My biggest crime in this thread that makes people emotional is that I question the mainstream narrative.
People point to Socrates having legitimate reasons for asking questions. You could also point to Charlie Kirk. Regardless who killed Charlie, Socrates and Kirk were both killed for asking questions. People don't want you to ask questions about sensitive issues.
JAQing off is a term from rationalwiki, a bunch of autistic atheists who should have been aligned with wanting to ask questions, but needed a negative term for it so they can dismiss it. I could tell a subset of the dislike was from similar kind of thinking people.
But I'm not blind, the dislike I receive comes from a broader audience than just that. I'm taking some of the advice on board.
I think
@Fanatical Pragmatist gave some of the best feedback and I considered all feedback carefully.
The main criticism of myself is that when I write and think about the subject of Charlie's murder, I can get very emotional. Angry, sad, disgusted. He wasn't perfect, but he was a good and devout man. As result of that emotion, I can sometimes write a good post and think "fuck it, I'll say my suspicions unfiltered, even if I'm unsure about them." This is what I can and will do better (by not doing that).
I levy that criticism of being emotional about it toward most people in this thread. A lot of posts only receive surface level engagement when they should receive scrutiny. There is a general unwillingness to scrutinize and look beyond the surface.
For example, I posted the screengrab of the messages from lance's phone. One of the messages goes over the header instead of under. Maybe it means something, maybe it doesn't, but it's productive to look into these things together. It is strange thing #561 in this case.
I don't think my change in behaviour will change how I'm rated generally. There exists a group who will dislike nearly everything I post in this thread. There is another subset that will dislike everything that calls into question the fbi narrative.
What I have in common with some of these is that it's much more of an emotional response than a rational one.
I'll change my behaviour, but I don't think they will, so I will still get mass dislikes.
Prove me wrong.