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[–]Themagicalmidget 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Because my aim is to change public discourse and to do so we need to end the balkanization of the internet. There are reasons there are more people drifting to the extreme left and right. One primary reason is that all internet discussion has turned more and more into an echo chamber. We can't solve anything if we don't even have slightly shared realities. If massive groups of people can congregate again and have productive diolog perhaps we can mitigate some of the recent events we have seen as of late. I'm not saying it will solve overything, but we have to start somewhere.

[–]pyropulse 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I hope you agree with 'bobbobbybob' that growth here should be organic and not forced.

[–]Themagicalmidget 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not forced, but strongly encouraged via telling friends and spreading word. We have to have some level of size to allow a base level of defense from larger and more hostile parties. If not all it takes is one bad New York times article and this place's payment processing ability and web hosting is cut off completely. I wish that were not the reality, but other sites can easily play dirty.

[–]bobbobbybob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Your aim is to take over other spaces and twist them to suit your desires, instead of creating your own?

Of course.

[–]Themagicalmidget 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

How am I trying to take over a space? All I'm trying to do is increase diialog in the public at large. I'm not trying to shove some ideology down people's throats, other then increasing diolog. I have no ulterior motive to turn this site either further left or right, just to facilitate discussion between the left and right, as to aid social stability.