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Culture War Roundup for the week of December 29, 2025

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The Republican base runs on "vibes" and hatred of the other to give a sense of unity and "doing something."

Please,

Proactively provide evidence in proportion to how partisan and inflammatory your claim might be.

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Our goal is to optimize for light, not heat.

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Post about specific groups, not general groups, wherever possible.

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Be no more antagonistic than is absolutely necessary for your argument.

Remember that this is a discussion site, not (yet another) place on the Internet for performative outrage/consensus building denigration/low effort signalling.

Proactively provide evidence in proportion to how partisan and inflammatory your claim might be.

How would I provide evidence? It's a personal belief based on a lifetime of experience and thought about the subject, from my own perspective. Is there supposed to be some peer reviewed paper on "Republicans are all doody heads"? There isn't one and never will be, regardless of any truth or falsity. Cut it out with these isolated demands for rigour that you know can't be met.

Post about specific groups, not general groups, wherever possible.

Uh huh. And I'm sure you would moderate and demand SOURCE?! for statements about how "Cultural Marxists" have infiltrated institutions and are destroying western civilization. That's sarcasmistic, I know you haven't. Or Liberals/leftists believe X. Or, to hit on the subject I replied to you elsewhere with, "Hamas are blood thirst terrorists."

You're full of disingenuousness and nonsense. Of course posting about general groups is tolerated and even celebrated. Just outgroups, not things you identify with and get pissed off are being criticized. E.g. if you were an Islamist mod things might be flipped but the behavior would be the same. Everyone that criticizes Hamas gets modded. Everyone that says "American Republicans are all warmongers and puppets of Israel" flies by because everyone that thinks differently gets banned and "we all know" that's obviously true.

There's nothing I can say to you. I repeat myself, it's my personal beliefs, endorsed by no one, meaning nothing. There's no way to say them other than the way I did. Honestly, if you people hate it so much, just don't engage or block me.

consensus building

This is a particularly hilarious accusation to bring up. Are you saying I, the constantly mod warned and downvoted, is the one interested in consensus building here? Seriously? By preaching against the choir? Who am I building a consensus with? No, if anyone is doing that it's.....

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