you're absolutely not alone, comrade. even when i meet people i genuinely like and whose politics are mostly agreeable it's inevitable that they'll eventually say some insane shit like "the evil ccp, which i hate..." and it's like
Same with the Uyghur thing, honestly. You just have to accept that you're going to sound like a completely insane whackjob whose had their brains cooked by the Internet if you start talking about it to an average person
You just have to accept that you’re going to sound like a completely insane whackjob whose had their brains cooked by the Internet if you start talking about it to an average person
can't have a redemption arc without some past sins
though at this point it seems you just can't have a redemption arc, period
Not sure how anyone expected Westerners, even left-leaning ones to not just go Putin and Russia Bad about the Ukraine situation
it's obviously possible because most users of this website are westerners, myself included
This site's userbase is fairly far down the rabbithole though
tell me about it; every day i spend here renders me less and less tolerant of the horseshit opinions i encounter everywhere else
Glad I'm not the only one experiencing this. It's exhausting.
you're absolutely not alone, comrade. even when i meet people i genuinely like and whose politics are mostly agreeable it's inevitable that they'll eventually say some insane shit like "the evil ccp, which i hate..." and it's like
how do i talk to normal people anymore???
My friend told me about Gorbachev's death and it was jarring to realize he didn't expect me to be happy about it
:disgost: "of course i think it's good that the man who forced untold numbers of women and children into prostitution to survive is dead!"
every day here makes you STRONGER :arm-L::sicko-hexbear: :arm-R:
Yeah I totally expected a lot of my friends to be more skeptical than they turned out to be. Oh well
Same with the Uyghur thing, honestly. You just have to accept that you're going to sound like a completely insane whackjob whose had their brains cooked by the Internet if you start talking about it to an average person
:side-eye-1::side-eye-2:
:I-was-saying:
Putin is definitely bad, but the West is at least equally bad (or even more, given that Putin is literally a result of 90s western fuckery).