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Twitters censorship just serves to further polarize and divide people. As the right bails on twitter and goes to pure conservative echo chambers and the left s

Twitters censorship just serves to further polarize and divide people. As the right bails on twitter and goes to pure conservative echo chambers and the left stays in their leftist echo chambers... any shared interactions are lost. Even though it's their right as a private company...its truly a shame that Twitter is acting like this.

Tokkemon 6y ago
If a faction of society that breeds on lies decides to self-isolate and/or act in a way to get pushed out of the mainstream, that shouldn't be a controversial action. The faction does it to themselves.
- nickthemagicman 6y ago
  I appreciate your opinions. This isn't a small fringe group. The right is almost 50% of the country. The fact that you're demonizing such a large group instead of attempting to understand them reveals a little of your fanaticism that you may not even be aware of.
war1025 6y ago
> As the right bails on twitter For what it's worth, I've stopped commenting on HackerNews because any even moderately pro-Trump opinion is met by the downvote brigade. In my opinion, interacting with strangers online is just a recipe for a bad time. I'd cease social media entirely, but I'm not allowed to be social out in the real world anymore, and work is too boring to stay focused for an entire work day.
- nickthemagicman 6y ago
  I'm very centrist so I respect and support aspects of both sides. I don't think the extreme left realizes it but they're just as fanatical as the right. I've had your same experiences on hacker news at times. It's a down vote brigade for anything counter to the progressive narrative whether it's Trump or Covid or Global Warming or other progressive ideas. It's a great site though and I have had some great conversations and learned a lot as long as you steer clear of the progressive agenda. Reddit is way worse. It makes hacker news look like The Wall Street Journal. There's a theory called horseshoe theory that claims that the fanatical left and right have more in common with each other than they do centrists. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory

Tokkemon 6y ago

If a faction of society that breeds on lies decides to self-isolate and/or act in a way to get pushed out of the mainstream, that shouldn't be a controversial action. The faction does it to themselves.

nickthemagicman 6y ago
I appreciate your opinions. This isn't a small fringe group. The right is almost 50% of the country. The fact that you're demonizing such a large group instead of attempting to understand them reveals a little of your fanaticism that you may not even be aware of.

war1025 6y ago

> As the right bails on twitter For what it's worth, I've stopped commenting on HackerNews because any even moderately pro-Trump opinion is met by the downvote brigade. In my opinion, interacting with strangers online is just a recipe for a bad time. I'd cease social media entirely, but I'm not allowed to be social out in the real world anymore, and work is too boring to stay focused for an entire work day.

nickthemagicman 6y ago
I'm very centrist so I respect and support aspects of both sides. I don't think the extreme left realizes it but they're just as fanatical as the right. I've had your same experiences on hacker news at times. It's a down vote brigade for anything counter to the progressive narrative whether it's Trump or Covid or Global Warming or other progressive ideas. It's a great site though and I have had some great conversations and learned a lot as long as you steer clear of the progressive agenda. Reddit is way worse. It makes hacker news look like The Wall Street Journal. There's a theory called horseshoe theory that claims that the fanatical left and right have more in common with each other than they do centrists. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory