So I finally found places like thedonald and parler and other .win sites where I still don’t have friends but I feel slightly more included, I get upvotes, I don’t get hated on like I have all my life just because I have a differing opinion on life and society to others on social media.
That’s all I seem to do wrong is have a “bad opinion” and that gets me hated. I feel so alone right now and I’m guessing so do millions of others and now I’m seeing the last few places I felt accepted being removed.
Am I a bad person? I’ve not hurt anyone, I may have said/wrote things people don’t agree with but I never attack someone, I never try to cancel someone, I love discussion and going back and forth with others to find out the differences in opinion we all have in this wonderful diverse world. I love people, race and religion doesn’t even cross my mind, I don’t want to see harm brought to anyone. I just want somewhere to go where I don’t feel like an outcast anymore.
I’m very lucky I’m not suicidal because this world we are being dragged into is going to kill so many others like myself, I feel so sad and worried of what is coming. I just wish these big tech companies could show a little compassion towards those like me who just want to fit in, want to find friends, want to feel accepted.
We have all learned that this world is a very diverse place and we have all learned to accept that’s how it is but now those exact same things we have learned are being used to attack a single group of people. People like myself. This goes against “accepting others” and “hate crimes” because I feel so hated and unaccepted right now that I’m scared to even talk and now I’m even being gagged from talking.
A wise man once told me “opinions are like arseholes, we’ve all got one”. Is their arsehole worth more than mine?
tldr; I’m depressed and lonely and big tech are adding to that loneliness and I thank sites like this for helping me feel not so lonely in a very desperate time.
Don't be sad man, sometimes you have to be your own friend. Get audible and listen to books, exercise. Listen to podcasts on whatever interests you or business, there is always value to be added to life that you haven't even discovered yet.
I’ve worked non stop throughout this whole fiasco, I go for walks as often as I can, i eat healthy, I appreciate nature and love visiting my local beaches, I enjoy flying my drone and editing videos, I do all the things I get told that will make me feel better but no matter what happens, I’ve always got this phone in my pocket which is apparently a communication device, now it’s just turned into a device to drag me down into despair in my spare time and makes me feel a million times worse. Leaving it behind doesn’t even seem like an option and all I want is to converse with others.
I say I don’t agree with masks when I used to post on Reddit, then I get “I hope you and all your family catch Covid and die a slow death”. That seems to be ok, they get tonnes of upvotes, I get hated and inboxed and banned, just because I disagreed. This is why I enjoyed parler so much, I would get tonnes of upvotes and it feels great, I felt accepted.
editing videos!!!! Meme war it up!
Thank you buddy. It’s a shame there’s so many others like myself, we need a movement of our own, a movement of love and acceptance. This is what makes this world great, not all this ‘hate’ being thrown around so easily. We should all be allowed to exist.
There are so many... you are not alone. Peace be with you mate!
MAGA family is there for you... in 2015 i lost my depression when I found out about Trump and MAGA movement, I mever felt so strong and understood. I made goals in my life than too, im working to achieve my dreams , thank you and all MAGA... we are familly, even if im not even american
I’m not American either but this is the only place I feel accepted, I delete accounts regular on here in fear of getting witch hunted by the left.
Dont be afraid... im Showing who I am to everyone , I waswearing MAGA mask in since 2017 and only last year people started noticing and callin me out xD im happy. Being me I found support group in my country too, I thought I was alone at first
You have a new word to keep in your heart.
FREN
Thanks Fren!
Aye, no worries. DM if you would like to chat.
I feel lonely and depressed too man.
I’m guessing this is how it feels to live in a dictatorship “think my way, or it’s the highway”.
How can anyone single out a group of people and cancel them like they are some kind of evil creatures in this day and age? When even people like me who are quite opinionated can accept everyone? This goes against the grain of what we’ve been learning and teaching our kids since WW2.
It is making me hate these people with a white hot anger. Particularly when I read posts like this.....
Apparently the government that preached "Never Forget" has forgotten completely.
