Today I woke up to good news, the election has finally been called.
As most of you are well aware these last four years have been particularly hard for us, and with these election results we have a glimmer of hope for things to finally start improving.
I guess it will be another four to five weeks for things to settle down until we can say that this election is truly over, but let's celebrate peacefully while we wait for the system to let it all play out. We deserve to be happy right now so very much.
No matter where you are coming from, I think what we all really could use right now is a time of calm, and a time of peace and healing.
Part of the cure means that we have to keep sticking together.
I know, I'm starting to sound like a broken record, but if I have learned anything in these last four years, then it is that we must continue to find things that we have in common, and stop defining ourselves by whatever we disagree on, and what brings us apart.
Achieving unity is one of humanities greatest tasks, not only the task of the U.S. government or the Americans. We have to work together.
Polarization isn't something new, it's a dynamic that has been growing over the last ten to fifteen years all over the world, not only in the USA.
I hope that this polarization, the lack of empathy, and this awful disregard for truth has reached its climax during the Trump era, and that we are now moving past it.
You would think that a populist, nationalist dynamic would bring people together at least in their own country, but believe me when I'm telling you that this is not so, and never has been so in the history of man. It only brings us apart because the core ingredient of such a way of thinking is the lack of care for others than yourself.
I believe what happened with the OpenCollar group was a mirror to these dynamics. It was the same, and it was truly unbearable to watch my community becoming divided when we really all have so much in common.
People stopped seeing that we all shared the same interests at heart, many nice members of our community have been mislead through the polemic and disinformation coming from people involved with the OpenCollar group. People I have never spoken to attacked me every week, slander and hate against me and my team became the normality, and for a long time I didn't understand where all this was coming from or why it happened.
It really took me a while to realize that it was that same polarization, that same disregard for truth, the same "evil" that was bringing people apart everywhere.
I'm sure that our community was not the only one getting hurt by it.
Over 70 million Americans voted for Donald Trump in 2020.
I'm sure that many of you are members in Fire Flower, or that you simply use my collars because you like them.
I am telling you, that I won't judge you by who you voted for.
Maybe we have a different political opinion, but we have other things in common, big things, and from there we shall build up.
Here is to unity, to healing and to new beginnings.
As most of you are well aware these last four years have been particularly hard for us, and with these election results we have a glimmer of hope for things to finally start improving.
I guess it will be another four to five weeks for things to settle down until we can say that this election is truly over, but let's celebrate peacefully while we wait for the system to let it all play out. We deserve to be happy right now so very much.
No matter where you are coming from, I think what we all really could use right now is a time of calm, and a time of peace and healing.
Part of the cure means that we have to keep sticking together.
I know, I'm starting to sound like a broken record, but if I have learned anything in these last four years, then it is that we must continue to find things that we have in common, and stop defining ourselves by whatever we disagree on, and what brings us apart.
Achieving unity is one of humanities greatest tasks, not only the task of the U.S. government or the Americans. We have to work together.
Polarization isn't something new, it's a dynamic that has been growing over the last ten to fifteen years all over the world, not only in the USA.
I hope that this polarization, the lack of empathy, and this awful disregard for truth has reached its climax during the Trump era, and that we are now moving past it.
You would think that a populist, nationalist dynamic would bring people together at least in their own country, but believe me when I'm telling you that this is not so, and never has been so in the history of man. It only brings us apart because the core ingredient of such a way of thinking is the lack of care for others than yourself.
I believe what happened with the OpenCollar group was a mirror to these dynamics. It was the same, and it was truly unbearable to watch my community becoming divided when we really all have so much in common.
People stopped seeing that we all shared the same interests at heart, many nice members of our community have been mislead through the polemic and disinformation coming from people involved with the OpenCollar group. People I have never spoken to attacked me every week, slander and hate against me and my team became the normality, and for a long time I didn't understand where all this was coming from or why it happened.
It really took me a while to realize that it was that same polarization, that same disregard for truth, the same "evil" that was bringing people apart everywhere.
I'm sure that our community was not the only one getting hurt by it.
Over 70 million Americans voted for Donald Trump in 2020.
I'm sure that many of you are members in Fire Flower, or that you simply use my collars because you like them.
I am telling you, that I won't judge you by who you voted for.
Maybe we have a different political opinion, but we have other things in common, big things, and from there we shall build up.
Here is to unity, to healing and to new beginnings.