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.
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.
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.