That’s the thing though, I don’t hate them, they can think however they choose and I should be allowed to question any of their posts or writings but all I receive back is disgusting hate and anger. I’ve never seen such things, even my old Xbox account inbox wouldn’t get as much hate as I’m seeing these days. At least they only wanted to fuck my mother, these people these days want my mother dead 🥺 🤦♂️
You are too young to remember, but as the oldest of Gen X, people used to be able to be friends with people who believed different things in politics. Politics were completely a different proposition then.
The left and identity politics is what pushed people into becoming tribal. They want the chaos and hatred. That is how despots seize power. Straight out of the Communist and authoritarian playbook.
Add a heaping spoonful of naked self interest on the part of tech to stoke division for their own bottom line and traffic, and voila, you have today's take no prisoners world.
I’ll be honest, I’ve only dipped my feet into politics this past year, I’ve been carefree and reasonably happy with my lonely life up until then, now I see so much hatred and horror going on that it’s hard to comprehend.
Fractious times in history have never been easy to live through. But it is in those times that growth and strength emerge. You develop resiliency.
The strongest trees grow in the wind...
And sadly the worst fires spread in the wind.
But they stopped teaching that about 20 years ago. . .
True, I’m 40 so am just old enough to remember what I was taught.
Good Morning!
Good morning to you too sir!
I dont understand it either but i hope someday we can be united and treat people with decency again. Allowing people to have an opinion and trying to actually see through their eyes and point of view is what is needed.
Just be grateful you don't have panic attacks. Those are the fuckin worst
Sadly I do, I’m having the worst panic attacks ever, to the point I literally park outside the hospital waiting to drop dead. I even had such a bad panic attack I collapsed and had a seizure in front of my mother. So yeah I am feeling that pain too.
Dear God. I have had panic attacks since the age of 5. I know your pain. ((((Hugs)))) to you. You are not alone.
Oh man mine have only started this past year, that must be awful. I’m still struggling to find coping mechanisms especially in this locked down world we live in right now.
If you can, get the book From Panic To Power by Lucinda Bassett. It was really helpful to me. I am rooting for you. Please realize you are not alone.
I have these and they are the worst. The only thing that make them go away is a low dose of Xanax and now they won't prescribe it anymore. After my doctor of 20 years retired no other doctor will prescribe it. Since then I have become housebound for a year. I quit my job of 7 years, stopped driving and the walls are closing in. Therapy doesn't help. Now the only way for me to communicate with people is being taken away from people like me. This is a bad time to be a panic attack sufferer.
Look up ashwaganda. It helps me alot. I too take a small dose of advan.. my pcp is the only one who will percribe it. If I did not have it I would be in the e.r. so they have no choice but to percribe it. But I take it very sparingly because I dont want to be addicted.
Anyway, ashwwganda has proven clinical studies that show the stress hormone cortisol is lowered drastically after 30 days of use. I use Life extension sensoril ashwaganda. After using it for a while it makes my panic attacks happen less often. Since I stopped they came back hard. I'm telling you try it if your panic attacks are stress related. Not professional medical advise and ask your doctor.
Thanks for that info. That is really helpful. I will say a prayer for you and hope you never get another panic attack again.
There is this saying I heard I think it was from Cowboy Bebop that went something like "It's better to be alone and happy than to be miserable in a crowd."
Anyways, you're never alone.
You got TDW right now.
We are the downtrodden. We are the dregs of society. We are the workers that constantly toil so life can go on. We are the cogs in the machine that make it work. We are the ones that kill or die to protect. Society will never like us and will always think we shouldn't have a voice because they feel that we should do as we're told; just like you do with cogs in a machine. In this place, though, you have friends. They may not have the best bedside manner or they may fervently disagree on something that you hold dear but in the end, you will always have friends here.
That’s the thing, if a war starts I’m a fit, strong and healthy construction worker so I will be the guy thrusted onto the front line to fight for these people, I help build this wonderful world and I will help defend it whenever the time comes. What will they be calling me then? They won’t be able to fight with their limp wrists and messed up way of thinking, they need us more than we need them yet we are shunned away from society.
