(01-08-2021, 12:28 PM)Cleatwood Wrote: I think it’s long past due to shut down the political section of the board.

If you can’t talk religion (because it used to be bad conversations) but we can somehow continue with this talk?

I’m certainly not innocent here by any means but I think it’s time to remove it.

Cue up the “if you don’t like it then don’t post”.... But couldn’t that same logic be applied to religion? There isn’t good conversations being had anymore. It’s just all hate. From both sides. Look at what this board has become. Is this what was intended when you brought the board back? People’s political beliefs have turned into their religion.

The conversations here are neither fun nor rewarding.
They are work.
Work yielding thorns and thistles.
But necessary work.
Man is a political animal and we participate in politics (which is really just human relations plus a threat of force) every day whether we like it or not.
Now, we don't have to do that here.
We could all go elsewhere if they shut this down.
But yesterday my Facebook friends list dropped by one. This former friend posted something sympathetic to the insurrectionists and purporting to speak for them while the insurrectionists were still banging on the chamber doors. 
None of my other friends were sympathetic.  Everyone else on the news feed was horrified.
I told him where he could stick his sympathy for insurrection, and instantly he had his friends and his wife (none of whom are my friends) all gang up on me, mostly saying I'd never say that to his face. And I replied that none of them would ever support insurrection to my face. I mean these are all just people I might run into at the grocery store. "Hey bananas are on sale. Yeah my kids are doing good at school this year. Hey, good thing we just installed Trump as dictator for life, huh? Anyhow see you next time!" No, no one has real life conversations like that.

Anyhow that might have been my last facebook connection with people who think like this. And now it's gone.  I'm not going to go to Twitter cuz Twitter is mostly bots. Conversations on Fark move too fast to keep track of. And reddit organizes itself into little silos where, like Facebook you're not likely to meet somebody with a contrary view. 

I don't know where I'd go for this type of discussion if they closed this down.

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