I Went to the Woods
Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2025 5:50 am
Even though I know the comment section will turn a positive, unifying celebratory or otherwise docile post into an argument, I still scanned and didn’t have to go far.
In this case it was a post by a celebrity in the outdoor field, which equates to someone that is likely unknown to the general public, but would get a star on a sidewalk in Bozeman.
He was celebrating the defeat of the public lands sell off, which was scary, and took an enormous response from a bipartisan audience to get removed from an enormous, and still scary bill.
The commenter detonated one of the most common c level contact list discourse killers that starts with “that’s what you get when … ”. This person took a solid win that galvanized so many different user groups and made it divisive. This is common; someone always takes it upon themselves to filter a post, headline, story or ideas through their political view and come up with a divisive hot take.
He missed the point.
Instagram and Facebook were awash in criticism, if not rage, over the prospect of selling public lands to help with the federal deficit and ease the country’s housing issues.
It was clear the sell off would not open up affordable housing for the working class or make any meaningful impact on the deficit. It was a thinly veiled attempt to provide more land to the elite class or corporations that value their bottom line above all else.
In this case it was a post by a celebrity in the outdoor field, which equates to someone that is likely unknown to the general public, but would get a star on a sidewalk in Bozeman.
He was celebrating the defeat of the public lands sell off, which was scary, and took an enormous response from a bipartisan audience to get removed from an enormous, and still scary bill.
The commenter detonated one of the most common c level contact list discourse killers that starts with “that’s what you get when … ”. This person took a solid win that galvanized so many different user groups and made it divisive. This is common; someone always takes it upon themselves to filter a post, headline, story or ideas through their political view and come up with a divisive hot take.
He missed the point.
Instagram and Facebook were awash in criticism, if not rage, over the prospect of selling public lands to help with the federal deficit and ease the country’s housing issues.
It was clear the sell off would not open up affordable housing for the working class or make any meaningful impact on the deficit. It was a thinly veiled attempt to provide more land to the elite class or corporations that value their bottom line above all else.