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Can you be a contrarian to your own views?
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Late stage capitalism sucks, yet I have a corporate middle management job and I drink Coke and I drive a Toyota and I'm surfing Lemmy on a Google device. I don't think I'm trolling. And I don't know if it's even that contrarian. "There is no ethical consumption under capitalism"; unless I am ready to die, I have to participate in the system.
Thanks for saying that. I get a LOT of people who follow me on Lemmy and call me a troll. As in, there was a thread started last week to try to ban me from the entire fediverse (which of course didn't work).
But I'm not a troll, I just have lots of different varying and seemingly opposing viewpoints. It's not done "to spite others," it's done "in spite of others."
That's why I think you and I are different than trolls and/or hypocrites.
So maybe contrarian isn't the right word, but I don't know what else I would call it. But I don't have seemingly opposing views to piss people off. It's just how I am.
My hate-fanclub peeps worked on this just last week. Notice the 318 upvotes to get rid of me:
How can you be a troll when you joined today?
Oh, I've been around. I had to diversify and spread out my name. I'm transparent and use same username across instances because it's not about ban evasion, it's about not being centralized. I love the fediverse!
You can count on me not to fall into that category of people. You can even talk to me anytime you want with no anxiety attached.
Wow, that's very thoughtful!
And the same invitation goes out to you as well. Please feel free to DM me anytime about anything.
I don't have a discord, but I should make one. Until then, DM me here (or if I get banned from this instance) from any of my other instances. I use the same username for them.
I'm on the lemm.ee instance as well.
Have you ever speculated as to why you get banned so often?