Shout to Ashionok.
We can all recognize hot takes on the gaming side because the stakes there are low and unimportant (outside of the unethical production🤸🏾‍♂️). We expect a level of seriousness in political debate despite plenty of unserious people debating for the wrong reasons and and as a result fall for the okey doke time and time again.
Just because you're making is a valid and morally right point does not mean it's pertinent to the specific discussion currently happening in the thread. We need to thread the line between calling out bullshit, clarifying and challenging positions but also not dunking for the sake of easy rhetorical alley-ops causing thread derails and making nuanced discussion impossible.
We need to recognize that personal politics and opinions grow and change over time -hopefully- in a positive direction and thats the only way to delay the seemingly inevitable apocalypse. Only way is to bring people into the fold through challenging biases, checking our own bullshit that we think we don't have, expose each other to factual information and new viewpoints. THIS IS THE CORE POINT OF THIS THREAD.
TL, DR:
We can all recognize hot takes on the gaming side because the stakes there are low and unimportant (outside of the unethical production🤸🏾‍♂️). We expect a level of seriousness in political debate despite plenty of unserious people debating for the wrong reasons and and as a result fall for the okey doke time and time again.
Just because you're making is a valid and morally right point does not mean it's pertinent to the specific discussion currently happening in the thread. We need to thread the line between calling out bullshit, clarifying and challenging positions but also not dunking for the sake of easy rhetorical alley-ops causing thread derails and making nuanced discussion impossible.
We need to recognize that personal politics and opinions grow and change over time -hopefully- in a positive direction and thats the only way to delay the seemingly inevitable apocalypse. Only way is to bring people into the fold through challenging biases, checking our own bullshit that we think we don't have, expose each other to factual information and new viewpoints. THIS IS THE CORE POINT OF THIS THREAD.
TL, DR:
- Be respectful and watch your tone. No personal attacks or arguments. An asshole is still an asshole even if they are right.
- If it's a take that takes less then five seconds of thought don't bother making it.
- Report, don't feed the trolls.
- Stay on topic and no thread hijacking even if you feel it is for the right reason.
- Due to how close reality is to parody, please label joke posts.
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