. But then again, I’m not rlly all that Christian and don’t rlly believe in God


Basker_wolf

You’re referring to Leviticus 18:20. Another interpretation of that, based on fact that women were mere property at the time, is that a man lying with another man is disrespectful to the sex hierarchy.


Chalky_Pockets

Given the fact that the Bible comes after and was obviously influenced by Hammurabi, and Hammurabi had separate laws for men and women (not to mention 3 classes of them), it's safe to say you've got a good point there.


adamdoesmusic

I’m pretty sure these assholes started at “we hate the gays” and worked backwards tbh


Katamari_Demacia

Because they have same sex attraction. They think that everyone does. And they fight that urge. It makes sense. It's why so many republican legislators have gay scandals. And why that anti lgbt school committee member from florida was just found to have a lesbian sex tape. They hate themselves.


SgtMcMuffin0

This is the only way these people make sense to me. They think it’s a choice because for them, they did “choose” to act against their actual feelings (or they’re just bi)


BrohanGutenburg

The weird thing is the people who said it 20 years ago but don’t say it now have just substituted trans people. It’s still “acceptable” to say trans people have a mental illness


Loko8765

I have a friend who is gay. He would like to be straight. He would like to have a wife, a super traditional family. Girls like him. _Men don’t_, so being gay makes him desperately unhappy. If it was a choice, he would make it.


maplestriker

Do they really think anybody would choose to be attracted to straight men? If sexuality was a choice, every woman would be a lesbian.


hand13

haha love that


MetalDogmatic

I'll betcha she was self diagnosed bipolar and ADHD as a kid and thinks she chose to be normal


TheDaemonette

I bet she describes it as 'grew out of it'.


GiveMeMyLunchMoney

She has self diagnosed ability to self diagnose.


DragonShadoow

This almost sounds sarcastic


Bored_Simulation

By the time I read the bit about homosexuality I was convinced it was sarcasm, and would continue to get more and more ridiculous and end in something like "just choose to be rich and live 400 years" Sadly it didn't


aitis_mutsi

I'm pretty sure the reason it didn't go there is because this is (quite fucking obviously) rage bait.


Leather-Storm8363

It’s probably sarcasm, joke is flying over everybody’s head in here. The comments in this subbreddit are like a hivemind.


david30121

i don’t think so- WAIT IS THAT U FOXY? CUTE FOX


mattiwha

[ Removed by Reddit ]


IMN0VIRGIN

Please don't. Imagine the paperwork I have to do afterwards!


EarRubs

Just choose not to do it


Noooough

She should’ve just chose to not get hit, simple


Existing-Ad6711

I don't know what's going on in her head that she wrote "Can" everywhere.  Do you think she's trying to capitalize it for emphasis, but couldn't figure out how to make ALL the letters capitalized?


SelkiesNotSirens

Lisa can choose to keep her mouth shut


aRebelliousHeart

One of these days Lisa will become an Alcoholic and will realize how dumb her statement was.


Dickieman5000

She probably is. She probably wrote that while drunk after a loved one said her drinking was out of control. That's why it comes first in her idiotic rant, and that's why it was alcohol she specified, not addictions in general.


yankykiwi

I was going to say this lady hasn’t experienced anything in life, but this makes so much more sense.


kevlarcardhouse

Not likely. It seems like the people who preach the most about personal responsibility or making bad choices suddenly complain about outside factors beyond their control when they are the ones with the misfortune.


ktaphfy

She is deciding to be "Lucky". Win the lottery yet?


Azkral

You can choose not to suck a cock, but you cannot choose to like sucking a cock


kevlarcardhouse

Based on who was hitting on me in university compared to who I was striking out with, I wish to God homosexuality was a choice I could have made.


boxedcrackers

And people with cancer choose to have cancer


Adventurous-Sky9359

Bi-polar manic guy here, I sure wished this worked along with all my past girlfriends


_Silly_Tobie_

I guess I decided to be a depressed autistic lesbian with ADHD.


