How much do you hide your powerlevel in real life?

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Not a fucking ounce. Anyone that knows me knows how I am.

I hate white liberal women, Joos, illegals, criminal blacks, and especially tranny's.

Oh, I fucking hate the Chiefs. Was trolling and clowning all day in the office after their loss.

I tone it down slightly for work, but talk freely amongst my crew there.

Most people know not to fuck with me. I am not one to play with. Being cute helps avoid trouble too.
 
I don't openly share my thoughts on trannies, leftists, etc. but if those types of topics come up in discussion I don't pretend to be supportive of them. Overall my views are extremely varied so I don't claim any political party. I unfortunately have a lot of people in my life who have severe TDS, my father being one of them. I honestly just find politics to be so fucking boring and stupid that that is my main reason to not talk about my views, and people are not willing to listen or accept differing opinions so why bother? There's more interesting things to talk and think about.

My mother and stepfather I can talk about this stuff with, but it's never super serious discussion or anything, and only really comes up if we're watching something on TV and we mostly just clown on how stupid everyone is.

Kiwi Farms is my little safe space. I think I've only shared it with one other person, but I didn't tell them my username.
 
When I found out about Kiwi Farms, I thought I had found paradise. The internet was worth using again. I could hate on men, call a tranny a tranny, a nigger a nigger, a kike a kike, and so on and so forth.

When these topics come up I don’t pretend to be supportive but I don’t share my true and honest beliefs. I have a lot of friends who believe in the tranny shit and other gendercult things. I like to word my radical views in ways that they can digest and use buzzwords and they usually end up agreeing with me. The only people who actually know what I think about these topics are my parents, who also share same/similar views. My dad is very active in the culture war nonsense, and it makes for good conversation. He is way less progressive than I thought he was growing up.

Similar to @Carnavoyeur , I have only shared KF with one other person and even then I never gave them my username. I love Kiwi Farms. :)
 
Arbiter said:
How do you guys deal with having to use pronouns at work? I've had to introduce myself and my pronouns before and it makes me die inside every time.
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Havent had to use the pronouns too often, mainly just sir or ma'am. Occasionally get called the wrong gender, but the only time it pissed me off was when I corrected the guest and said guest said "well ladies can have facial hair too". Cause apparently I can't be a fat white boy with facial hair, no, I must be a "true and honest" woman.
 
Arbiter said:
How do you guys deal with having to use pronouns at work? I've had to introduce myself and my pronouns before and it makes me die inside every time.
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"I do not feel comfortable discussing my gender identity in the workplace."
 
Arbiter said:
How do you guys deal with having to use pronouns at work? I've had to introduce myself and my pronouns before and it makes me die inside every time.
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We have the option to put our pronouns in our email signatures, which I simply didn’t fill out. And that was that.

If it comes up elsewhere, the same with things like feeling pressure to call my husband partner instead, I just calmly state I have no prob calling anyone else what they prefer and I insist on the same respect.

Funnily enough, if anyone acts weird about it, it’s straight white women. Gays I’ve encountered think it’s annoying and performative.
 
Spergerella Junior said:
Funnily enough, if anyone acts weird about it, it’s straight white women.
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Is it that strange? There's a lot of like... hive behavior among that group. The HR lady/churchmarm stereotype exists for a reason, and now they've just become pronoun-police.
 
I'm pretty much in the closet about most of this stuff. My social group is pretty much entirely lefty redditor types, and admittedly I was too until a few years ago. My husband and I discuss our grievances with leftwing politics and he's aware I'm pretty jaded about a lot of things. I love my friends dearly and want the best for them, even the ones whose life decisions I find ridiculous, so I just try to blow off steam where I can and be kind to the folks I know IRL.
 
I would say I hide my powerlevel most of the time. It's just pointless. People don't understand any fuckin nuance. So for example I'm pro gay/bi part of the LGBT (only adults ofc) but trannies all should be sent to a damn shrink. So right-wingers think I'm woke and left-wingers think I'm some kind of a fascist or terf. And I'm simply a centrist. I'm in the middle really. And of course it usually ends up with an argument so I tend to back out. Nowadays people can't disagree without hating on another.
Also any non political info is also dangerous to share. When I say I have a mild disease X people wanna know everything. And they give me a shitton of useless advice and get mad when I ignore such advice. And people gossip. I don't like being gossiped about.
 
I gotta hide my powerlevel 24/7 and truth be told it's gotten exhausting. I live in a heavily left leaning state too so it doesn't help matters. I always try and let potentially agreeable people know that I won't be hurt by their words though. That's the thing - words are words, action is what matters.
 
Along with a bunch of others here, I live in a heavy left-leaning area and hide my power level around everyone except my husband. It is exhausting and my left leaning black neighbor now uses me to vent about being black and having mixed children. Normally we get along fine but lately I am tired of the victim mentality she is instilling into her son. (Kid on the street got upset with him and she told him every time this happens it’s because he’s black).
 
