I have such an unpopular opinion on some things that I'm afraid to tell it aloud, fearing of cancellation, hate and stuff. I don't think this is a democracy anymore if we have to self police our thoughts to match the acceptance of the weak.

of the weak?

Well it can't be that bad, I still haven't been chased down for saying that the react creators should apologise by doing seppuku

@BordedDev that's because they're working their way down the list of people who think they should do something far worse.

@whimsical you mean like woke snowflakes?

I see all sorts of semi racist euphemisms in places like youtube on some channels. Starting to see this in more places.

So people have been moving into hobbies to try to escape the PC culture that is being shoved into people's faces. Those spaces are now being invaded by that same cancerous culture. This is causing people to realize the whole point of PC culture is limiting what you can and can't say. This is in turn causing the pendulum to shift and momentum is picking up fast. People got pushed way too far.

Unfortunately people who embrace certain aspects of the PC culture will be viewed with disdain and caught in the cross fire. I see this happening on a small scale so far.

Places like Reddit will continue to double down on the PC culture. I don't know what will happen with that. Reddit is so wild. There are subs that wholly reject PC culture and I honestly don't know how they continue to exist. Reddit is usually pretty ban happy for subs that do that.

One thing I am finding is people praised the "cancel culture" in connection to PC culture. But now the reverse is happening. Other groups who oppose PC culture are using "cancel culture" as well. So its getting kind of wild in that respect.

What is interesting is people were happy to embrace cancel culture until it started to affect them. They went after people who weren't PC. Now they are going after people who aren't PC enough. Each time limiting what "normal" people could say. "normal" being people who want to be able to exist without extremes. So the extremes are being forced on everyone.

I am not saying you personally embraced this, just that everyone is feeling the effects now.

All right wingers are pedophiles.

@antigermgerm you make me laugh every time you post this shit. I can always count on your to troll mercilessly.

@YourMom No trolling. Everytime I met a right wing person he turned out to be raping kids

Also yes white people smell bad. We were all thinking it

@antigermgerm did you see the family that got kicked off a flight because they stank? They looked Caucasian to me. It was a wild story.

means it's all going according to plan

robotize your actions and behaviours. robot means slave I heard

... escaping the PC culture is really a culture shock, too

like you'll see people with differing opinions and they're not fighting because they have slightly different body language about a subject or phrasing in how they understand something. it hits you like surreality but it really shouldn't. took me like 6 months to get over it and I score open minded everywhere 😭

people leaving PC culture places are gonna have a bad time adjusting to being able to accept the actual diversity in others. just been so long since any of us have seen it that we wouldn't even know what to do with it

I mean, there's a also the idea that you should be a little bit afraid of just yelling random shit out-loud. Human are social creatures and whether you live in a democracy or not has little to do with what your social environment is like. In fact I think the reverse is also kinda true, and the people randomly shouting their "popular" opinion were probably never punched in the face before either.

@jestdotty I love PC culture. IBM really made the best computer architecture

@Hazarth I never got punched in the face.

I mean at 9 a guy named Alfonso gave me a headbump. I still remember the pain. Didn't stay mad at him coz I annoyed him somehow.

That being said I punched a guy in the middle of Dublin airport. Now I'm on the ryanair no-fly list.

@Hazarth damn. I had this on my mind but didn’t know how to phrase it! 😄
On point!

@Lensflare right? The last time I mouthed off to a dude was in an airport in Dublin. He punched me in the face and got banned from flying. No ragrets.

As long as I've been alive, this victim mentality has existed. Blaming the mostly-imaginary PC guardians of goodthink is easier than considering that you might just be a terrible person.

@Lensflare lol punch a Nazi

would be funny, you'd get the eye of nazis

@MM83 they'll just say it in private to their "loved" ones, who won't feel much love at all 🥲

public discourse is healthy for all involved. punching not necessary

though I'm female and watching dudes punch each other is pretty entertaining 🤔

I got so pissed once at a dude... he punched me in the head 5 times into the pavement... to be fair he followed me. so I kicked him. I did not win that

he was doing some shit to a buddy of mine and my buddy always withstood it. and I just lost my shit and just walked off. then he and everybody followed me. then he tried to corner me and I kicked him. then he clocked me in the skull and into the pavement a few times. I got dizzy and I've never been dizzy before so that wasn't good. but who punches a chick? I did kick him but if you're following me fuck right off

@jestdotty good on you, there's only one way to really deal with a situation like that.

