Strava goes political. What are your thoughts? Should I delete the App?

The real question is why you think social justice warrior has a negative connotation

Dairyland wrote:

The real question is why you think social justice warrior has a negative connotation

It should not be, but this past summer it certainly became associated with massive amounts of public violence, arson, and vandalism....I think those things are still negative?

One of my New Year's resolution was to pick up a gps watch and open a Strava account. It was something about being part of a *neutral* social-network platform of similar-interested people that was the draw. To me, it seemed like an early-facebook network, when it was only college kids and the rules were loose and there was no political undertones. Having read this, I see now that that is not the case with Strava.

Unlike my history of wearing Saucony (though no longer), my *potential* Strava account will never be opened because of this letter.

Strava: not going to subscribe, you lost a potential customer.

jonathon wrote:

Legit expected this thread to be about how Strava is bad for training lol.

What's with right-wingers and being angry all the time?

The Right must begin using the tactics of the Left: boycott, protest, resist, start your own platform/business.

The Left has been taking the low road for so long (Russia collusion hoax, calling people racist, a summer of violent riots during a pandemic... etc), the Right needs to start paying it back in kind.

There currently is another thread on letsun with a guy asking why does it seem to him that everything on letsrun is political. My answer was, "Dude everything in society has sadly become political."

Why in the hell does a company need to denounce a riot on the US capitol? I mean isn't it obvious that 99% of the people are against that - even those who had questions about the election.

But for some reason, companies now want to virtue signal.

As a result, it's exhausting to just try to go about your normal day now. Someone can't even go to a sporting event anymore and just enjoy as they are now forced to make some sort of political statement one way or the other when the damn national anthem is played . Your best bet is to head to show up later or head to the bathroom when it's played or you are going to piss someone off.

My neighbor is French. He recently put a BLM sign out in the yard. When he saw me, he smiled proudly and said something now along the lines of, "We are playing American now." I said, "What do you mean?" He said, "In france you would never put a sign in your yard like this or for who you are voting for. Here you are expected to do it."

Here is that thread:

https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=10396701

I don’t see why companies feel the need to make political statements. There is really no reason for it.

That said, the OP reaction is just more cancel culture. Don’t complain about cancel culture if that is exactly what you do when confronted with a view you don’t like.

Dude, if you don't want to read this, just don't read the Strava blog. You can use the app/website for tracking your training 24/7/365 without ever seeing the Strava blog. Until you posted it, I didn't know it existed.

Also, the only reason apps like Strava have blogs ISN'T to communicate with the "community." It's to drive clicks and pick up new users. So the CEO and marketing department are probably convinced that there are more new customers to be found among SJWs than among old dudes with hurt feelings. They're probably right.

From where I stand, it seems to me that we are approaching a society where goods and services will be reserved for Party members, and all others will have to stand in line for crumbs.

Silly me, I thought the USSR lost the Cold War.

Wow these strava founders are morons. Their characterization is so at odds with reality that it beggars belief.

Maybe they felt like they had to go full-Orwell on account of their staff - no doubt hired from all kinds of woke ‘schools’ where they take suburban kids with no perspective and train them to feel guilty about even existing in this extremely diverse, fair and prosperous society (probably best ever by global and historical standards, but won’t be for long).

Anyway, yeah. It is social media trash. Get rid of it and go back to paper logs. Your brain will thank you later.

That political statement is absurd. The people who rioted in the Capital were wrong and should be punished. However, there is absolutely l comparison between that riot and the hundreds of BLM and Antifa riots over the summer in terms of damage to the country or the level of violence. The BLM/Antifa riots caused over $1 billion in property damage, resulted in hundreds of injured police officers, as well as at least 23 murders. Anyone who claims that the BLM/Antifa riots were “peaceful” is living in some sort of alternative reality.

Deleted. I'll wait for the next right-wing social/running platform to come out. Oh wait I'm already here.

Of course there was a difference in the way they were treated. All summer, very few were arrested and if they were prosecutors dropped charges. The January 6, rioters were quickly identified, arrested and there are no signs of charges being dropped.

This thread has made it clear that there's no more reason to visit r/conservative. At least here I can respond, no flair and all.

It's so ironic, or just pathetic, that people out there who complain about "cancel culture" want to cancel Strava now. You all should really realize that you are part of the problem.

Lower the temperature, don't stoke the fire.

The only delete my account posts I have seen are from people too cheap to buy a strava subscription. Strava doesn’t care if those people leave at this point. I’ve never seen more libertarian trolls in my life.

Nice common sense post. Black protesters are met with violence. White domestic terrorists get to roam the halls of the Capitol. It's not a revelation to recognize disparate treatment in America, something that has always existed by gender and race.

But yea, you should go ahead and delete Strava if this has you in a tizzy. No need to announce it, just go.

outsider69 wrote:

I'm a man, I'm 40 wrote:

Strava was the only "social" platform I WAS on. But when you put this garbage out, I'm out.

https://blog.strava.com/we-must-protect-democracy/

I watch several news channels and read several different online media outlets for my political information. I dont need my social fitness platform to feed me their view on politics. Nor do I need my workplace or college or sports channel (ESPN). They just can't help themselves to push this crap on to the people.

Strava is easy to ditch. If you have a pair and disagree politically you should delete too.

Need to figure out how to make a living for a company that doesn't feed the SJW machine...if there are any left.

haha this is such an overreaction. We all need to practice living in a world where people have different opinions and it's okay.

Yes, we do. The problem is that only one voice and opinion (the Left) is being allowed to be heard. Social Media and the Main Stream Media have been silencing opinions of the Right, an the past year have gotten more and more aggressive about it. Companies that post this SJW crap do nothing but alienate half of their customers and create an even bigger divide.

NERunner53 wrote:

Nice common sense post. Black protesters are met with violence. White domestic terrorists get to roam the halls of the Capitol. It's not a revelation to recognize disparate treatment in America, something that has always existed by gender and race.

But yea, you should go ahead and delete Strava if this has you in a tizzy. No need to announce it, just go.

This is demonstrably false. Police in Minneapolis abandoned a police station and allowed BLM rioters to burn it down. Police in Portland were instructed to let the riots continue... same story in other cities. There was no FBI to quickly identify and arrest those rioters. And when a few were arrested, they were promptly bailed out of jail by Democrat politicians and Hollywood stars.

Yes, we do. The problem is that only one voice and opinion (the Left) is being allowed to be heard. Social Media and the Main Stream Media have been silencing opinions of the Right, an the past year have gotten more and more aggressive about it. Companies that post this SJW crap do nothing but alienate half of their customers and create an even bigger divide.

It's not hard to figure out why though is it? To create a successful tech firm you have to be quite smart, which is going to influence your political stance.

I'm sure some Parler-esque alternative to Strava will be along never, until then please shut the door on your way out.