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With the whole SPLC thing, I was wondering if we can go back to having (mostly) apolitical communities to discuss about hobbies....then I realized that we are still living in crazy, uncertain times regardless, and sunk-cost fallacy is a thing so probably not for a while.
@xianc78 The hard reality IMO, is that it's very hard to deprogram people who spent a decade or so online balls deep in internet bullshit, especially if they will drift from one allegiance to another as a defensive tactic.
Case in point: the reason everyone laughs at the idea of "trolls remorse" is that the same guy who mopes about how some website he used to post at is a "hate site" will use his tactics for the other side even as most of the people from said site of that era grew up and settled down.
Case in point: the reason everyone laughs at the idea of "trolls remorse" is that the same guy who mopes about how some website he used to post at is a "hate site" will use his tactics for the other side even as most of the people from said site of that era grew up and settled down.
@Zergling_man I don't even know what this is. Is it some sort of MUD?
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One day
Not today though
Also reminder that older online communities handled politics much better. The few non-political forums that allowed political discussion generally had some special subforum to have heated debates. Everyone was expected to come in with an open mind and discussed the craziest of ideas possible, from fringe ideologies to the craziest of conspiracy theories. You had everyone across the political compass participate, and those who couldn't handle it didn't have to participate, and generally those subforums were limited to VIP members (or those who have been members of the forum for awhile) so you didn't have users who only join to participate in those subforums.