Hold Fast Against Extremism

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[–]Locke 16 insightful - 5 fun16 insightful - 4 fun17 insightful - 5 fun -  (3 children)

Thanks for the post. Here's your share of the paid shill money beep boop. /s

No, I'm not a bot or getting paid to post here, just a politically moderate human being. We exist!

[–][deleted] 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I just miss when I could do things on the internet without the politics, honestly. But now that I think about it, that time is so far gone it's like I've forgotten how. I don't even know what to do with myself anymore, and I'm not even sure if that's because of my life in general or the direction the internet took. Possibly both.

[–]BigFatRetard 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

There was always politics to some degree. Especially post-9/11.

To me, the thing that changed is we went from being able to argue and disagree and have a beer afterwards to arguing and going after each other's real lives. The moment the psychos stopped letting it be a conversation and turned it into threats to destroy people's lives for disagreeing (or just silence them altogether) was the moment it stopped being fun to argue on the Internet.

[–]Brokinnoggin 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The internet is the modern public forum. Those of us that grew up with it as a mainstay in our lives now use it as such. Some of us are retarded though and we don't have a Praetorian Guard to stop fuck faces from running amok among civil argument.