Thank you, as I tried to allude to in other comments, I am open to learning and as I’ve aged I have less ego.

I appreciate your feedback on writing and I am going to put this down to a lesson of the perils of overthinking (not just writing words myself).

Oh sorry I misunderstood.

Do they say what he hates about each one?

Thank you.

Yea, the responses have not been what I expected, but I can see why and I’m open to learning to improve my voice as I really want to get involved with current affairs and bringing about change in the west.

I’ve lived in the UK all my life. I’ve been to the USA once and China nonce.

Anyway, it’s clear my post wasn’t put together well as it seems people think I’m saying China good, when I’m really not. I’m trying to say western media bias is a thing and although China has bad things, we do too and I wanted to open a discussion about this.

Me? I’m from the UK. Check my post history. First time posting anything about China and clearly I missed the mark in my execution of criticising media bias in the uk and USA.

Thank you. This is helpful.

I added an edit, but I want to be abundantly clear, however faltered, that my intention here was ton draw attention to western media bias and not to whitewash China in any way. I am aware of the things bad in China like Uyghurs, etc.

It’s clear so far that I failed, but i am open and expect constructive criticism as I want to be better and have a voice.

That’s fair criticism and clearly I am not well versed enough to be attempting to write about this topic. I’ll not do this again and I’ll remove this post soon.

Edit: I also want to highlight that I sourced this material and used a tool to help me write it challenge western media bias and not to whitewash China. I can see on reflection how it might seem that way.

That’s fair and I’ll end my posting on these kind of topics career here.

That’s constructive.

I was merely trying to get MY ideas into a someone coherent format and asking for constructive criticism.

Let’s end it here and you have a nice weekend.

Would you have any tips on how to structure an argument from a neutral place as I wasn’t trying to be biased here, I was looking at how I perceive the world.

Amazing. The sun is shining, it’s weekend, and I’ve just been indoor bouldering and hit 15/16 blacks routes rated V2-V4.

Shouldn’t have tried such an overhang as the last climb striving for that even number.

How about you OP?

I have heard of him actually, well I didn’t know his name but I’ve heard about him.

Exactly my point. You can’t expect people to change on their own and it’s on us to try and make the world a better place, as per our morals.

I wouldn’t say I need to, but more I would like to.

If people are voting against their own interests because they have been lied to then don’t we owe it people to try and get them to see how the world works?

If people are hating on immigrants and poor people rather than the class system that is extracting all the wealth from areas then surely having more people onside makes it easier to change the system.

I agree that most people are good people and maybe just misinformed or have had their frustrations weaponised against them.

Nah I’m pretty chill so imagine clone me would also be chill.

How do we tackle those problems you mentioned?

The reason I ask is I support your view here, but recently I’ve been downvoted a lot for having the opinion that I don’t blame people still using Twitter as I believe, like you, that most people are good people and can be reasoned out of what we believe are the wrong beliefs and that staying in those places to converse with them is better than Twitter becoming a right wing place and us chilling here in left wing ideology but at the end of that nobody learns anything they didn’t already know.

The hardest challenge in changing someone’s beliefs is that people don’t want to admit they were wrong or lied to or used or whatever and this makes it challenging if we can’t take our ego out of the equation.

Anecdotal proof that people can change is a YouTuber called JimmyTheGiant and he has mentioned several times how he went down the alt right pipeline but started to question things and now makes left leaning content.

I wish I was. I could just turn myself off.

Damn bro you gonna do me like that 😂

Any examples so we don’t just have to guess at what you and OP saw and neglected to highlight the ones in question?

I must not have explained that part well enough.

I was only asking for the last borrow of £70 back which was meant to be last Wednesday. The remaining £600 is already in a payment plan and once he has cleared his debts with other people first.

Thanks for the reply.

This is the major factor for me, as I waste so much time waiting around and stuff and for me time is the most precious thing. I don’t care about money really, as long as I can pay my bills and do my hobbies it’s secondary to having fun pursuing my hobbies.

You’re also spot on about how his time keeping is improved back when I would be getting fucked up with them more frequently. Which to me highlights their priorities. Now as an addict (recovering) myself I tend to give people a lot of slack because I get it and I get what comes from that lifestyle. It’s just recently it’s been stressing me more.

Maybe I’ve spoiled him too much too because now a lot of the time it’s just expected that I’m buying food or paying for his fuel when we go to climb outside or something. Like he would even suggest we get takeaway for tea but has no money. Like what. I would never do that. Or if I offer him a drink from the shop he would say yes because it’s a free drink and not because he needs a drink right then, where I would be like nah I’m good if I don’t need one.