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For years I thought (because I was told) that my views are too radical and far-right - that I should follow more of what others think - and that I should work more to "fit in". This place, and all of you, have shown me the absolute opposite is true: that, in fact, I am NOT alone, and there are many many others who feel as I do.

Some of us live more isolated lives than others for all kinds of reasons: maybe it's physical isolation, or, like in my case, more of a social isolation. I think we all need to remember we are not alone in this. A lot of us are scared to let our real feelings about things show. This place, and all of you, have given me more confidence to show my feelings in situations when I thought it was appropriate, and doing so have massively paid off much more than it has fizzled.

So thank you - to all of you. We clearly have a long war to fight here, but I appreciate knowing I am not alone.

For years I thought (because I was told) that my views are too radical and far-right - that I should follow more of what others think - and that I should work more to "fit in". This place, and all of you, have shown me the absolute opposite is true: that, in fact, I am NOT alone, and there are many many others who feel as I do. Some of us live more isolated lives than others for all kinds of reasons: maybe it's physical isolation, or, like in my case, more of a social isolation. I think we all need to remember we are not alone in this. A lot of us are scared to let our real feelings about things show. This place, and all of you, have given me more confidence to show my feelings in situations when I thought it was appropriate, and doing so have massively paid off much more than it has fizzled. So thank you - to all of you. We clearly have a long war to fight here, but I appreciate knowing I am not alone.

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you can openly discuss your views anywhere you like. Don't be a pussy

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A place where everyone knows about? A place that people actually know about and visit? An open forum for the masses? Don't be daft. If we could take all the information gleaned on this site and were capable of disseminating the truth widely so that regular, ignorant people could understand it, consume it, we'd have a real platform.

But we don't have that. We don't have a place where we can win people over. Either one at a time or a thousand.

I'm not a pussy, you're just ignorant to what its going to take to turn the tide in our favor.

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I meant in real life not online. I may have assumed that you did too

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Well we can talk about anything to anyone anywhere in real life. Obvious exceptions of course. But if I got up on the steps of my capital and started trying to win people over one by one, I'd make very little progress. Sure, the odd person coming by would give me some time and maybe trust me enough to keep looking for the truth. But that isn't going to fix our problem.

I can't go on reddit and take all our info with me to spread to the masses. I'll be shut down in less than an hour. Probably less than 10 mins. What we need is a place people know about, bc as much as I loved Voat and now Poal, let's face it, there's not THAT many people here.

They have done an exceptional job at keeping us contained in our own little chambers, not being able to influence anyone outside of here.

Rumble and Truth Social are good starting points. I'll give them that. If we could link here, those two and Twitter, THAT would be something to work with.

My belief is, until something happens that pushes "normal" people over the edge and into the arms of information that will, and should, anger them, the Left is just going to keep marching forward. Leaving destruction in their wake.

Someone posted something here yesterday about asking progressives what they hate, "Nazis" being the obvious answer. Which basically boils the whole conflict down to basics. We must become what they hate. Maybe not under the name of Nazism, but an ideological opposition coalition. Call it whatever you want. Until the day comes where we WANT to be hated for being the opposite of our enemies, and banding together under a banner of our ideologies, we WILL lose.