My powerlevel is well-hidden. Even IRL I am distantly polite with acquaintances and try to maintain an air of mystery around people who don’t need to know anything personal about me. I’m fine with being insincere about what I really think in settings where the stakes are high but the relationships are fairly meaningless, like at work.

I have a list of unpopular opinions for sure, things that would piss off both leftists and conservatives, but I am not a fractious debate bro nor do I have any need to seek validation from the herd. I maintain my privacy (and sanity) by staying entirely off social media. If I need to vent, I do it only with total anonymity and good opsec in place. The best way to not get cancelled or harassed is to simply not leave a paper trail, nor have any avenues open where you’re expected to performatively virtue signal about the current thing *or else*. I prefer to use my vote or my dollar to protest than get into a pointless slap fight with a stupid ideologue who is not interested in an honest discussion. I don’t owe any cause my loyalty or submission.

Thankfully Mr. Liber Nihil is safe to express politically incorrect views to without being some flavor of unhinged extremist himself (a rare virtue), and I don’t need to worry a disproportionate amount about offending either side of our normie conservative families. My genuine friendships are with people whose lives and identities don’t revolve around terminally online politics.
 
I can count on one hand how many people online and on other websites know that I use the Farms.
My family wouldn’t cut me off or anything over it. They just wouldn’t understand the internet culture.

I’ve mentioned Gorl World to my mom and sister since it’s more of a normie thing, but they weren’t even interested in that.
Twitter is where I am the most political, and no one offline knows of my account on there. My politics there reflect my politics here.

One of the reasons why I went to an Alice Cooper concert is because of his stance on transitioning children/men in women’s bathrooms, and I’ve even been discreet in posting that I attended it.
Though to be fair, no one else at that concert cared about it.

And the people who I have mentioned that I use the website to, are all men.
 
Arbiter said:
How do you guys deal with having to use pronouns at work? I've had to introduce myself and my pronouns before and it makes me die inside every time.
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I’ve thankfully never had to introduce myself verbally with pronouns. The thought makes me cringe, too. Think of it like this: if it’s mandatory, then everyone has to suffer through it and they’re not judging you. The only people who *should* be embarrassed are the delusional men and the they/them attention whores with bad haircuts.

Other than that, it’s fairly easy to passively avoid. Just don’t put pronouns in your email signature, etc. Some actual woke arguments against this is that seeing pronouns can lead to unconscious sexism (a very real problem for female employees), or can make the “genderfluid” feel pressured to pick a label (which will become everyone’s problem if the office narcissist feels slighted).
 
I work in a conservative environment and we’re all far too busy to talk about politics, but we’re all pretty open about our faith. We don’t go into details at work, we’re all mature adults, thankfully. For that same reason, I do not mention the farms. I think it would bore people more than anything. I don’t have a spouse or kids, but everyone else does and I get the feeling if I had two or three kids under the age of 5, I wouldn’t be here, either.

I trust that my colleagues feel similarly to me on most political issues, and that they would about trans if they knew the truth about AGP. My problem is that I don’t want to have to explain AGP to my collegues. I think they’re smart enough to know trans isn’t real because God isn’t putting male souls in female bodies, but they don’t know what trans really is. They only know what it’s not. People are waking up, especially with furry shit hitting the news, but I have zero desire to discuss paraphilias with my coworkers, so I’ve never openly discussed trans issues. I figure it’s fine enough if they oppose it on religious grounds, I don’t need to be the one to tell them all the other reasons why they should hate this shit.

I do occasionally find myself having to say “uhhhh don’t ask” when people ask me how I know so much about an obscure topic. I follow Anna O’Brien’s thread so I have become quite knowledgeable on lipedema as a result (all of us in the thread have, I’m sure), and I started going on about some specific liedema doctor in Germany and a space egg in Arizona and people are like “Why do you know all this?” And I have no answers.
 
A true leftist will sniff you out anyway.

Normal clothing
Normal hair
Normal language
Normal relationship
Physically fit

All signs that you might bea Nazi.
 
Carnavoyeur said:
I honestly just find politics to be so fucking boring and stupid
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This. Politispergs give me a headache. I don't want to talk politics with anyone.

I tend to hide my interests or just downplay them. Video games (mostly retro), horror and sci fi. You can attract creeps. Plus I've come to find that for the most part, the only movies I want to watch are either weird or stupid. I DGAF how many tomatoes a movie has or however that works. If it looks good to me I click. I spend time compiling lists of weird films I want to watch and I don't think many people would find that fun anyway. It's better I just pretend I can sorta tolerate Titanic again. I fucking hate Titanic.

I am not a people person. I'd probably be a hermit if I could. I'm extremely introverted. But I can fake being human very well and you'd never know. I'm very good at keeping the mask on so I fit in as best as possible. I hate it though.
 
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