Hang in there. I know that's a cliche thing to say and doesn't really help the situation, but it's the truth. For the first time in a very long time, conservatives and libertarians have had enough. They will soon have no choice but to listen to us and if they refuse, then we will make our own society apart from theirs. Just wait a bit longer and things should start falling into place for us.
I really hope so.
find your external locus of control! The left side is more miserable because they see peoples actions and words and an attack on them and inner stress. Try reacting to what people say and do as what can you do and if things are just a dig at people like us, then fuck them and keep doing the right thing for you, your country, and peers. Trumps party has been so inclusive and really encapsulates a base with such wide ranging opinions on many things. The difference is we will listen and even debate back and forth without going low. If you want more opportunity, freedom, and prosperity for everybody, then you are with family and we want to help everybody live out there best live and find life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness if they can understand personal responsibility and their suffering is an obligation for others to fix and respect! <3
The internet was once a safe haven for outcasts like me, now I’m an outcast on the very place I called home. So I guess you’re right and I need to find a new place in my mind to feel comfortable and at home but I’ve been on the internet since 1998, it’s hard to just give it up.
I am not necessarily telling you to give up the internet but I think stress either slowly depletes us or empowers us. Next time something gives you that cortisol on the internet respond to it with the mentality of how can I use these emotions to jumpstart something that will benefit me or I can act on in my lives interest. If the answer is not really anything than recognize it for what it is and that retention or surrender to that stress is what has weakened you to where you are at now. The realization of our humanity and the role of emotions allows us to capitalize off of them or acknowledge the pointlessness and consequences of that mood carrying into or cognitive thoughts and further thoughts. Rumination during depression is one of mans biggest enemies and this Covid/ Censoring BS has turned up the heat on almost everyone.\
I am trying, honestly. I just needed to get this off my chest. My goal is a campervan and getting away from the internet on the weekends and spending time in nature. Even though lockdown is trying to prevent me from doing so, I’m not going to let that stand in my way, after all my campervan will be my ‘home’ so technically wherever it is parked is considered my home, even if it’s 10 meters away from the beautiful ocean on my favourite beach. I just need to keep working and saving before Covid kills off the construction industry which I feel is coming very soon.
Good! my first advice is try to reset your circadian rhythm. Find some natural sunlight to start your day, and maybe wear some blue light blocking glasses if you are using technology after Sun down. Helps the Human inside of you reset.
Don’t be silly I live in Wales. We don’t see the sun here 🤣 🌧
The lockdowns and insanity have affected me to a great extent also. I'm a high functioning autist and have extreme difficulty in making friends. I am too direct and always speak what I believe to be truth. All of my close friends are autistic like me. I have no friends in the state I'm living in. I miss talking to people.
I like to go to restaurants a lot, I have a set that I cycle through every week. That was my contact with humanity (I used to be a cook and restaurateurs are like family). Now even that is gone.
Now TDW is my connection to humanity.
Btw, if I didn't know Jesus and know that GOD is in control and pray in the spirit daily, I'd be going nuts.
Yes my same routines have been cancelled, even the simple thing of getting my hair cut once a month has gone, I feel so scruffy and ugly when my hair grows out and I can’t even get that fixed. It seems they are removing all the simple things that humans use as a coping devices in this messed up world. Thanks for you kind words.
Growing up i was a bookworm weirdo. My jokes were never funny. My friends were the other geeks/nerds
As an adult...although we are all somewhat social .perhaps due to being aloof when younger...i am "alone" but not lonely
I grew up at the beach..but now live near mountains. Nature, near the beach is also somewhat isolative,quiet, contemplative.. whereas..where i am now, the birds, rabbits, squirrels coyotes...way better company than 99% of the humans...lol
I suppose that longing for acceptance is a "weakness" shared by many...but at the same time...as the saying goes..'any club that would accept me isnt a club that i would want to belong to'. Ironic.
There is a book "a tree grows in brooklyn"...a metaphor for life encased in concrete that has only a crack if dirt..it claws and struggles..reaching towards the sky to find sustaining sunlight. So too are we..
we are given two gifts when born; Life and the will to survive. What you do with it is up to you. "The quality of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts"
As you can see, im also quite bad at motivational speaking.
