yeah, but living a nice, protected victim status and whining 24/7 about imaginary meanies is even easier. Why take responibility, when you just can blame the bogeyman.

The funny thing is that they ALL fail to realize what "phobia" actually means.

Oh yeah the "professional victims" that scream bloody murder over simple disagreements, calling for the censorship of any dissenting opinion and even actual hate and wishing harm on those they disagree with...

Someone had a perfect term for them: "Cry-Bullies".

Yeah the phobia thing is a pet peeve of mine since it means an "irrational fear" of something. Disagreeing with something is not "fearing" it.

But it's so much more convenient to leap to conclusions. In this busy world of social networking, nobody has time to actually get to know people anymore, Axle. Come on. Rather than ask for clarification, you Google the situation that offended you, read the most extreme article or meme, and proceed to judge from there.

That's about the gist of it these days.

They love their echo chambers. ^_^

It reminds me of my senile grandmother... One of those "If it is in the newspaper then it MUST be true!" Even if that newspaper was "The National Enquirer" talking about "Elvis Presley Gay Marrying Bigfoot, with the Loch Ness Monster being the priest of the wedding". She honestly believed it because it was "in the news".

That has just become "If it is on the first page results of Google or Wikipedia, it must be TRUE!"

So many freaking delusional people out there that cannot think for themselves or research something beyond one place without being plugged directly into "The Matrix".

Google, like the country of Canada, is indeed an echo chamber. Their search engine is skewed and people are using DuckDuckGo to search for news because they are neutral and far less biased. Google itself is not different from using Baidu, a Chinese search engine, or using internet in North Korea because information is censored to fit the narrative. Of course this is also prevalent in Vietnam too but their agenda is completely different from Google's agenda.

I hope one day, dissenters from tech giants create some kind of open-source quantum internet grid with a universal search engine that is like DuckDuckGo but so popular, it will overshadow Google in general along with whatever necessities computers need to operate in accordance with their purposes. When that happens, teachers in the future will be talking about the time that we live in when tech giants used to control information to try to brainwash people because the government will not do it until they are paid by these tech giants to follow their agendas.

I can't say much on this particular topic now because FA staff will ban me again for it, since they love censorship more than freedom of expression, and freedom of speech, because the truth is "triggering".

But yeah, I understand what you mean entirely.

That sucks but still, there's a huge difference between loving someone of the same gender and taking drugs and undergoing invasive treatments to "be more of themselves". If these "trans" truly accepted themselves for who they are, they wouldn't need drugs and these invasive procedures. Canada is a bloody mess because their dumbass government under Justin Trudeau is enabling this and I have a relative in Canada who is a nurse who works in a hospital and she tells me that trans patients are a nightmare because there's a lot of psychiatric and physiological elements involved and wrong medications may cause negative reactions with whatever meds they are on. And the worst part is that Canadian taxpayers are paying for this.

The thing is they don't accept themselves and aren't happy with how their bodies are, which is why they get the surgery.

Is there anything wrong with a guy who, say, wants to tattoo his entire body so it looks like he has scales, file his teeth to points, split his tongue so it's forked, among other pretty extreme body mod procedures? I certainly don't think so.

The only thing with trans people (besides the aforementioned procedures being more complicated) is that it's done for a deeper psychological and/or psychiatric reasons; they just aren't comfortable with the gender/body they were born with. And if they can be proven to be of sound mind (and being uncomfortable with being born a certain way doesn't equal crazy), then I say who the hell cares what they do with themselves? Let 'em.

Also, "taxpayers paying for [insert thing I don't like]" is, AFAIK, an oversimplification of nationalized healthcare or, well, nationalized everything.

The right to disagree... Whatever happened to that? I feel like in America, I don't know if I'm really awake in this nightmare. The whole Google scandal with James Damore is disturbing... I looked up to Google because they were innovative and pro-business but hearing about their political views and groupthink is disturbing. I can't believe people in the headquarters of Google literally bawwed their eyes out when Trump one and shouted obscenities about white males. I just... I don't know. The same companies that claims to promote freedom of information are also dictating information for their employees. I was expecting more freedom in America than in Vietnam but I feel like my level of freedom is about the same as if I was living in Vietnam; the only difference is that here in America, views are more geared towards the left and Vietnam's views in practice tends to be more conservative than they claim.

I have a somewhat distant family member that worked at google a few years ago that would constantly tell us how it felt less like a job, and more like being a part of a cult.

America is an amazing country, as long as it keeps the whole liberty and freedom thing... These "all-controlling" big media companies are off their freaking rockers with how whipped up into a frenzy they are making people with their propaganda.

Disturbing... Yet Google's motto was "Don't be evil." How hypocritical.

I hope America keeps the whole liberty and freedom thing too but more importantly, I hope someone creates some kind of universal computer system and quantum internet grid thing where you are truly able to search for unbiased information because Google is not good for searching news since they are biased hence more people use search engines like DuckDuckGo for news.

There's still a right to disagree. The issue is that Donald Trump's behavior (the crass, rude and idiotic things he says) goes pretty much unpunished (after all, he's the President!), emboldening people to behave the same way on both sides, resulting in a complete breakdown of civility. The liberals are reactionary, whereas the conservatives, many of them, at least, are exploding because they've always wanted to confront people who oppose them and have kept their negative feelings private, pushed down inside themselves for so long, until, when they feel they've been given implicit permission to voice their feelings, they just blow up.

Many conservative white Americans (especially religious ones) behave as though they're a long-persecuted minority. Because they see the world through the lens of groups, they view the inclusion of (actual) minorities as their exclusion. Rightly or wrongly, they believe that an increased focus on minorities (especially immigrants) means less focus on them and their problems. Not helping matters is the fact that the Democrats are overly focused on minority issues, and have made the mistake of talking about the poor all the time as opposed to the shrinking middle class. They do care about white middle class Americans... they just wrongly ignore them when campaigning and go after minorities and poor whites which allows understandably angry middle class whites to feel left out, allowing Republicans to pour a honeyed potion in their ear.

Thank you political correctness. *rolls eyes*

*GASP!!*

Are you being sarcastic?!?!?

That's not PC!

*calls in the "love and tolerance Gestapo" to take you away for "re-education"*

I am! I highly recommend it. Makes a great tension reliever.

I know that, but then there are people who say things like "I wish criminals would target only liberals."

you're following actual hate group accounts on FA, I think your opinion on this matter is invalid.

"Earthshine: you're following actual hate group accounts on FA, I think your opinion on this matter is invalid."

My response To: earthshine

lol You post a comment on MY page then block me from responding, what a little coward you are.

Oh no!

It's the communist/fascist butthurt/offended patrol here to let me know I wrongthinked outside of their collectivist/authoritarian echo-chamber!

Gasp!

What ever will I do?

Oh yeah, not give a flying fuck what you think.

Cheers M8!