The Discord itself has no explicit purpose, but it was a companion to a now defunct constellation of facebook pages that were designed to give leftists and righ

The Discord itself has no explicit purpose, but it was a companion to a now defunct constellation of facebook pages that were designed to give leftists and rightists neutral ground to discuss their criticisms of society and the media landscape the typical brigading or flamewars. After two or three facebook purges, the admins gave up on maintaining that community, but the Discord's still around and mostly runs itself, because the environment is inherently toxic to knee-jerk ideologues.