I love interacting with you all very much, and I know there’s a lot of important political issues in the world going on right now. I love my Linux Mint setup, I support Palestine and trans people, and I’ve blazed through all of OG Star Trek, TNG, Voyager, and am now on DS9.
But I also want to discuss Luka to the Lakers and Kendrick calling Drake a pedophile and getting 5 Grammy’s, a tour, and a Superbowl halftime show out of it, you know? I wanna talk about your country’s Eurovision entries. Am I just not in the right communities?
I haven’t followed pop culture since about 1985. I’ve never heard of Kendrick or Drake (apart from Sir Francis Drake and Nick Drake, and of course you can’t mean either of them, given they died in 1596 and 1974 respectively).
I like it here, not least because I understand a lot more of the things people talk about than I ever did on Reddit. Perhaps the users here tend to be older on average, I don’t know. There are certainly fewer people than over there, and that must account for some of the differences in content scope.
All the power to you! I think I also like it here for similar reasons as you. I can get a lot of advice and perspectives from people older than me without being called a slur.
For example: I learned about Iran-Contra from someone who was actually living during it and explained to me why exactly it was seen as Carter’s failure, when I have the power of hindsight and history and can see how it was clearly manufactured. At no point was I called a bleeding heart or libtard during that explanation, even though the person made it clear they voted for Reagan. It was nice!