justawoman
I was Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
Once upon a time I was a Republican and then I went to college and turned into the leftist liberal progressive Democrat that hid under your bed and no I was not a man and yes I was addicted to downvotes, every time I got one it was like a bump of that sweet smoking gun. Also I did 99% of this on mobile in my bathtub, so if I didn't respond to someone it’s because my screen was too tiny to read everything before I got out of the bath. I'm not active on this site anymore because the current mod team is not being consistent in enforcement when it comes to moderation and it's causing a brain drain which isn't making it fun to debate here anymore, so I'm voting with my proverbial wallet. But apparently I can't stop hate-reading this site, so maybe that previous sentence was a little false.
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justawoman
I was Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
9mo ago
I just wanted to chime in that I personally think your thoughts written here were so well spoken, worthy of consideration and discussion and sympathetic to many opinions in the way I think your intentions are such and that which the Motte rules encourages that they resurrected my lurking ghost to my corpse to tell you someone out there sees what you say here and appreciates your effort in this post. I think if more posts used language like yours here, the brain drain happening on this site currently will be dialed back a bit.
I've also skimmed and read your responses to what you've said from other users and I want to additionally commend you for what I think is a genuine effort to remain calm and give everyone fair questions and chances to explain themselves. Keep it up!
Now, um. Remember remember the 5th of November. My soul now leaves this husk.
Still lurking, endlessly entertained from the void. Amadan continues to hemorrhage the site into an echo-chamber, self-made-human's addiction to the attention they get from here got so bad they started using A.I in an effort to make this place their Substack, faceh continues to scream, magicalkittycat puts up the good fight but since the moderation is fundamentally broken it's useless, but between the occasional Astral Codex Ten "are we the baddies?" comment, Data Secrets Lox literally rooting for the glassing of the Middle East and the Motte waiting for marching orders about birthright citizenship, I feel like a kid at a circus with too many attractions to choose from. I put my fist in the air for you though, @magicalkittycat. I know you've got good intentions.
I just can't help myself. Adrenaline is such the drug, but hope is on the horizon; I go to the gym now. I can now run 6.0mph for a sustained 7-8 minutes. I like to think if I can reach a ten minute mile, I can stop bad habits, and reading opinions I fundamentally don't respect from people who I also fundamentally don't respect in subconscious hopes of seeing their eureka moment to fuel my hope my estranged parents will have their eureka moment is one of the worst habits I own. Plus I've already seen the eureka moments from all three of my witch covens and they're never as satisfying as they are imagined in my head. Maybe when I hit my ten minute mile it'll all just slide into place and opening the Motte will never cross my mind seriously again.
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