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Way to avoid my point.

No you assholes choose any culture war thing as proof someone is a horrible person, and then act like heroes when you make fun of them like middle school mean girls.

Look you guys can keep doing this bullshit but I'm out.

This shit is immature and stupid. I also get the sneaking suspicion that a lot of this "resistance" shit is done by people who just want an excuse to be cruel.

Either way, it doesn't work. A full decade of shitting on Trump and the end result is that he's more popular than ever.

I swear most of you are just assholes looking for manufacturer moral justification to bully people.

I feel like in a few years Valve is gonna have another go at Steamboxes, and both Sony and Microsoft are going to end up being caught off guard.

At this point you're clearly intentionally misrepresenting what I'm saying so you don't have to question your own beliefs in the slightest.

I feel you're being disrespectful of my viewpoints, and intentionally being obstinate in refusing to understand them.

I am mad about toxic behavior that is justified by liberal rhetoric. It is more egregious when it comes to sexism, but that is not the only issue. These behaviors are upsetting to watch, and it is frustrating to live in an environment where this is not only justified but portrayed as moral.

This post is about the real world. As in, in person social interactions. That limits your options, and means you have to on some tolerate things that frustrate you or become a hermit.

I live in a city of moderate liberals. I am a nerdy college educated millennial. While I have made a choice to avoid the worst of it after witnessing a lot of things that just crossed the line for me, on some level I simply have to live with elements of liberal culture that I find toxic.

I have no idea where you live that you can find people that perfectly match your political/moral philosophy in such numbers where it's possible to meet people and strike up friendships, but let me assure you that isn't how it works where I live.

A lot of my friends are good people overall, but do or believe at least one thing that frustrates me. I consider that part of life. However there's some line I have to draw. In my experience the type of people who are extremely vocal about being liberal and how morally awful conservatives behave in really shitty ways, but get away with it by leveraging progressive rhetoric.

I have made a decision that on some level that rhetoric is bullshit, and to not involve myself with people who do things that I think are beyond the pale regardless of their justification. That by definition means rejecting or displaying extreme skepticism in regards to some parts of liberal culture. Hence the "more conservative". You seem hung up on the words conservative, so you can use the term "less liberal" if it makes you feel better. I am friends with a grand total of person who defines themselves as conservative in absolute terms.

What you're saying makes sense in theory, but I don't think it makes sense in practice. The word that has defined politics since the mid 2010s is intersectionalism. There simply isn't any sort of genuine political lane for, say, a socialist who hates #girlboss culture. I've actually watched the video you sent me and while I appreciate it, the opinion is rather niche. There isn't really a corresponding political faction or identity to really latch on to.

I also personally haven't experienced this lack of intersectionalism when I "touched grass". In general there is such a tight coupling of all things political to the point where you can do things like guess someone's opinion on the middle east by how they feel about bat roosts in suburban areas. To be fair, that has faded significantly since immediately post covid. However, it's still strongly present. There simply aren't people I meet in real life who espouse those kind of unique political values.

At the end of the day, I'm sort of in a rut. I can avoid certain people who behave in what I define as a toxic manner, but I can't really avoid all of this toxicity in the context of modern society. Identity politics coding is everywhere, and on some level I need to "pick a side".

I get where you're coming from, but I think you misread my original post. I said more conservative.

Pretend the temperature is 0 degrees outside. The next week, it is thirty degrees warmer. Someone would be 100 percent correct in saying that it's much warmer today than yesterday. However it would still be objectively cold.

That is what I am saying. I'm not conservative, but I am more conservative. I don't see myself belonging to either group.

I also live in a liberal area of the country. I don't really have to worry about running into someone who says homosexuality is a sin or a woman who isn't white and pure on her wedding day is a whore. On the other hand I do run into women blatantly hate men or will leverage tolerance rhetoric to gaslight and cheat on their partners.

Look Trump is a uniquely awful candidate, but why should I be associated with liberals? I'm a Jewish man. In liberal culture sexism towards men is normalized and antisemitism is normalized.

There's nothing stopping me from just coming up with my own philosophy while treating both liberal and conservative culture with skepticism. While right now that's gonna be more on the liberal side, I don't see why I should associate myself with people who normalize toxic behavior towards people of my religion/gender. That's basically asking to be next on the target list.

I always bring up the ethical non monogamy because it's the most objectively insane thing. It's so obviously toxic and unfair. It would soon obviously be considered emotional abuse if genders were reversed. Yet the more liberal someone is, the more they'll suggest I'm sexist for having an issue with that behavior.

You're literally making excuses for women cheating on and gaslighting men. Bullshit you'd be behaving the same way of genders are reversed.

You didn't read my comment with an open mind. You asked for my input so you could give me specific things to lecture about.

I am not in an "ethical non monogamous" relationship. I have never been. However I have seen multiple men in long term relationships get strung along because their partner decided they want to leverage dating apps to have a harem. It has always ended up being a slow motion train wreck, that always ends up essentially being akin to cheating plus gaslighting. They always justify it in the same way you are doing.

You are sexist, plain and simple. You are sexist because you hold men and women to completely different standards in a comical way. You just use liberal rhetoric to justify it.

Your mentality is incredibly common. The world is full of assholes justifying shitty behavior under the guise of liberalism. It's just an updated version of how evangelicals operated in the 80s and 90s. I'm sick of giving this shit a free pass.