Plus, like all creeps, he was probably right-wing, so doubly deserving of a slap.

@MM83 I'm more right than left at this point. especially in my country

it's a bit fucked up to dehumanize people to that degree I think

@jestdotty 'twas a joke, if OP is right then I should get a knock on the door in the night. Prisons get a bad name but there's no rent, no bills, and no debugging, count me in.

I'm not really left or right anymore, doesn't matter what you put in the mixture, when you heat it the scum will always rise to the top.

Cancellable opinions come from four sources, as per my own observation;

- Unspeakable truths (xyz culture *really is* just like their stereotype)

- Bias ("I think this is true because I want it to be")

- Incorrect facts and/or baseless assumptions. ("I think this is true because I don't know better")

- Lack of empathy. ("I think this is true because I don't want to go through the emotional burden of considering the way others feel")

So don't be a pussy, OP. Fire away with whatever you're thinking and let the world judge you.

Let me break the ice: large scale immigration is a net loss for the host country. Reasoning:

Immigration from country A to country B is usually because country B lacks something that country A has.

For the most part, this is quality of life. This includes education.

Yes, some immigrants are LITERALLY Einstein (Germany > USA, 1933). However, the average immigrant is poor and has had less access to resources such as edition.

@AlgoRythm Not to misconstrue my argument as "immigration is bad"

If a host country can reasonably provide for an immigrant, I think that's a net positive for the world at large.

Help people if you can.

But there's this web that modern politics spin about how "immigration is our strength".

No. Not unless you're only taking the best immigrants and leaving the average behind.

And if you're taking the best immigrants - they probably had above average living conditions in their home country anyways - so what's the point in that? You're not helping anyone who needs it.

I mean don't have to even judge the immigrants. if it's above assimilation rate then you're gonna have cultural problems. don't care how smart or violent or whatever they are you'll always have problems if it's too fast

Unfortunately I'm not left or right, simply because to be left or right involves the fact that I'm accepting some kind of vision or norm accepted by left or right so I'm apolitical, and considering myself anarchist. I think anyone should be allowed to say whatever he wants without centralized punishment - like a reddit ban, opinion police etc. I don't mind making people pissed but when the system starts to enforce the acceptance of anything it's control, and control is fucking bad.

@jestdotty no, I don’t want to punch you. Violence is not the answer.

@Lensflare ostream tho

@jestdotty Violence is NOT the answer.

@Lensflare if the question is "what is brutal and intentional", then violence IS the answer

@antigermgerm ah, you got me!

@Lensflare to be honest, we need more sax and violins in our music.

"I don't think this is a democracy anymore if we have to self police our thoughts"

....whine, whine.. last time our country was not a democracy (~40 years ago) and you did not "self-police" your thoughts, you could have ended up in an uranium mine

but yeah, it's so much worse now with democracy - if you say anything unpopular the people might not like you and twitter/foxnews/newsmax/OAN are full of cancelled people, which are now unable to voice their opinions

@qwwerty no access to money

which means homeless, can't get food, get poisoned because can't afford not garbage in your body

can't buy tech, no clothes

they're doing debanking and gatekeeping of services this time

@YourMom those are for fags.

Real men play the veena

@qwwerty Agree that's better then 40 years ago but it's way worse than 15 years ago.

@whimsical is snek different from the devrant clone?

@Lensflare Yes but no but yes

@BordedDev computer says no

@Lensflare Currently it's its own thing

@jestdotty yes, but that's a problem of capitalism/oligarchy bordering on feudalism, not of "democracy"

if you allow 0.01% group to transfer costs to end users while pocketing all the profits, without forcing them to contribute back to public, there's no wonder

@whimsical last time I did rpc was in uni using java lol.
This is giving me some flashbacks 😂

@Lensflare Better times? ;P

@BordedDev no, not really.

@Lensflare But at least your knees didn't hurt? ;P

@BordedDev and my back

@qwwerty it's the government doing it which claims itself to be a democracy so I guess it's democracy or whatever they're trying to claim is democracy

btw democracy ain't good. it's republic you're looking for if you wanna be morally superior. then there's a rights the government can't take away from people underneath the democracy part