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I just wanted to chime in that I personally think your thoughts written here were so well spoken, worthy of consideration and discussion and sympathetic to many opinions in the way I think your intentions are such and that which the Motte rules encourages that they resurrected my lurking ghost to my corpse to tell you someone out there sees what you say here and appreciates your effort in this post. I think if more posts used language like yours here, the brain drain happening on this site currently will be dialed back a bit.
I've also skimmed and read your responses to what you've said from other users and I want to additionally commend you for what I think is a genuine effort to remain calm and give everyone fair questions and chances to explain themselves. Keep it up!
Now, um. Remember remember the 5th of November. My soul now leaves this husk.
Yeah thank you very much. Many of the users here are pretty passive aggressive or (actively rude if you've lurked here for a long while like I have), which makes sense given that the driving emotions literally seems to be "I feel wronged so it's ok to wrong others" but the same way I argue for principled stances, I also don't really want to stoop to that either.
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I, for one, will be devastated that you will be ridding everyone here of your Main Character Syndrome. Please don't go...
To your point, there is some clear frustration that we all share. Some people here are more hysterical about it than others, and I appreciate @magicalkittycat for starting shit (in a thought provoking way) here and challenging people to explain their positions. That being said, if you need a reminder of brain drain on a massive level, hop on over to reddit where as a collective they consistently call millions of people Nazis and ban a not-so-small percentage of them for the capital crime of having a dissenting opinion. The mods here don't do that.
According to mainstream reddit (which is the largest internet forum on the planet), I have been a Nazi from 2020 forward for stating the facts of the Kyle Rittenhouse case, not wanting certain sexual content in schools, disagreeing with certain aspects and goals of BLM, calling out the leftist creep in our institutions, etcetera, etcetera. So, take what you see here, flip the politics, lower the IQ by about 10 points, then multiply it by a couple hundred thousand users, and what you end up with is a gigantic brain drain, plus an ideological purge that's been allowed and encouraged for the better part of a decade.
10?
Well, I'm here, so it pulls down the weighted average.
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"Everyone who disagrees with me is an idiot" and yet another flounce — in a single comment? Well, that's certainly efficient on your part.
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