(05-27-2023, 08:24 PM)loam Wrote:(05-27-2023, 08:16 PM)NightskyeB4Dawn Wrote: I know it is the easiest route, to go along and comply...
That's the entire point.
Just had lunch with a colleague who admitted to this very thing. He's a senior guy and one of the big consulting firms. The woke agenda is off the scale. He has a wife and three kids, supported by a lifetime of hard work.
What are his choices now? Blow it all up or comply. He's complying, and it's not hard to understand why.
So if you make the internet a playground for the verified only, the suppression of any speech in opposition to the machine will be complete....just the way they'd prefer it.
The internet is already a playground and a trap. They can suppress, and will, anything they don't want to be on the internet. They can monitor every key stroke. They can shadow ban. They can delete anything you write and even cancel you.
I have been where your friend is at least three different times in my life.
I walked away from a six digit paycheck, because I was not willing to compromise, and I could not go along to get along. When I walked out of those doors I had three children, and a Mother to take care of, a mortgage, and a new car payment.
I had no idea where I was going to go, but I could at least look at myself in the mirror.
The second time and the third time was much easier, because I had built a reputation for being an honest, hard nworker, that had a strong backbone, so finding employment was very easy.
I am not telling anyone else what they can or should do. I am just saying that the decisions you make are your decisions, and you should take responsibility for them, regardless which excuse you use for why you did it.