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Back in the day the people of today who see themselves in a culture war simply went to the pub to ramble about their common sense-lacking thoughts. They were happy to be with people who agreed with them, the remaining vast majority was happy to have the mental diarrhea mostly confined to a place they wouldn't go to anyway.

The most perplexing thing - actually, it isn't perplexing to have such a major contradiction coming from people who can't think straight to begin with - is that they believe that social media are public squares that don't have to follow the rules of public squares, but are instead a free-for-all that doesn't exist in any democratic country's physical public squares.

The poll in this thread is quite sad with its 53% vs. 43% split, especially because the option for the perceived suppression is winning. But this is the way of the internet: It makes it easy for minorities to believe that they actually belong to the majority.



Legend11 correctly predicted that GTA IV will outsell Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I was wrong.