@schizanon Y'know, I shouldn't say this, but I have thought about your comment for a while

I don't think I'm a sanctimonious pedant at all times, with all people, but some of my recent comments have trended in that direction

In my defense: I have seen many cherished spaces ruined by trolls and grifters, who have even turned that into a strategy for power. I went to Mastodon to avoid it. It saddens me that the rising generation has known no other ways.

But I could be less snippy about it

@manlycoffee That's what I thought.

I've met you in person, and you seem like you have intelligent things to say.

In the fediverse, there's no engagement algorithm and it's relatively rare to reshare bad takes. There are other ways to provoke discussion here, and personally, I wish you would avail yourself of them. I find trolling very dull.

But, if what you want from social media is to find opposing tribes and make them "livid", perhaps you should go to X, The Everything App

@manlycoffee Is there some thesis behind this image

@manlycoffee @cube_drone It’s sometimes been called the “wellness to QAnon pipeline” and has been covered by many researchers and outlets. Here’s just one https://amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/aug/02/everything-youve-been-told-is-a-lie-inside-the-wellness-to-facism-pipeline

I know someone who is an osteopath here in Vancouver - that profession straddles esoteric and mainstream medical knowledge. Their whole community is pretty antivax and prone to conspiracy thinking about it. So the person I know would probably be pro-vax in isolation but is deeply torn and hides their true opinions

@cube_drone @manlycoffee The BCG have more common ground with the BCC than you might think

The old joke about the BC Greens is that they’re “Tories on bikes”. There are socialists in their tent but they have a right wing too

The BC Conservatives are the new kind of “conservative”, meme-fueled populism

There is a growing constituency for trad-pilled suburban folks who espouse purity-of-fluids conspiracy consumerism. That sort of person could vote Green or Conservative