I feel you. I had my account deleted over there yesterday after just not being able to take their extremism and hostility anymore. Sadly it was the second account I had deleted as I left the first time after their reaction to James Gunn’s firing and seeing a bunch of “liberals”cheering the results of actions by alt right trolls. I eventually went back as it’s just hard to find a forum with good gaming news coverage and active game OTs. News mostly gets posted here too now, but game OT activity is low outside of major AAA releases. Hopefully that will continue to improve as activity as a whole increases.
But yeah, I just realized that despite being very far left in my views, never voting for a candidate on the right in my two+ decades of voting etc. that I just don’t fit in over there. Their views are just too extremist and I’m not going to apologize for making good money, owning a nice house and caring about what’s best for me and my wife above and beyond everything else, all while voting left and supporting liberal causes.
That place is just a magnet for people with severe mental illness, people who’ve failed at life (be it their own fault or bad luck or both) and struggle to get by and so on. Hence all the suicidal posts, and people being angry and bitter and resentful toward anyone who’s doing even ok, much less those of us doing well for ourselves.
Fuck that noise. I feel sorry for people struggling, but life’s too short to be around a bunch of miserable fucks trying to pull everyone down like crabs in a bucket to wallow in their misery. I vote against my own fiscal interests as a liberal voter with a $200k+ household income, pay $4,500+ in property tax, and pay a lot of sales tax as we spend a lot due to not having kids or caring about retiring early (we love our jobs and save plenty to retire in our 60s and live well). That’s the most help unfortunate people are getting from me. I’m not a people person and it’s not my fault that many poor vote against their self interests for social issue reasons or that the government blows our tax dollars on defense spending instead of helping its citizenry.
Thst sucks, but I’m not going to drive myself mentally ill over it, nor hang out with the angry, bitter nutjobs in the looney bin even if I share most of their views. Yes, I hate Trump and what he stands for and the policies he’s enacted, but it’s had zero actual impact on my quality of life. Thus I’m not going to let it make me miserable or crazy. Instead of being a deranged keyboard warrior I write/call my representatives, donate to environmental causes etc., all while continuing to enjoy my life and the fruits of my labor. I will also keep voting for liberal candidates who will hopefully change government spending in ways that help the unfortunate. The extremists who want/expect more than that can go fuck themselves.