re: I figured out why reddit's r/politics is such a liberal echo chamber cesspool

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OT: who was it who was banned from democratic underground for not being liberal enough? Rex?

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Now, that's funny.. I go read their board for laughs sometimes.

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OT: who was it who was banned from democratic underground for not being liberal enough? Rex?

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Yeah it was dog breath, BTW did he choke on a dogbone?

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but that's doesn't make it a place that welcomes open and honest debate.

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i always make threads to welcome honest debate from those who don't agree with me, and the ones that would be "right wing" in your mind are almost always ignored. i even interject my threads in NEW threads when opponents are arguing the points of my thread...still ignored

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I'm one of the few who choose to fight the good fight

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Good for you. Hard to tell, but I mean that in a non-sarcastic way.

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Now how about you figure out why td.com's poli board is such a conservative echo chamber cesspool?

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Cause it's an SEC football site that happens to have political talk forum.

I would guess the Reed College Alumni forum would tend to the left in a similar way.

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even when that does happen those threads are pretty quickly overrun by the far right wing mass that populates this board, who gang up on anyone even a single step to to the left of of Paul Ryan with the quickness and make it impossible to have a real discussion

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hell most of those threads don't make it to page 2 without me pumping life into them. a meme has developed with lots of responses and/or ones alluding to the fact that opponents will avoid the thread

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reddit = massive groupthink across all spectrums

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r/circlejerk

r/anarcho_capitalism is of course excluded from this stereotype.

There is a lot of hivemind there, but they are usually willing to engage in honest debate with folks of all stripes with earnest questions/viewpoints.

I find this board to actually be a pretty good one despite the lack of diversity of thought. If you are hypocritical in your opinions, you will be challenged. If you are illogical, incorrect, unfounded, bigoted, generalizing, trolling, insane, or otherwise posting a lack of substance, you will he challenged and ridiculed. The liberal posters often accuse the conservative posters of being stubborn, arrogant, and stupid, but i find that when the liberal minded posters put their assumptions aside and enter threads with the desire to enter into spirited, respectful, and informative debates, i'm often impressed at the breadth of conversation and civility of those debates. Even when we give each other a hard time, when we actually treat each other with repect as intelligent individuals who disagree rather than some evil or moronic enemy that must be defeated, we learn so much more about ourselves, our positions, each other, and the world around us. There's no reason we can't be civil...


















































figs

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although I increasingly reject directional metaphors

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I completely agree. We did have a thread give us, for a few pages, a good discussion about Chomsky's anarchism which turned a few preconceptions on it's head, but it's still the most effective way to communicate the general cultural and political divide our country still experiences.