I can't tell you how to act on the Internet but please calm yourself and don't let the fluff preoccupy you. Updoots don't matter in the grand scheme. One day the forum will be gone or the Internet will, and that will be lost to aether. Going off like a sperg about disagreement doesn't help, as we've seen with the atheists sperging about Bible quote threads. It's run the risk of devolving into an Imp-style crusader and eventually becoming hated by mostly everyone here.
There's plenty of users here that are zero tolerance retards on certain subjects, even if a lot claim to not care about what others post if it isn't breaking the rules. It's a natural consequence of isolation from normies. We don't have to deal with too much of the bad ideologies being thrown in our face, but we still have to gatekeep from the poison too. From a political perspective, playing what looks like a Tim Pool fencesitter doesn't work given Beanie Man's track record. It hurts that many different people of different political persuasions get thrown in the Gamergate pit, which has evolved into more of a Free Speech/Culture War group. But there's those that have been in it longer, to the point that beliefs harden and there is no compromising with anyone. To be honest, hardening into more extreme views is going to happen naturally as civilization starts splitting apart or collapsing, as it's not easy to overcome the instinct of survival.
Being outside of the political spectrum is fine, as every critical thinking human being should, but the average polarized person can't make that distinction and will assume you're automatically siding with the other side. We all come across it, and there's not much that can be done, by the very nature of Internet posting lacking discussion context and body language. You seem to have good points on occasion, and sometimes bad ones. Just please do not take it personally when people disagree with you in a manner absent of logical fallacies, that is usual debate, argument, or discussion. Use your time wisely.
I'm not really a fence sitter, I just look at things as other people do on an individual basis and I hate the tribal bullshit that infests groups like I'm seeing a bit now.
Fence-sitter probably wasn't the right choice of words. I probably could have jokingly said "ascended" though it comes off as a bit... arrogant. I don't like the tribalism either, but it's bound to happen as the poles get more extreme and as we approach election season.
I can't tell you how to act on the Internet but please calm yourself and don't let the fluff preoccupy you. Updoots don't matter in the grand scheme. One day the forum will be gone or the Internet will, and that will be lost to aether. Going off like a sperg about disagreement doesn't help, as we've seen with the atheists sperging about Bible quote threads. It's run the risk of devolving into an Imp-style crusader and eventually becoming hated by mostly everyone here.
There's plenty of users here that are zero tolerance retards on certain subjects, even if a lot claim to not care about what others post if it isn't breaking the rules. It's a natural consequence of isolation from normies. We don't have to deal with too much of the bad ideologies being thrown in our face, but we still have to gatekeep from the poison too. From a political perspective, playing what looks like a Tim Pool fencesitter doesn't work given Beanie Man's track record. It hurts that many different people of different political persuasions get thrown in the Gamergate pit, which has evolved into more of a Free Speech/Culture War group. But there's those that have been in it longer, to the point that beliefs harden and there is no compromising with anyone. To be honest, hardening into more extreme views is going to happen naturally as civilization starts splitting apart or collapsing, as it's not easy to overcome the instinct of survival.
Being outside of the political spectrum is fine, as every critical thinking human being should, but the average polarized person can't make that distinction and will assume you're automatically siding with the other side. We all come across it, and there's not much that can be done, by the very nature of Internet posting lacking discussion context and body language. You seem to have good points on occasion, and sometimes bad ones. Just please do not take it personally when people disagree with you in a manner absent of logical fallacies, that is usual debate, argument, or discussion. Use your time wisely.
Fence-sitter probably wasn't the right choice of words. I probably could have jokingly said "ascended" though it comes off as a bit... arrogant. I don't like the tribalism either, but it's bound to happen as the poles get more extreme and as we approach election season.