Real fucking talk, dude? The reason your life is one endless hate-filled echo chamber is because the only response you will permit to any discussion is "you are absolutely correct my lord protector allow me to tickle your balls while I suck your cock" because that's the thing that gets you the most online juice.

You won't so much as permit an expression of "I agree, and" in your private Idaho of hatred. It's un-fucking-real, dude. Like, my friends were the four twerps who marched against Desert Fucking Shield (and got death threats for the rest of the year because of it). I have voted liberal in every fucking election since 1992, general primary and special. The ACLU has gotten my money monthly for nearly 20 years and the Medicaid being targeted? 34% of my patients. But there is literally nothing I can say other than "you're absolutely right, Ben, lemme gargle those balls for you" that doesn't have you shitting down my neck.

You know who doesn't do this? Trump voters. I had one of my friends say to me "I think he'll bring stability" and when I said "did he bring stability last time?" the guy changed the subject. I had another friend say "you can't sell a bunch of stuff without buying a bunch of stuff back" and when I responded "that's not how this works, that's not how any of this works, this is known and accepted going back to David Ricardo" the guy changed the subject. Nobody goes "GDIAF shitcamel" when you respond "yeah I agree, things are tough" to them.

You are so fucking twitterpoisoned that you can't even engage in a discussion that isn't some form of "NO I AM THE OUTRAGEST" because fuckin' Zuck'n'crew have trained you that the key to life enjoyment is to bark at everyone who looks you in the eye. And then you sit here going "my life is shit everyone hates me why can't I find any friends."

It's worth a fucking golf clap. You have been so shaped by that which you hate that you don't even see how fucking profitable you are. You've got this idea that you're a free thinker when in fact you're a pavlovian Slitscan potato. Whatever you do, don't touch grass, you might lose some valuable outrage points! Whatever you do, don't hear nuance you might drop your engagement rating!

You know why nobody talks about the liberal protests of the '70s? Because they were fucking annoying.

Georgia Straight has been an indie hippie paper since forever so those quotes are definitely sarcastic. Here's the New York Times:

Note that these are legit National Guard troops legit opening fire on children, to which the general consensus, as measured by Gallup, was "Eleven per cent placed responsibility on the National Guard, 31 per cent expressed no opinion, and 58 per cent put the blame on demonstrating students." People forget - Nixon invades Cambodia, students bury the constitution in protest, college kids go downtown and break shop windows, ROTC building catches fire and college kids block the firefighters. Next day protesters are ordered to disperse, national guard uses tear gas and bayonets, protesters throw rocks, NG opens fucking fire on kids and public perception was so firmly in the camp of "these annoying fucking kids" that they got blamed for their own shooting.

The next ten years were all about rich white brats blowing up banks, here's a book about a bunch of tedious white children that now teach at Columbia. Any social progress the hippies wanted was completely arrested because they stopped fucking listening. Because here's the shit I want you to hear, Ben:

it's not like you're going to stop receiving your opinion from other people.

All them annoying fucking hippies of the '60s? They became the yuppies of the '80s and the 'boomers of now. They believe what their friends believe, no core principles whatsoever other than I-me-mine. I'm sure you picture yourself as a free thinker but the fact that you can't engage in any discussion without biting the head off of whoever you're talking to should give you pause. Especially since for brown people? The '70s were a fucking massacre. The people you're shouting at are just as white as you are, have just as few brown friends and by turning them off to any discussion because they aren't even allowed to agree with you unless their hand is down your shorts, they tune the fuck out.

You're tuning me the fuck out.

You're tuning everyone the fuck out.