There are only so many more braindead, agenda-fueled smug remarks I can deal with at this point and I’ve lost all hope of changing most of these people. Just this evening I commented a one sentence defense of China’s foreign policy on reddit only to get every single one of my comments from the past week bombarded by a guy spamming Taiwan emojis and calling me a “CCP slave girl who should go to the Xinjiang rape camps”. It’s tiring
Recently, I made a comment critical of Ukraine under (I think) an r/pics post, and unsurprisingly, I got called mentally ill, and someone sent me that mental help thing that Redditors like to troll people with.
On one hand, posting or just browsing echo chambers probably isn’t the best thing, and anything you post or comment is just preaching to the choir.
On the other, going to other platforms with views different from yours often just seems futile, because it’ll likely be an echo chamber for another view, and even if it’s not, people rarely ever discuss divisive topics online with an open mind— all they want is dick-measuring contests disguised as “debates” and to own the other side with facts and logic or whatever, and I’m guilty of this myself.