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by gfosco 1940 days ago
You know pretty much nothing about me, unsurprisingly. I certainly don't need your pity, lol, this last year has been one of the best.
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For what it's worth, I'm not actually surprised you left Facebook when you did. A solid half year of covid meant that you stopped having to interact with folks, in person, that might've reminded you what real people that disagree with you are like, rather than just the caricatures.

If you actually think you're as good as you are, I'd dare you to do the "talk to someone that thinks differently than you". I wouldn't be surprised if you'd learn a thing or two. :)

It's odd to me that you think I've insulated myself with only people that think like me. It's like you don't know me at all. I'm literally the person who reached out and had 60 different meetings with all sorts there, and continued to maintain bipartisan group chats. Try to realize that you appear to be the one who thinks I'm a caricature.
> I'm literally the person who reached out and had 60 different meetings with all sorts there,

Yup, and I commended you for it. However, that was in 2017. I don't know how carefully you read my original comment, but it can be summarized up as "Fosco started out great, but he's been slowly getting worse". :)

> and continued to maintain bipartisan group chats.

I'd ask you to poll the folks there about how representative of the political spectrum the folks in those chats think they are and if they think any of the parts of the political spectrum are missing from those chats.

The only part of the spectrum missing from my group chats is the communists. It's just so obvious that you're not taking your own advice.
I don't know very many people in this world who would call this past year one of their best. This false bravado barely masking the petulance from being called out publicly is really not a good look for you. Maybe your god-emperor can pull off deflecting his own failures in this manner, but you surely cannot.
Is it really unthinkable to you that someone could've had a great past 12 months? I'm guessing you wear two masks.
And the fact that you feel like this year's one of the best for you is exactly why you deserve the pity...

The perceived support of a community is addictive. Hope you'll realize at some point what you're giving up to feed that addiction.