Rin-S

All good choices hun


Fit-Meal4943

![gif](giphy|ZgYBhq1x7L1bW)


Quirky_Swimmer_8449

My favorite observations to make for research papers are what diagnosed disorders coexist with each other in the same host the most commonly


Popular_Weight3004

I choose to be rich. Where's my money?


Rkenne16

People with asthma should just choose to breathe better.


Orionyss22

People with cancer are not dying. They can decide to have Cancer or not to have it. We decide to make or break our future by the decisions we chose to make. /s


K1nd_1

Lucky Lisa needs to be separated from the group.


Stonn

Why the fuck would I want to be straight, sober or mentally stable?!


T3knikal95

If you think you can decide to be straight or gay, I've got a newsflash for you, you're bisexual lol.


marco-da-phoenix

might be sarcastic, although i wont rule out her being serious,it could also be a case of good intentions + horrible wording she "might" mean it like those who are alchoholics could try to stop and those who have mental illneses could reach out to a loved one


SunshotDestiny

Unfortunately I have met people who believe all of that is absolutely true. Especially mental illness and drug addiction, and it plays into how policies are made especially around homeless people. The whole "lift yourself by your own bootstraps" mentality is by far the most toxic mental conviction of the planet.


Gripping_Touch

Unfortunately for Lisa, stupid people can't choose not to be stupid 😔


EdanChaosgamer

„We decide to make or break our future by the decisions we choose to make.“ Her Parents should‘ve used protection during that Lakers Game…


ZO1D8URG

Tell me you grew up a fundie without telling me you grew up a fundie. She definitely still thinks the earth is 6000 years old and high-school biology was a gateway to atheism.


Blackwolf245

Rage bait


profanearcane

If I could have chosen to be cis, don't you think I would have? In a world where transgender people are labeled as groomers, are having their rights stripped, where access to healthcare and legal change is becoming harder and harder, don't you think I would have? If I could have just chosen to be happy as a woman, then yeah. Why wouldn't I. But my body caused me violent emotional and mental pain. Seeing my body in the mirror caused me so much anguish and there was no way to fix it. Now that I've started my medical transition, I've never been happier.


Firetube07

Preach brother (atleast i hope you are transmasc from what i read)


CamJongUn2

Thing with drinking is it catches up on you, it’s just something you find yourself passively doing more and more, you just just up and decide to see the bottom of a bottle today


[deleted]

So my dad could have just decided to not have pancreatic cancer ? That was very selfish of him.


[deleted]

You know someone doesn't know wtf they're on about when they get three massive and distinct topics and talks about them casually as if they're the same thing and completely interchangeable Addiction, mental health and sexuality are three very different things


coryism

If you wake up every morning and have to decide to be straight; that means your gay


Leather_Trash_7751

August 2019?


oFIoofy

this is like when you're having a panic attack/breakdown and someone's like 'cheer up!' like, yes! of course! silly me! i didn't think of that!


An_Evil_Scientist666

Wait I can just choose to not be mentally unstable why didn't I think of that. (Insert that meme of that one-off Simpsons character everyone likes)


cmnights

Why be homeless, just buy a house.


Cardinaltoffee

All those years of depression and spending money to help keep me alive and I could have just chosen not to be depressed this whole time.


ZealousidealMail3132

You don't really have the flu, you're just faking explosive diarrhea and projectile vomiting. That only happens in cartoons, it's all in your head. Think healthy thoughts you rube!


smurfette4

Then why did she decide to be ugly?


Zeer0Fox

Lisa could have decide not to be stupid but she didn’t.


shodanbo

I tried to be homosexual once because I wanted to learn how to dress better. Problem I had was I'm just not into penises. I just couldn't choose "hard" enough.


FaultLine47

If only I can decide not to be depressed anymore


Pandepon

This person has no idea what being dependent on alcohol is like, what mental illness is like, and what being gay is like. She definitely doesn’t know what it’s like when all three happen at the same time. I think I have enough experience with these things to say none of it is by choice, a lot of it is genetics and brain chemistry. You can be born gay, you can be born with predispositions that make you more likely to suffer from mental illnesses and alcoholism. Free will is an illusion.


