Hope this is allowed! I've browsed on this site for a while, even had another username where I engaged in some fairly civil debates with other users before I was banned due to not being a Q follower.
Interested in having a friendly discussion with anyone who's up for it!
A bit about me:
I'm a mechanical engineer working in product marketing I live in a major city, Chicago, and have pretty much only voted democrat I am a homeowner I have followed conspiracies for a while based solely on my own curiosity, and by and large found that a lot of the major ones (pizzagate, Q) don't make a ton of sense, but I'm not here to argue that. I think we're just gonna have different opinions on it.
All said, happy to have a casual AMA! Not interested in flamebaiting or arguing
I'm 31 years old, grew up in a suburban home with my parents, brothers and sisters. I'd say I had a more privileged life than most, but after leaving college I did my best to distance myself from that and build my own life up without assistance from my parents
Sounds like you had a wonderful experience in your life. I admit, I think I have avoided responding bc I'm afraid I'll insult you & I really don't want to. You're obviously a responsible person, if what you say is true. Besides my thinking is so far beyond Democrat or Republican at this point, a political conversation is futile. I'm at the point where no government at all is better than the new we all have coming. I wish the best for us all no matter our life choices & maybe that boils it down anyway - we should all be free to have those choices.
You don't have to. I'm not sure why the default for you is to insult. It's much better to have civil discourse with people that don't resort to mudslinging. It upsets me that it's the default for so many people on this website. Everyone seems so defensive and trigger happy, but speaking from the left (and I mean the heart of it), the ideas people have on this site about what the average democrat does is...bonkers.
Some freedoms are good. Some, specificaaly those which infringe on the rights of others, are not. I think some discussions that people have had on this site are part of the bad kinds of freedoms.
I've been told I'm very forward. Too forward in my opinions. That I insult people. I do it civilly, of course but I still upset some anyway.
If anyone is so defensive and trigger happy here it's probably because of all the nonsense going on in the world and your party supports it. There is no getting around that. If you support Joe Biden & the Democrat party, even averagely, then you support all of the BLM & Antifa rioting that has gone on in this last year & the chaos of now. There is a finely drawn line in the sand. Either Biden & his policies are going to sink America or American's are taking their country back for themselves again. It's time to pick sides, is how a lot of us are feeling.
I disagree with you on your freedom comments. If you don't like things your reading on here, you don't have to be here. Other people rather enjoy it so they come to partake. They're not infringing on any of your rights by having a conversation you weren't invited to.
Maybe you have a better example.
Do you think being forward with your opinions that lead to insults is something that you like people to see you as, or not? Because you appear to be hyper-conscious of feeling as though you have to insult people, and I would imagine that's incredibly stressful.
A person does not have to be all in on supporting a person. They can support a president while still being critical of his policies. They can support a group wile disapproving of some of their actions. It never has to be all or nothing. I have friends I speak to regularly about politics and we have some days where we're upset with the current administration and some where we aren't. Some things that BLM has done I am incredibly supportive of, and I can also understand that many of their rallies have devolved into violence I don't agree with Things aren't so black/white, life/death.
I'm aware that I don't have to be here. I choose to be here to try and have civil discourse with people, because, if I'm being honest, I'm constantly confused how some people here get to the conclusions that they speak about. I don't think anyone is infringing on my rights right now, but you can't deny there are talks about violence towards anyone who is a democrat or even just wearing a mask.
Here's an image link of people on this site arguing about whether or not women should have the right to vote:
https://i.redd.it/dpy5qpen4hg61.png