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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe toxicity of the Greenwald/Snowden threads makes me long for the nuanced civility of ...
the guns, pit bull, Olive Garden, and circumcision wars.
No one on either side of the NSA issue even pretends to try and persuade, it's all about the "you're a mindless worshipper" or "you're a mindless hater" bullshit.
I believe Casey Kasem said it best: "Ponderous, fucking ponderous".
sibelian
(7,804 posts)I've trashed tons.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)sibelian
(7,804 posts)I'm not sure if it improved anything. Anyway, loads of people are ignoring me, now.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)they are ignored.
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)jazzimov
(1,456 posts)An honest attempt to change the laws to provide for better protections of our privacy rights, while still supplying our government the ability to catch those who would do us harm. There is plenty of room for controversy and discussion.
I think most of us can agree on that.
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)I think the GG toxicity is somehow amplified from without.
Notice that the toxic posts are trying to move those who are trying to look at facts into one camp or other and miss the point that it's not about any individual's role but about a systemic dismantling of constitutional protections.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)and forming an opinion, lol. Nope, no thanks.
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)That was the theme of the first essay assignment that we had to write in Mrs. Wheeler's 6th grade class.
I can't remember all of what I said in that essay, but it had to be dull.
Dull, dull, dreadfully dull.
Dull as dulled nails that had been hammered on the wrong end of the nail.