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POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD
IkeTheGeneric:
--- Quote from: Cappytaino on February 07, 2018, 11:58:06 AM ---this thread is too cancerous for any sort of meaningful discussion.
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It's not the thread, it's the people. Things would be bearable without the constant feeling of needing to stick it to the other side and get your own beliefs validated.
If there were some simple way to call out partisan hackery without giving the individuals a leg to stand on, things would be a lot better around here.
Cappytaino:
--- Quote from: IkeTheGeneric on February 07, 2018, 12:07:03 PM ---It's not the thread, it's the people. Things would be bearable without the constant feeling of needing to stick it to the other side and get your own beliefs validated.
If there were some simple way to call out partisan hackery without giving the individuals a leg to stand on, things would be a lot better around here.
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It just feels like the thread is a pretty even mix of 13 year old kids with no sort of life experience, HS/college students with an entirely unearned sense of moral/intellectual superiority, and just pure and unadulterated circlejerking/trolling/baiting from certain users.
What bothers me more than all of the above is how some people will post information that is either blatantly false or entirely unverifiable/unfalsifiable. It just feeds into the circlejerking because everyone feels they have to "stick it to the other side" as you said and the thread just becomes a sewage pit very quickly.
IkeTheGeneric:
To bluntly put it, I believe this was mostly just a self-fulfilling prophecy of certain users with stuffty personalities being given somewhat of a soapbox with political threads. That's why you don't see some people outside of this topic because they just really don't have anything else to talk about beyond politics.
Kinda why I support a politics & news subform so those certain users can stick to their own place, kinda like /pol/ was made. It gets tiring when people inject politics into unnecessary topics.
Deus Ex:
Namedrop you pussiiii
Frankie²:
--- Quote from: Deus Ex on February 07, 2018, 10:23:01 PM ---Namedrop you pussiiii
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who are you talking to?