You make it pretty clear who you think are the good guys and who the bad guys. The world is so simple, right? > when you don't want to be a part of the people

You make it pretty clear who you think are the good guys and who the bad guys. The world is so simple, right? > when you don't want to be a part of the people calling themselves the good guys Everyone calls themselves the "good guys". How haven't you noticed that yet? People with different opinions than you aren't mustache-twirling cartoon villains, contemplating the evil things they'll do today. Identifying with a group who thinks of themselves as "the good guys" gives zero evidence that your opinions are any more correct than those of other groups. > The New York Times does not have to explain this to its audience. They already know. All they really have to do is list the cavalcade of toxicity that the community produced and everybody who has been in the Blue Tribe for years will know the score, and people like me who were actually a part of it and drifted away from the Grey Tribe to join the Blue Tribe are nodding their heads. This is just an appeal to popularity [1], not a factual argument. At least the "grey tribe" – as far as it can be considered a consistent group at all – tries to find proper arguments for its positions, and isn't content with their version of "all my friend agree with me, so I must be right". We all live in one bubble or another. We'd do well to keep that in mind. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum