Yeah, it can be pretty disheartening to see some of the very loud and irrational voices on the left. I want to try to publicly temper the silly black and white rhetoric as much as I can to hopefully help everyone focus on the actual problems we’re facing, rather than catastrophizing or pushing away potential allies with wild purist gatekeeping. It also helps when we hear another voice of reason to feel like less of an outsider…
I think I saw this while out and about and forgot about it but I 100% agree.
It feels like shouting into the void but it’s nice to come across posts like yours doing the same thing.
My personal theory, mostly based on how upvotes for a post can significantly differ from the comments, is that there are a lot of folks who have similar feelings but have given up being yelled at by crazies in the comment section. Which, absolutely fair, half the time I get a notification I’m going “ugh, what silliness is someone going to yell at me about this time?”
Yeah, it can be pretty disheartening to see some of the very loud and irrational voices on the left. I want to try to publicly temper the silly black and white rhetoric as much as I can to hopefully help everyone focus on the actual problems we’re facing, rather than catastrophizing or pushing away potential allies with wild purist gatekeeping. It also helps when we hear another voice of reason to feel like less of an outsider…
I think I saw this while out and about and forgot about it but I 100% agree.
It feels like shouting into the void but it’s nice to come across posts like yours doing the same thing.
My personal theory, mostly based on how upvotes for a post can significantly differ from the comments, is that there are a lot of folks who have similar feelings but have given up being yelled at by crazies in the comment section. Which, absolutely fair, half the time I get a notification I’m going “ugh, what silliness is someone going to yell at me about this time?”
Anyway, keep up the good fight!