Comrades, I started using this app a few days ago and I have to recommend it. It's a language exchange app. So far it's helped me spend a lot less time arguing with strangers on twitter. I'm addicted to this app instead, but I think it's a healthier addiction. Basically, if you speak English, people around the world really want to talk with you. A lot of those people aren't going to get angry if you say that X Western country sucks. For me, I'm surrounded in my daily life by incredibly annoying white liberals and fascists, so it's actually really refreshing and therapeutic for me to be able to say that America sucks and to get people actually agreeing with me. The exchange might seem unequal but I think it's a win-win. I want to vibe with left-adjacent people, they want to learn English.
If you're a cis dude like me, using the app is going to be different than if you're a woman or trans obviously. Twice now I've been in group conversations where a Black English-speaking woman expressed doubts about getting married, only to have like a swarm of dudes (of many different races actually) going apeshit over the idea of female athletes defeating male athletes in sports. It went from "I'm not sure about getting married" to "people have market value, women want men who can provide, men want physically attractive women, I'm not sexist but Serena Williams says she couldn't beat Roger Federer," and on and on and on. This seems to happen in the evenings when these eternally dateless dudes get off work / give up exploiting their workers and log on to harass women. I avoid people on the app who have western flags basically, but these are also opportunities for radicalization, and both women in these rooms were listening and agreeing when I talked about how marriage is evil, the bourgeois family is a social construct, etc., etc. The dudes on the other hand would just not shut the fuck up. They are seriously freaked out by the idea that women might be human beings who don't want to be their slaves.
What else? It's nice speaking with Chinese people. Not all of them are crazy about China but the vast majority are so far. I've talked a lot with Algerians. They tell me school is free there and that the government will even pay you to become a doctor. One said yesterday that the current president is giving away homes to people. On the other hand, there are issues with liberals who want to learn English and escape their countries to come to America. An Iranian I spoke with was desperate to move to fucking Texas, ugh. I also spoke with a Venezuelan who had moved to Chile and who told me she hates communism. I didn't know she was a gusano until it was too late. Yesterday though I briefly spoke in Spanish with a Mexican who agreed with me when I said that Americans are barbarians. She had been complaining earlier about the USA and Canada.
Basically, I just have had a lot of interesting conversations and it made me feel good. There aren't a ton of people to talk with where I live and they're all fucking white liberals or fascists so this is a major relief. My spouse is on vacation so I was going nuts—I really needed to just vibe with adults. I just wanted to let hexbear know that if you're in a similar situation you should check this app out. I subscribed for a month ($12) but kind of regret it, it might be better to have some self-imposed limits on this app since an hour of talking with these people is probably enough for the day.