"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee."
The best friend you can ever have is yourself. Being lonely is tough, and everyone goes through it. There are so many people feeling what you are out there. Maybe try and reaching out to help one of them feel less lonely would help you, too.
All my best to you, pede, and you always have frens here.
Reach out where though? Everything is getting closed down and we are getting bottle necked into one of the big techs machines of hate. It feels like there’s no hiding from it.
I don't know if religion is your thing, but have you tried something like that?
I was never christened, I have been anti religion most of my life because of how much hate and anger I see come from it with wars etc but this last year has really made me wonder if I should find a god, but I want to find my own god, not one that’s already out there, i want to find my own personal Jesus, one that speaks to just me. I’ve taken many psychedelics in the past and had so many spiritual visits with godlike entities that I feel maybe, just maybe there is someone out there for me. I just need to find him.
What u hate is when they ruin my favorite shows and movies with propaganda
I can’t even focus on TV or Movies anymore, the only media I can enjoy is pre 1990s music. That’s it.
Try speaking positive things into your life. I know it sounds cliche, but always remember your focus determines your reality. You can focus on God or other good things.
Look for the color red where you are. Obvioulsy you cannot materialize that but you can chose what you focus on.
It’s Monday morning where I am, took another day off work because of this. Nothing is ever good on a Monday morning. 🤣
I havnt worked in 3 weeks
Damn sorry bro, I dread the day I hear Boris telling me I can’t go to work.
No I havnt worked cuz my anxiety and panic
Oh right yeah I get that, I haven’t worked a Monday for a while, I keep panicking about going in, the worry of people hating on me because I don’t wear a mask (I’m exempt because of my panic and anxiety) but that doesn’t stop the stares, the evil looks coming from above those masks. I even got shoved to the back of the doctors surgery to stay away from everyone because I’m deemed “unclean” for not wearing one. Then I was even made to wait outside the hospital in the cold when I thought I was having a heart attack, I’ve lost all faith in the health service and this makes my panic worse. It’s a tough world right now for people like us and the big tech are making it worse.
Thou friends thy hast and their adoptions tried, grapple them like hoops of steel.
The majority of people don't have true friends. EVEN PEOPLE WHO CLAIM TO HAVE A BWST FRIEND, 99% OF THE TIME IT IS NOT TRUE FRIENDSHIP.
Jesus showed us the model of marriage in his relationship with the church as well as the model of friendship in the disciples. 99% OF PEOPLE DO NOT LIVE UP TO THAT STANDARD.
Society is all about people using arbitrary measures of success as a way of creating a pecking order. How many friends do you have? What car do you drive? Where do you work? How big is/are your cock/tits? How many partners do you have? ETC
NONE OF IT MATTERS, THE ONLY TRUE METRIC IS ARE YOU WITH JESUS OR NOT?
And if the answer is yes, people will forever shun you and turn against you. The Christians who have a dozen friends and are the belles of the ball at church 99% are usually not ACTUALLY following Jesus.
CONFORM and you too can have friends. Say BLM, say fuck Trump, watch crap primetime TV, listen to god awful music, drink overpriced coffees, live to work, never actually enjoy life, follow the herd, and you can have friends. FAKE WORTHLESS GOOD FOR NOTHING FRIENDS
Hopefully you have a wife, I'm in your same boat but my wife is the truest friend I could have ever wanted. IF YOU DON'T HAVE ONE, PRAY, YOU'LL FIND HER.
you're not alone, you have 75 million frens
BTDT
HI!
Sorry what’s BTDT? 🤷🏻♂️
Been There Done That
Haha well wish me luck!
They can hurt you ONLY if you give value to their opinion.
Never give the bastards the satisfaction.
I recommend 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Petersen, and Neurotribes. The latter book will help you understand your brain better and understand normies.
I understand perfectly, I just try not to word it in a way where I would insult anyone, I’ve kind of learned that about the internet. I’ve learned to be peaceful to others, even when under attack. Maybe that is my weak point.