Would going into off topic tangents every few weeks where you complain about tribalism, d-bags, and how the mods don’t do anything count as making things personal in well-supported posts or making things personal in low effort posts?
The real problem, as it has always been, is that there is a small, vocal minority of posters who like to engage in topics in low effort ways, but when faced with actually having to thinking about their positions or face any sort of pushback, instead of doing what most people in the real world do and just… you know… think or consider their own opinion, they rant about tribalism, echo chambers, broad whining about “leftism” or “progressives.” We’re dealing with middle aged men that have been on the internet for 20+ years and still have no functional ability to have a conversation where their views are questioned. It’s little surprise that some of this very small group have not changed their position on a single topic in a decade, despite however many conversations about it.
The complete divorce from reality required to be one of these few people, which are literally the same people every time, is astounding.
So, maybe y’all could just get over it and be grown ups? That’s how we do things in “the real world,” I can’t think of a single person I’ve ever had a disagreement with offline, no matter how passionate, that ever resorted to over the top complains about echo chambers and tribalism. Of course, they aren’t debate perverts raised on internet forums who can’t seem to figure out how real life works, but hey.
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