This was the point I was trying to make in my post, but yours was better written than mine. Political engagement is great, having things you care about is great. But waking up Easter Sunday to come here to post articles demonizing the other side with a broad brush speaks to something more. And most articles he (and others from both sides) come here to post are only echo chamber articles, no one here ever challenges their beliefs or posts anything contrary to their world view, or says “maybe I was wrong”, they only seek to prove themselves right. Which makes the entire discourse here pointless. It’s a microcosm of society I guess.
This is the best absolute take on this forum I think I have ever seen! It's sad because this use to be an exchange of ideas and discussion as to why your idea might not work. Now it is you are on the other team, so you are stupid!! It runs both ways!! For fun read a thread and as you read it change all left derogatoriness to the right and all right to left. When you are done you realize all you really have to do is change thread title to the opposite and meat-eating coyotes will come running!! Either to defend their side or tell the other side how wrong they are. I'm not pointing fingers because I am guilty of the same thing. But I realize it and am trying to do better!!
I did reply to the post. (Is that what you are saying?) But I also am not going to ignore the posts of someone who is acting righteous, while sending nasty PM's and hiding behind another (now banned) faux account. Both things can be pointed out. But i clearly called out the post he was upset about.
I've been wading into this muck since probably 2008. I really don't know that it was all that much different back then. I was called something along the lines of an entitled rich brat that had never earned anything for myself within probably a week of posting on Too Hot. It ebbs and flows, but it always gets more frantic and toxic as we approach presidential elections. But you can still find threads with legitimate discussion and discourse; you just have to step outside of the purely political threads.
You may be absolutely right!! You know EVERYTHING used to be better back in the day!!! Maybe it is just my recollection, I just remember being told I was wrong in my thinking or telling someone they wrong not that I was idiot for having different thought then the enlighten. I guess now though, you can believe whatever you want and search the internet for sites that will confirm your thinking. For me that is the hardest thing to get to the real truth and facts. So many sources, and ones we all use from both sides, are so biased. The bias can be as simple as just omitting facts that lead to a distorted view of the actual facts. I guess though, that's why so many can run here to claim how right they are about past events.
Seems to me that the obvious lack of compassion for women who been raped even if they're undocumented immigrants or potential applicants for asylum is a real demonstration of an evil state of mind much more so that the documentation of the atrocities suffered by those women. It also appears that the OP supports forcing those women to give birth when they have been impregnated by their rapists.