I'm brand new here myself, I haven't seen people getting shouted down so far. I still frequent reddit because there's just more content, but yeah, the censorship and far left culture is becoming unbearable.

And don't take my useful idiot remark to be an insult, it's a term that was used by the Soviets to describe communist sympathizers in the west who were acting against their own interests. In the context that I was using it I was saying that inflammatory language by us is what the far left wants, and when we use it we're essentially working for them.