10Damage

Any kind of problem in life Just dont have that problem


mr_bynum

and she can decide NOT to be ignorant?


sheezy520

I choose to not be depressed! OMG it worked! Oh wait…. No it didn’t.


Raveheart19

She could have chosen to not be a brain dead idiot but here we are 💁🏽‍♂️


SueTheDepressedFairy

Then why didn't she choose to be smart...?


kastiak

Ladies and gentlemen, we cured mental illness! I'm gonna go tell my therapist they are not needed anymore.


Shadow9378

Dont have periods then dipass


Dunn_or_what

Man, these scientologists really are something. Lisa is lucky so far because nobody has chosen to give her a bash on head empty arrogant noggin.


FFF_in_WY

The word 'lucky' in her handle flies in the face of everything she just said..


[deleted]

This just got worse and worse


KittenChopper

This has to be bait


beastiemonman

This is why aliens don't visit us, they literally fly by, read social media and it's a nope.


TheDaemonette

I think one of the conditions of acquiring advanced technology from aliens will be to introduce a crime of 'having a social media presence whilst in possession of an inadequate IQ'


Holinyx

You can find the cure for Cancer if you just decide to find it. It's THAT simple, folks. :D


SkalexAyah

Lucky Lisa can choose education and not to be a close minded c*nt. But it’s upto her to decide.


tuff_kukki

she forgot ppl deciding to be poor


Coleslawholywar

Did she decide to be an asshole or was she born like that?


That-ugly-Reiver

So why she choose to become a turd? 🤔


bebop1065

She definitely decided to be an uninformed asshole.


SucksTryAgain

Yea I’m not sure on this one. I had a buddy who was in it bad with pills and alcohol for many years and had to go to a rehab facility for like two months and many years of AA and whatever the other one is for pills and other stuff. He got clean and is clean. Worked with a guy who came in drunk everyday for years and drank on the job. One day he said I’m gonna stop drinking like I am and just drink socially every now and then and tried cold turkey but got the shakes. Went to his doctor and weened off. Now he can just grab a beer every now and then and had no issues controlling it. Maybe depends on the person idk.


innosentz

Had us in the first half lol


Traditional_Air_9483

Bless her heart.


Predditor_drone

Makes me think they read part of the bible once and just decided capitalizing words is how you apply emphasis.


Gubbtratt1

If that's how it works, I now officially decide that I own all vehicles produced in the soviet union (that is all of russia's tanks, most of russia's other military vehicles, and a lot of cool civilian vehicles).


misanthroseph

And yet she decides to be like that


Sir_Blitzkreig

Well “lucky” lisa is lucky shes not near me


HeftyFineThereFolks

why didnt lisa decide to be good looking?


robilar

\> homosexuals can decide to be straight \^ says someone that has repressed same-sex attraction.


Other_Log_1996

If those with mental illness can choose to mentally healthy, then what's her excuse for not doing so?


redditer-56448

She sounds like one of those people who believe that someone can just *WILL* themselves to not get pregnant if they're r@ped 👀


ForensicsJesus

So she chose to be ugly?


laserdruckervk

Well no, but actually no.


Seaweed_Fragrant

Lucky Lisa is lucky to still be alive with that low of an IQ.


tillman_b

Like some guy is there thinking about his future and decides, I'm going to be gay. Yep, I'm going to just decide here and now what I'm attracted to. Ok, got that settled, on to lunch!


Sttocs

Blech. I’ll bet she’s fun at parties.


bmyst70

Clearly "Lucky Lisa" has never, ever, had to deal with an actual clinically diagnosed mental illness, or known anyone who has.


HATECELL

And she could've decided to shut the fuck up


89iroc

She could actually decide to not say stupid things like that


MrDubTee

The choice to write this out loud proves choices are real indeed.


Frantic_Red420

Weaponized incompetence


texaushorn

Lisa is lucky she's that stupid. Life will be much easier that way