Stankeye wrote: ↑
Maybe it just a culmination of one too many ‘conspiracies’ that you looked too long at (not dismissing fast enough) over the years adding up to someone who they don’t trust. I just don’t really know and I can’t figure it out by reading what others post.
I used-to attend Game Conventions, where boardgame, card game, and rpg fans would play & socialize. For many, the conventions were exciting high-points in their social lives. When the Google Plus social media platform launched-- that gamer-scene consciously-decided to make it the core social media platform for their community. I had very-little use for Friendster, Myspace, Facebook... but I gave Google Plus a try. I found it overwhelming-- like each person was a loud tv blaring inside my home, all at once. People who I was perfectly-happy to see every-couple-months... would be in-my-face every damn morning at 7am & every-time I looked at G+.
(Even worse-- many were Social Justice shits-- claiming victimhood/ demanding higher status/ cancelling others on a whim. But that's just shit-frosting on the shit cake. I was exhausted by non-sjws, too.)
So- my best guess-- in taking my fair-share of the blame for the ire I've accumulated here on the Pyt-- is that Too Much Me is a factor. TMI about my personal life, too many posts, too wordy, TLDR, too-much thinking-out-loud without wrapping-it-up neatly, etc.
Another way I contribute to the problem-- is that people feel personally-attacked when I go-beyond discussing things In The Abstract, and address them as an individual person making the points they make. Such as screwtape making the general, abstract point that unvax'd people are 'guilty of manslaughter at the very least'... and me replying with
Dude, You're UnVax'd!
I don't-quite buy the 'conspiracies' explanation. For example, the point of that "History Of Ivermectin-Talk On The Pit" which I posted... was to show that I had only mentioned Ivermectin ONCE on the pit-- in a post skeptical-of Bret Weinstein-- prior to Lsuoma's post debunking the Egyptian Ivermectin study. And I accepted his debunk. And Lsuoma already had me on 'ignore' at that time. So his memory is fictitious. Apologies for repeating that example... yet again... but it is such a perfect example.
I think the 'conspiracy theories' accusation is a product of a moment-in-time. The accusation was born during the 2020 election race, and at that time Trump would call-out the 'deep state' leakers colluding with the partisan 'fake news' media to defeat him, by fudging the truth. In retrospect, it's clear Trump was correct. But at-the-time, his opponents reacted by smearing him & his supporters as delusional conspiracy theorists. I think Lsuoma felt confident when he labelled several-of-us-here the same way. But 2021 has vindicated the accused, exposed the accusers, and made a hot-topic relevant issue... of whether establishment 'adult' mainstream 'expert' narratives & authorities have grown dangerously incompetent, corrupt, vicious, unfit.