I'm not around here much anymore.
I used to think we'd get our shit together and save the world, but ten years on, that hasn't really happened. Lots of petitions, lots of catalogues of RW idiocy (well catalogued elsewhere), but nothing all that dynamic (even anti-dynamic in some cases --like boycotting NN).
When I come by now it seems like more of a social club made up of smaller (often hostile) social clubs. Endless drivel about whose feelings were hurt by whom.
It's just really, really, silly.
Can't we argue about politics instead ("two swords slashing at each other / only sharpen one another" --kind of a good thing for an ideological group that wants to develop more convincing ways of communicating its values to the world at large).
Does this all have to be about You (whatever comprises that singular or plural)? As long as it is, we ain't going nowhere. Politics is about all of us, not any single one of us.
I dunno, maybe I'm weird, but I have actual flesh and blood friends with whom I breathe the same air and I don't really care as much about anybody with a username as I do about them. I don't care that much whether usernames think I'm awesome or call me a dick. I just want to live (with all other earthlings, regardless of their various belief systems) in a better country and a better world.
I used to think that (making a better country for a better world) was what we came here for. Hard to see that in what's been going on here these recent weeks.
I think this place needs a team of proctologists.
I'm sure somebody's feelings will be hurt by this. Not my point or intention. Please get over yourselves. There's a real world out there in physical (i.e., non cyber) space. It's kind of a mess and it needs your help whether your feelings have been hurt or not.