No Shit man. I didn't expect to see a section like that in a weed forum, until I accidentally found it. I was like WTF. I posted that I didn't really think this is the place for politics, and the haters came from everywhere.
Boveda and Integra Boost are extremely small divisions when you compare them to their parent companies. Both of their parent companies make all their money from supplying the pharmaceutical and other major industries with desiccant packs and humidity regulating packs. Every home grower who uses their humidity regulating packs in their jars could stop using them and it would be like you dropping a dollar on your way into a store...they probably would barely notice. Boveda is also hugely popular for cigar storage. It’s not like they came up with the idea to trick home growers into using their packs to help extend the viability of their weed.
It’s a one sided echo chamber in there and those who frequent it aren’t willing to have a civil discussion. If you don’t agree with them on everything then you just have to be a far right fascist who loves everything the big bad orange man does...because you can’t have any issues with the left unless you support everything on the right. It’s just embarrassing to read.
but this form of extremism actually incorporates a lot of fascistoid qualities in the first place.
I couldn't agree more, and it really is sad that people can't see that they are being sucked into such a hateful way of thinking. I have a sister on the far right who buys into the QAnon bullshit, and another on the far left who buys into all their bullshit, and it can be embarrassing to watch and listen to them at family gatherings once they both get a little alcohol in them. I love them both dearly but they are both letting the media and the internet groups to consume their lives and pin them against their own family members who have a different way of thinking.
The Internet, and social media sites in general, have been a bittersweet addition to society. While they have helped bring people together, and helped bring so much information to those who otherwise would have little access to it, they have also torn people apart and fed them full of a lot of false information. While I don't agree with what Ted Kaczynski did, and I do believe he had some major issues with controlling his anger, his take on how technology was going to do more than harm than good to society really rings true to me. There's a great documentary about him on Netflix that a lot of people should watch. Even the people who hunted him down said they agreed with a lot of how he felt about the subject but not how he chose to spread his message.
Divide and conquer....
and this is their personal motive, formulate a self-styled justification in order to live out their anger.
I'm a member of a lot of firearms forums and, while they are obviously more far right oriented, even they aren't as tightly focused of an echo chamber as the politics section is here. While the throw out "libtard" pretty often, there are at least a lot of discussions from both sides and everything in between. One of the biggest firearms forums I'm a member of even has very civil discussions with members who are also members of left leaning firearms groups like "The Pink Pistols". Imaging that, huh?
Why? So people who have a different view can be ridiculed and insulted incessantly?can we get a consensus to move this thread to the politics forum now its completely derailed?
