Brother, who exactly do you think you are right now?

AH-HAH! Exactly what a bot would say!

Damn. That sounds very bot-like. Must be your accent.

The little raccoon thing? It was at some dollar store. Sadly that is an older picture of my bag and it has lost its legs.

You speak exactly like those you point your finger at. Fascism can’t exist without Anarchism. Conservatism can’t exist without Liberalism. They can’t exist without You.

Like I’ve mentioned in my comment in this thread, I am trans. These days I’m more offended by cis people getting offended and trying to ‘defend’ trans rights than I am of anything else. Most of y’all are just virtue signalling and/or using us as an excuse to push your own agendas and your own hatred of those who perceive things differently. Our blood is just as much on your hands as it is on theirs and until you realize that, blood will keep spilling.

I could easily choose to be offended by the wording, assume the worst of their entire being and never come back. If I’m right, I’m just leaving weeds to spread freely, if I’m wrong, I’m casting my own negativity on innocent people. What you think of people is reflected back upon you. You judge them negatively, they judge you negatively. Simple as.

I want it to be clear that I am not saying, nor do I think that you are wrong in this case. I simply do not know, but I care to find out. What I am actually saying is that what you see in others is more of an indication of what you currently are, than what they ultimately are.

Your whole premise for this is that this person went out of their way to create a conservative community. Well, let’s say you were actually someone with more conservative values, not a fascist, just a more conservative person.

Remember what things were before we were all pushed towards extremism? What? Did you think you were immune to that? Think harder lol.

Now, if you look at how fucking insane and just basically astroturfed and puppeteered by troll farms and bots running on LLMs all conservative spaces are online, would you not want a more sane place?

Now think about how ‘our’ spaces look to the people who fall more on the right of the ‘political spectrum’. Do you really think that leftist spaces do not suffer the same type of manipulation by the opposite end of the spectrum? Do you really think that some people are just ‘evil’ and incompatible with life on Earth? Do you think you were given some kind of knowledge at birth that just made you better or more right than them?

There is an extreme right and there is an extreme left and they are equals. The extreme left would gladly do to the right, what they believe the extreme right would do to the left and that perpetuates a cycle that needs to be broken somewhere before it breaks by itself in a catastrophic fashion.

Isn’t it funny that there is a part of me that feels like I’m gonna get shit on for trying to remain neutral about someones intentions before they show them to me?

You’ve assumed a lot of things from very little. I think you should read your comment again and review what you know to be thinking vs feeling.

Care to tell me why you think this was loaded?

I don’t know what conservatism is anymore, and I definitely do not agree with what is presented as conservatism in politics today, nor do I agree with what is presented as liberalism. As I’ve cut myself off from algorithms and news feeds over the past year, I’ve come to realize that I get along with most people I meet in real life and that letting politics ultimately influence your relationships with people is like trying to outrun the head of the Ouroboros.

I am a trans woman, I believe in the thing some people call God, I do not agree with any religion, I know they all individually lie but collectively say the truth.

I have joined your community and am excited to see what kinds of discussions we will experience. I hope it does not turn ugly too quickly and that this can actually be some kind of bridge between the two extremes.

I was disappointed but not surprised to see the reactions in your first post. I’ve said similar things not that long ago but I realize now that I was just adding fuel to a fire that needed none. We all create our own opposition, after a while we have to open our eyes to the fact that we are victims of ourselves. We got pushed but we kept running, fueled by our own overinflated egos, brake lines cut through social disconnection and isolation.

It’s time to pull the handbrake, to take a breath, turn around and say: “Hello, Neighbour.”

👋 🫂

Well I’m not really talking about traditional advertising either. More of the viral and algorithmic kind.

Not only that but on social media feeds. Like algos pushing ‘cigarette/smoking’ memes. My youtube feed always has a couple cigarette themed videos like, trying every brand of cigarette in China or some bullshit like that, or on instagram it’ll just be random smoking related shorts or some random fashion trend or meme that is associated with smoking in some shape or form. My feeds are definitely special considering my interests and the chambers I interact with but still, this does not feel ‘organic’ at all to me.

Anybody else nocticing an increase in ‘cigarette content/advertising’ these days?