From: VincentLauw | #023So who will be the first one to go 'Lol Vincent' at this post or 'XFD are you kidding me l0s0r'
Alright, let me explain to you why we all act so extreme on this board, and it's the same reason you have been coming and will keep coming to this board for years.
You can't find it anywhere else. If you want a calm, "nuanced" debate, go talk to your coworkers or some random guy on the bus. If you want to talk about typical, socially acceptable, mundane topic, go talk to your neighbor or classmates or something.
There are so many places for you to find your precious nuanced debate. But there are few places where you can find people who will debate with you to the most extreme point, with no regard for tact, dignity, friendship, emotions, or any of that other stuff that stifles everyday discussions. While you might say that you can find this sort of discussion anywhere on the internet, only b8 has people who are actually intelligent and can back up their stances with facts and logic (around 50% of the time, at least).
So basically you subconsciously crave the aggressive discussions we have on this board because you like having your viewpoints and beliefs challenges, and being able to defend them
Not really. I haven't had a discussion here for a year or more now. I, and probably many of the people who do the same, just come in these topics for a laugh and make some kind of semi-witty statement about something not relevant to the topic most of the time, simply because if you try to have a decent argument here there will always be people here that go 'yeah lol well you're a bad user' or 'XFD is this guy serious'. And a lot of the time those are users I even like.
I come here for the people I like and I USED to come here for some interesting discussions. Now it's all just slogans and passive aggressive posts in the trend of 'dude I know you're smart SO WHY ARE YOU BEING SO DUMB RIGHT NOW' just because they don't wanna offend part of the community here. Seriously, that happens in every single of these topics and it's pretty baffling. If you even say something like 'not all feminism is bad' or 'there are a few social issues that I think liberals are right on' or the more recent 'I don't believe in God' someone will reply with 'beta', 'lib8eral' or '**** ATHEISTS SAY LOL' even if your stances are completely not extreme. It's become so black and white that I've seen plenty of users that used to debate things just disappear from those topics and only the ones that discuss for the sake of discussing remain. They will never change their viewpoints ever or admit that they're wrong on some level.
serious vincent out
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