I’m getting a lot of communication from people saying they’re no longer going to listen to the pod because I’m on this app. I find it astonishing that we’ve gotten to a place where politics has so badly boiled people’s brains that using a social media app is seen as an unforgivable transgression
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I hate echo chamber politics but that other place is getting too toxic even for me now to stomach
I hope you mention it on the pod.
Opening up a blue sky account to them is on parr with becoming a Spurs fan 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
They aren’t even remotely relevant to one another.
Adults can compartmentalize and find the humanity in opposing views.
One of the many problems with this approach (“shut up and play ball), is, by eschewing opportunities for dialogue, we forget how to disagree amicably.
Zero need to mix that with football which is a hobby and something most use to switch off from real life.
“Football is not a matter of life and death, it's much more important than that” — Bill Shankly
For eons from the Pythian Games to the Olympics to the Coliseum, sport has been a venue for political spectacle, and athletes have used their platform.
Mastery of a sport (like any other professional) bestows influence, and deciding where and when to use that influence is the VERY definition of politics.
But good riddance, honestly. Basically this meme response to them:
Everything is political, nothing can just be.
Truth is those who moan about politicisation of things they like just want you to shut up, they are all for politicisation
Outrage has become a source of fuel…
Probably get the same response from margarine on toast just by saying you prefer butter on toast.
If someone was going to not listen to the podcast any more because of a social media platform, I can’t imagine they had a particularly firm connection to it in the first place…
Or, if it hadn’t been this then something else would have set them off. 🤷🏻♂️
There isn’t a single position they hold on any issue that they won’t undermine at a moments notice when it suits them. Don’t engage with them.
It’s weird I’m still on twitter, I go where people are.
I can’t say the same for Twitter atm.
Are these paying listeners?
Your pods are highly entertaining, informative & the best value free content around (oxymoron intended)
Keep on doing what you do man, you are loved & appreciated 💪
"I do love the post-match analysis and insight, and all of the guys on that pod are so likeable, but I just can't listen to it without imagining them on Blue Sky". WTF
Eventually they will miss the content…not a lot of alternatives considering @arseblog.com @amylawrence.bsky.social and @gunnerblog.bsky.social are all on here too 😂😂😂😂
Their loss man…they will come to their senses.
It’s scarcely believable how emotionally invested people are in something as academic as which platform you are using.
Just stop listening, if that's your choice. Why the need to email you/DM you? To make you feel bad? To be threatening?
What's the point, exactly?
Block
Report
Repeat
Who knows.
You do you, Elliott- and ignore the rest.
The second one just doesn’t work for football socials: it’s not immediate, it shoves content down your throat, and just seems completely unintuitive… never mind the absolute twunt of an owner.
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Oh No Remainers and Blue X iteers...at the moment life seems to be repeatably twatish!
The normal rationale thinking listener isn’t bothered by any of that nonsense. Some people need to grow up.
In my experience (as a Patron), Elliot goes out of his way to avoid controversial, contemporaneous matters, topics, and comments.
Fair play (as per usual).
P.S. thanks for you guys and the rest of Arsenal Twitter coming here. Threads just wasn’t doing it and screw Twitter
Sad times we live in.
I guess you'll see your numbers, but I hope things get better.
We’ll be fine of course but it’s just so strange that people feel the need to make literally everything a reason for outrage
It's not as if people can't access your contents in other platforms ...
End of the day the platform you choose to engage with your listening or stalkers 👀 is up to you.
Who cares about X and all the adverts, spam and all negative shit?
also figured i’d have a chance to get some more interaction with arsenal people while this community is smaller.
unfortunate people’s brains have been broken by social media algorithms.
Try to ignore it, there are so many people who love what you and the guys do.
Seriously though, Twitter is unusable now, the bots, porn ads and sheer hate is nothing I want to see.
Twitter should hire Ten Hag!
Fact is bluesky is the app for people who just want to grill and chill. Other apps are for people in political cults
Create an option for people to pay more on the Patreon to cover these people that will leave, I’m sure many of us will. Keep up the good work.
of you tied into Twitter. You’re all in a tricky place. Hope it all works out.
Keep up the good work! Love the content the team puts out.
Sorry man.
I don’t have any chickens so I drive around the boondocks until I find some. Nighttime is best as they are a captive audience.
That's essentially what Twitter is now, no?
I guess it’s different for you though if it hurts revenue :(
I also have no idea why people think using this app is just a political thing.
Nothing to do with it for me. Entirely down to how I’m engaged with and the content I’m forced to see.
In case it helps, when it comes to conflict, I use this model…
If the issue is important and relationship is not, I compete (v common for me on twitter). I try to convince them of my PoV.
If the issue and relationship are both important, I seek to collaborate. Takes energy and effort but gets…
Unimportant issue?
If you value the relationship then accommodate. If not, then avoid the conflict altogether.
And if you’re kinda middle of the road, compromise is a good option.
When I follow that, I find conflicts less exhausting.