+1 for the OP. This forum has become painfully dull. All the interesting people have either been banned or driven off. The very occasional political thread that pops up here look to be nothing but echo chambers for slightly left-of-center millenials who think regurgitating years-old jokes is the soul of wit. The diversity of viewpoints and experiences that used to frequent this forum was something I appreciated a great deal. Unfortunately, the mods have decided that conformity of opinion ("civility") is more important than diversity. We see the result. It's their site, so it's their call, but I for one pine for the days when this forum included Stalinists, Truthers, Holocaust Deniers, Militant Zionists, lecherous old men and their fantasies about teenage girls, unrepentant Neocons, Alex Jones listeners, self-employed gazillionaires, and pansexual anarcho-syndicalists. Checking the forum here used to be a kind of intellectual pornography for me, but now, it has become about as interesting as a suburban tract of cookie-cutter homes.
C'est la vie, I suppose.
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