Hey, guys?
People on the opposite side of the political spectrum can be good people too.
It's starting to make me really uncomfortable how divided everything is. People have adopted an "if you're not with us, you're against us" mentality when talking about the other side, and it's so jarring going from online where that's the norm to being in an Uber and your driver is the other side.
Online parties make the other side out to be monsters who want nothing more than to watch the world burn. And while that is absolutely true for some people (on BOTH SIDES), most people are far more sane than that.
Everyone's actions make sense to them. Everyone thinks they're in the right, at least to some degree.
Left-wingers aren't monsters under the bed out to kill and eat kids or something.
Right-wingers aren't shadows on the wall that stalk their prey at night.
But holy fuck the way they talk about each other, you'd think they are.
I'm not saying you gotta switch sides. What I am saying is that you're not helping out anything by "us vs them"ing the other half of the population in your head.
Most offline people either don't think some issues are as prevalent as they are, or just don't see how it applies to them and focus on their own lane. This (the second half) can be a bad thing, absolutely, but it can also be a good thing, too. Mostly it's neutral from what I've personally seen. The first half just means they should do more research, but if someone doesn't see why it matters then convincing them to do so in earnest will be hard.
That doesn't make them bad. Just means they're focused on other things. Just because someone doesn't get it doesn't mean they're the scum of the earth. There's plenty you don't know about, either. How dare you not know about every tiny conflict happening out there right now, y'know?
Love thy neighbor n all that. We're all just trying to live as best as we can at the end of the day.
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its not even midnight yet? if you told me it was 3am id believe you
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Sudden deep drops in mood suck, even knowing it's very likely just hormone related. Like, oh, irrationally sensitive to everything? Check. Constantly on the verge of tears? Check. Convinced all your friends only tolerate you and are actually quite fed up with you? Check. Feel annoyed and frustrated with all your hobbies and creative endeavors? Check. Over prevailing sense of worthlessness and like I'll never amount to anything? Check.
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had a dream these two fictional characters had bullied someone because they were weak, and i was sooo fucking stubborn trying to fight them while simultaneously being weak myself. it's like "you go to pull them by the collar and it doesn't work" i keep trying. "You try to grip onto them but they pry you off" wrong i keep trying. "They leave the room" wrong i keep trying. "They teleport so someone switches places with them" wrong i keep trying. "they're going to go to the eyeball dimension" wrong i keep trying.
you can't get rid of me in going to annoy you forever.
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