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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Except that it’s often perfectly normal, middle-of-the-road opinions that get dogpiled here. If you don’t recognize how out of step many of the commonly-held attitudes expressed here are, you should get out and talk to more people IRL. Or for a more empirical context, look at opinion polls and election results.
Any community where someone like Slava is cast as a conservative with whacky views is comically out of touch with mainstream opinions. He’s about as milquetoast, middle of the road Calgarian as you get.
The real problem isn’t the disagreement. It’s the fact certain highly active posters have proven they cannot disagree without making things personal. Back when these forums were moderated, they were suspended again and again. But now they run rampant, spitting snark and taking personal shots, because members who agree with them politically are happy to give virtual high-fives to antagonistic d-bags so long as they’re being antagonistic d-bags for the right team.
It’s tribalism all the way down. How often do you see someone in these threads thank a well-supported post by someone who holds different political views, or call out a low-effort, antagonistic ####-post by someone who’s on the same team?
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People engaging in long-form discussion about a niche topic are out of step with the Average Joe? Is...that your point? There's a lot we could unpack there (including a George Carlin classic), but it seems a particularly odd point to make in the midst of this particular discussion.
So what the Average Joes (or Jamals or Jafirs or Jins-Yang if I may be so bold to include an actual representative sample of the population) think should be held in higher esteem than us latté sippers nerding out on a topic? Okay...but in this case that means ignoring what a lot of Average Joes and Jamals and Jafirs and Jins-Yang think on election days. Because there is an infallible line in the sand and it is borderline treasonous to question it (except for all the previous times that line was gross, of course)