This place ia reasonably small and nice.
I’ve also found some support in my life-experiences (meatspace too) for the idea that left-wing people are just a little bit nicer yknow, just a little bit nicer, whereas businessmen and other rightoids are a bit mean/cruel.
When I really got into leftist thought about a decade ago I came across a very sincere idea that we have to be better. That part of building a new and more equal society starts with the self. That doesn’t mean letting people walk over you, stick to your principles. But it means being cruel isn’t the way to go about it. I’ll be mean to chuds all day. But I won’t be cruel to the uninformed that can be won over. So I try to be polite, be sincere, and be kind. Until somebody proves they are an asshole. Then I’ll be mean. Sort of cultivate a “warrior monk” mindset as cringe as that might sound. We have to be better as a proof of concept for our beliefs.
There’s nothing like the rush of getting more likes than the person you’re replying to. The ratio is an uncut ecstasy. The first viral post just makes you crave it more! The next ratio, the next rush. But owning people with ratios is hard work, it takes a following and the right target, but you need it to happen faster than that. Get your fix. Soon you’re in an alleyway downtown just trying to get ratio’d yourself to feel something. People uppercutting you with quote tweet dunks are almost like Likes if you’re down bad enough. Just the attention man, just one more sweet hit of attention. Yeah Anne Frank had white privilege. It’s ableist to tell me not to cross a picket line. Cooking a meal for your neighbors? you should have killed them and then yourself for being so rude. Please just give me those upvotes man I need my fix
Fuck you too
Hell most of the internet is like this. It’s why I love this place so much, that outright hostility people have for one another in the larger internet is absent here. Good work on the part of the community and the mods for making it this way.
