This place turns into a hug-box sometimes, which is ironic, given its original intention. It also isn't intrinsically bad, having a hug-box to go to on occasion. I definitely needed that during the pandemic, it is useful for Poalrs like me, that live in very liberally dominated areas. I was glad to know I was not the sole human in existence that thought the way I did during the pandemic. You need to have a base of people you generally agree with, if only to show yourself that you are not insane, other people can and do think the same way you do. The problem with everyone constantly agreeing with each other is that you won't ever grow in terms of your belief. I do occasionally need to have my beliefs challenged, just to prove they are correct, or make me re-evaluate my stance entirely. And you can occasionally provide that. I used to think Poal was full of top-tier elite thinkers. And, I actually think it was, for a short time. But the older I get, the more I realize that most people just reflexively think whatever the people around them think. Or maybe they don't think it at all, but they assume that everyone else around them thinks it, so they get too scared to talk about their actual opinions. I think that is my biggest regret from the Covid fiasco. I didn't "see through it" instantly, like a lot of people claim they did. I was masking back when we were told not to mask. People looked at my like an insane person, back then. But I changed my mind around April 2020. The people just weren't dying. And I did not tell people what I actually believe, because I was a fucking coward. I was afraid that is I told them the truth about what I thought, they would never talk to me again. What a cowardly way to act. I only told them what I thought if they asked. I should've told the retards they were being retards when I first noticed them being retards. I guess you learn. I talked to a lot of my family recently, and they were all cowards in a different way than I was. But I need to acknowledge I was a coward in a worse way. I knew everything that was happening was retarded, and I cared about my own status in their minds, more than I cared about their well-being. And I will never live that down.