What Kind of Messages/Comments Does One Get When Publicly Sharing Subjective Opinions Online During a Canadian Election Cycle, Eh
The included pic of recent DMs, comments, and email interactions I’ve had as 95EH this week, which I originally shared to the 95EH Facebook and Instagram, are not “outliers” to highlight (nor are they the only messages / comments received).
These recent examples just show the wide spectrum of “feelings” that people have chosen to outwardly express to me in the last few days while seemingly checking out the same content that I publicly shared on the 95EH socials this election cycle (ie. I could put together quite the wide-ranging slideshow of all the different interactions that I have had online this election cycle, as it’s been quite the mixed bag of mixed signals generated from different people being exposed to the same subjective opinions & related context from some local guy with a tendency to "blahg" about it) — with my most recent post being about the 2025 Canadian Election results and my subjective opinions, which I shared on the FB and Insta the morning after the election.
Perhaps that’s why somebody commented on one of my previous ‘election posts’ that I shared to the Kimberley Corkboard FB Group with this:
“Takes some courage in this political climate to let people know your preference — especially when there’s people out there who mistake caring for people with communism.”
While somewhere else, in the same comments section, a different person typed out & pressed ‘send’ on this nugget:
“Never ever vote for a socialist they are Mao fascist”
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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One thing one learns in the early days of running a blahg — whether it’s a “music blog” or a “community blog” or etc — it's that you have to get over worrying about other people’s opinions (because other people’s opinions, mean or kind, live in other people’s heads, AND… oh look, their mind has already moved on to the next thought, opinion, distraction, craving, or etc — as we all know our minds are wont to do).
So as long as YOU feel like you’ve said things that you can stand/speak on (whether it’s about politics or art or whatever), if approached with sincerity, at the very best/worst, all the other person has is an opinion that is different than yours (often because they are looking at things from a different perspective, often with a pinch of nuance baked in) — which is truly not that big of a deal because that actually happens quite a lot when talking to ANYONE about ANYTHING.
And you may not be able to prevent other people from turning into a reactionary pile of self-defensive goo whenever they hear something that doesn't immediately confirm their current "biases" — BUT — we all definitely have a lot more individual control over whether or not we also get pulled into becoming a reactionary pile of self-defensive goo right along with them (even if we feel our "goo" is more justified because reasons).
So I’ll just add that the “f*cking brainwashed” convo has moved to a less hostile place and the “eat sh*t *sshole” convo feels tempered… thus proving (momentarily) that there is often always space for ‘alls well that ends well’ (especially for stuff like online conversations/interactions — as long as at least one ego is willing to let go of the obsession of needing the other ego to agree that they are/were "right" about everything) ✌
*️⃣ Also #HotBlogTip - both angry DM’rs were sent links to MOUN.TOWN + MOUNTOWN.SUBSTACK.COM to redirect their enragement at things I actually wrote already (ie. MY words/opinions, the supposed cause for their social engagement in the first place) — so that can sometimes be a good way to finally get someone to go read a blog post or newsletter that they want to say that they are mad about (and a click is a click is a click, eh)👍
So… CHEERS to all (yes, even Y'ALL)!
🗳 🍻 ✌
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Jeremy / HI54LOFI