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Did the 2016 election not offend your tastes then? Because this has been an ongoing thing for years at this point, but in 2025 you're finding this to be all distasteful? Hate and vitriol has never been banished from this site. I find it in bad faith you'd believe otherwise.
Comment by TheShark12 at 22/02/2025 at 21:50 UTC*
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I reread what OP said to see where you’re getting that stance from and I can’t find it. The recent presidential election I feel was used as an example more than a breaking point. I personally am in the same boat. I’ve been on here since 2013 and there were a couple big shifts for me when rhetoric got more extreme each time, 2016 election, covid lockdown, Elon buying Twitter and the exodus of users especially further left ones, and the recent election.
The quality of political discussion also feels like it has gone downhill more and more every year. There used to be debate in somewhat good faith and now users are quick to call you a bootlicker, nazi, commie, or whatever their buzzword gumbo word of the day is. It’s being treated more and more like Twitter where surface level virtue signaling statements have taken precedence over people actually expanding on their views and why they see something the same way. This is getting ranty but I think OP isn’t doing this in bad faith personally it’s just hard to express yourself super clearly in such a nuanced topic on a site that has changed so much over the decade+ it’s been around for.