“This is the reaction to the other side’s reaction. Now we push edgy again, and you guys get called 2018 dinosaurs.”

It was basically a conversation about the culture wars and political correctness on Reddit. I think of things in cycles. The Reddit Human Resources crew thought they’d be in power forever because they’re objectively “right.”

Not the case.

And anybody who thinks that Linus doesn’t look for those ways to break Linux is deluding themselves. He’s a fucking asshole.

Yeah. Trump has said that we’re taking in too many undesirables from other countries, and he’s bad for that.

And by the way? This is Trump’s point of view, and it’s hilarious to see it not called fascism just because it’s a person from another country.

Maybe that I went into a blue collar profession, but that I make such obscene money doing it.

You’re right, and the majority is wrong. Enjoy the next election. Don’t change a thing, you’re perfect how you are.

There you go not listening again, even to the point of saying what people are experiencing isn’t happening.

So let’s say it’s not happening. Why do so many people feel that way?

With all due respect, I live in the Midwest and run with some rather blue-collar people in a completely blue, large city.

Everyone feels as though the Democrats have stopped listening to them and have been yelling at them for the last 10 years.

And just the mere fact that you are probably going to have the knee jerk reaction and call me an ignorant bigot is part of the problem.

The Care Bear Stare got him.

I’d rather miss some content (or rewind if possible) than hear an ad.

Yes, absolutely. We should all be concerned with the source of our ideas and even our memes, as dumb of a concept as that is.

The repercussion to bad speech and ideas is inherent to the current paradigm of the internet: downvotes and ostracization.

Maybe they will wind up on their own forum saying despicable shit, but they were probably going to do that anyway. Bad ideas love a vacuum away from prying eyes and outsiders.

I’m just going to throw in a bit at the end of this thread here, as I find the conversation fascinating.

This is how fascism starts. “We have to control speech for your own good” becomes “hateful speech comes from [insert group]” becomes “we have to stop them.”

We are all being weaponized by the internet. Free speech is important. You don’t fight fascism with more fascism, you fight it with better ideas.

Never made it to the end. Just couldn’t.

Napoleon Dynamite was definitely like this for me. Watching it was fine, and funny even. But quoting it after the fact with my friends? Fucking hilarious.