I ll start : I have been following a pretty known tech/Linux journalist, and always found he is a fun dude to listen to, with interesting tech takes

The fact that he is also very openly “american conservative” (aka, religious & weapon nut, anti abortion, etc) annoys me, but i keep those things separate. And he does keep it separate too (politics channel vs tech channel), which is a great decision.

  • phillaholic@lemm.ee
    54·
    11 months ago

    That’s a wide spectrum of associations. Have you ever considered you may be bad at articulating your views?

    • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
      3·
      11 months ago

      More like interactions would play out thusly:

      Them: All X is Y

      Me: hmm, it may not be helpful to paint with such a broad brush. Sometimes X isn’t Y. (Gives example)

      Them: wow, sounds like something a (insert opposing tribe here) would say.

      Basically, this

      • phillaholic@lemm.ee
        42·
        11 months ago

        Using that as an example, if you spend a lot of most of your time let’s say defending little details about bad people it can come off as someone muddying the waters on purpose to downplay the awful things they do.

        Or maybe your just on some shitty subs full of dumb people 🤷‍♂️