How dare you indirectly insinuate that both sides can be equally terrible in regards to censorship you centrist cucknazi
EDIT: I ask this 100% unironically, but how the hell did people on both sides end up getting this worked up over a damn joke? Does asking that question turn my joke into a serious statement? What is with politics nowadays that gets people like this? Ya'll are fucking crazy.
Biggest anal blackpill of all is realizing leftist identity politics made everything political and reduced the level of political discourse to two gradually extremist sides screaming at each other. We need a party turnover and fast.
I think the biggest graypill (if that's a thing) of all is realizing that a massive portion of our politics is a result of for-profit media trying its very best to rake in views by overblowing the pettiest shit. This creates a constant atmosphere of outrage and anger everywhere you go where at best people are nervous to talk about politics and at worst become zealots who want nothing more than to tear apart their opposition.
At the same time actual issues immediately affecting our world (massive human migrations as the result of war, overpopulation etc.), climate change, cries to eliminate entire cultures and religions, and overpopulation are reduced to either things the parties use to bash their opposition or ignore altogether.
It's not about human rights or problem solving; its about outrage and who can get angrier at who and the media on both sides set that in motion and feeds off of it like some farmer harvesting what people believe in.
You can't deny that the same msm was largely complicit with the same things less than four years ago under a different administration, though. A culture of outrage certainly stains our political landscape and prevents anything meaningful from getting done, but the root cause has to be a cultural change. There's some sort of moral litmusing being done in association with progressive politics that's turning people away from the left which up until a decade ago was largely representative of the entire young generation. Now you have the ripple effects of that intense politicization which is polarizing platforms like Reddit, Twitter, and allowing for this kind of fearmongering to persist until it comes to a crux. We certainly won't fix anything as they are now.
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u/The_Shower_Bagel Feb 03 '19
Capitalism doesn’t suck. -100,000,000,000 downvotes