Yeah fair. I used to go to more stuff but a lot of it is the thought of getting covid freaks me out and I don’t live somewhere with a lot of meetup groups around anymore. Honestly I’ve always seen it as the other way, where irl spaces (especially ones that take money) are run by hostile or incompatible forces, and the internet as something with more exceptions to that, even now that it’s become worse.

I hear what you’re saying but I think I would probably never talk to anyone without the internet and be very less sane

What a depressing comment section this article has

Seems like a shame that it is so difficult to get past the assumption that someone is representing a generic political agenda by deploying empty rhetoric rather than raising a disagreement with the specific thing they said they object to from their own perspective.

I’d like to imagine countless instances of this that we never hear about because there just isn’t anything concrete to write a news article about