Gentlemen, greetings.
In my own personal interest to stop over-analyzing and start doing alluded to in the Newb section, I may as well stop my lurking and start contributing to you gentlemen here and now.
A little back ground. I am not one for internet, blogs and forums and such. I found this one, and its helped me immeasurably through the last 6 months as I've been laid up due to a motorcycle injury not to feel so alone in one of the SJW epicenter cities on the west coast. So gratitude. And though not as witty as some of you 'gents, forgive me; I'm 40 and had a very direct hands on type of career in the military, not much computer training; so no witty gifs and such.
But, as my user name apparently alludes to, and as others in this thread suggest techniques you should use to not incite the ire of reactionary antagonists, the HOW to blend into your own hostile environment is paramount. May I first start with some topics unrelated directly to this thread, but that may have some interest to some of you? This contribution has its roots in a PM I sent one of you that commented in this thread to further your own goals, possibly. But then said fuck it, may as well post the content, as it's educational and I have to start somewhere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6ayb02bwp0
I personally know and have lived with some of the people represented in this documentary. That's where I starting my own personal awakening and understanding of not just visceral topics represented in this forum, which admittedly is fun to live and read about here (lived in Las Vegas for over ten years after all) but overall knowledge useful to the aware man and how we got 'here'. The incongruousness of ideals vs. actions of state and citizen alike personally experienced as a .gov entity made me confused as a younger man about why I was being asked to hurt people in far away lands, for god, king and country right?...but to my admitted shame loving the adventure that went along with the specialty; so I didn't question.
So my interest is to give back a little as an older guy, some perspective, to good questioning men, in a small way. The understanding of how we got here, as some younger men may want to understand the back story if you will, if not already exposed. More to come if interested.
Thanks guys for helping a middle age lion not feel so alone.