I have been watching, with a mixture of sadness and schadenfreude, an online community disintegrate in just this manner, since right around the New Aetheism spl

I have been watching, with a mixture of sadness and schadenfreude, an online community disintegrate in just this manner, since right around the New Aetheism split. Boiling the frog is the name of the game. It plays out so predictably, too. First, they -- we -- came for the fundamentalist conservatives, but I was not ... Then it was the fiscal conservatives, then the moderates, the liberal guys who didn't manage to seem vaguely embarrassed to be heterosexual, and so on. They all get together and "discuss" things until someone (or more than just one) leaves the site. Throw in a unhealthy dose of "dogwhistle" paranoia and "everyone who disagrees with me is a goosestepping fascist buying Nazi memorabilia on the darkweb" disdain and, well, it's amazing to watch.