POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

[IkeTheGeneric]

this thread is too cancerous for any sort of meaningful discussion.

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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[Cappytaino]

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.

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]

Namedrop you pussiiii

who are you talking to?

[Deus Ex]

Al of uy

[Tayasaurus]

HS/college students with an entirely unearned sense of moral/intellectual superiority, and just pure and unadulterated circlejerking/trolling/baiting from certain users.

90% of Blockland forums

Again the forum itself isn't exactly set up for political debates because its literally a forum about virtual Lego. The expected demographic is children. Letting the adult community mix in with kids produces the kinds of people you'd find in a politics thread such as this.

[Outland Predator]

forget this 'real world stuff' we need to discuss something more important:









Virtual lego politics.

[Conan]

forget this 'real world stuff' we need to discuss something more important:









Virtual lego politics.

take it to drama

[Juncoph]

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.

welcome to e-politics

[Kearn]

https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/963534444899524613

[SeventhSandwich]

https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/963534444899524613

is that an accurate description of what's happening, or just a senator pissed-off about the filibuster?

[Tactical Nuke]

is that an accurate description of what's happening, or just a senator pissed-off about the filibuster?

if it's not accurate then why haven't the dems accepted Annoying Orange's deal yet

[SeventhSandwich]

if it's not accurate then why haven't the dems accepted Annoying Orange's deal yet

Unless something happened to the whole 'border wall or no DACA' provision, then that's still the reason why. Big dumb border wall is a complete non-starter with the Democrats and will continue to be until Annoying Orange caves.

[Tactical Nuke]

if anyone's going to cave first it's going to be dems

they literally shut down the government twice and accomplished nothing, not to mention that they already had previously dropped daca from negotiations