As a 'normal person' what do you think of Current Affairs/IMHO

It's a bit of an echo chamber for journal.ie commenter types. Middle aged men who are against most things, think climate change is a scam, hate the Greens, hate cyclists, are scared of urban areas etc. It would make you despair but if you look at Reddit Ireland which has a significantly younger crowd, they're far more progressive in their views, so that gives me hope.

There are a few people who have been posting here for several times a day for the past decade. That alone amazes me, but when you realise they're mostly arguing about politics I really begin to wonder what they're actually like in real life. They can't be well.

By you saying the younger crowd are more progressive, the oldie echo chamber people would probably describe them as woke.🤣

Yes but the cesspit that are the comments are where you'd more likely find your kin

"My Kin"

And who exactly would they be now?

Well on Boards you encounter

People with bad spelling and Grammar(Like myself).

People who are conservative.

People who are a tad slow.

People who you dread running into. I'm thinking of one lad who ruins threads. If you see he's the last poster I nearly avoid it.

Those one's you can say nothing around without them getting offended.

I'm top of my list!

You left out Homophobic!

It's the internet.

People go online and pick up all sorts of batshit crazy nonsense about other people that they have never, ever, once come into contact with in the real world. They then go onto the web and repeat the batshit crazy nonsense about other people that have never, ever, once come into contact with in the real world and the cycle repeats ad nauseam.

As for conspiracy theory, it used to just be a bit of gas that was mainly the realm of a few odd balls. Gibberish like fake moon landings or secret Arctic nazi bases were all just pretty harmless. The problem is nowadays, conspiracy theory has been weaponised by a certain cohort of politics and is used to rile vulnerable and stupid people up leading to idiotic utterances about Democrats using pizzerias as child abuse dungeons or the scenes we saw on Jan 6th in the US. This is where conspiracy theory has become truly dangerous and has gone beyond being a bit of gas that some might want to indulge in to pass an hour.

There is a clear journey of how this has evolved since the 9/11 inside job "theories" that were passed around 20 years ago. But at least they had some genuine debate surrounding them. These days, all some twat has to say is that the election was stolen and they'll have a ton of nodding idiots lining up to agree...and all without a single bit of elaboration, never mind actual evidence to support the, so called, "theory".

The old argument that certain factions used to trot out was that it's a private platform whenever someone was banned for expressing a controversial opinion that they disagreed with..

I'm a fan of either but when Alex Jones and Donald Trump were banned. Suck it up it's a private platform was the consensus among people who disagree with them.

I just want to see what happens when the same idiotic logic is applied to the people with opposite opinions.

What are opinions opposite to trump and alex jones exactly, people who believe the election wasnt stolen or people who dont think the parkland shooting was fake? Why would these views be banned when there is a shed load of evidence to support those two positions. CA does allow alot of conspiracy theories to be mentioned without bans but im not sure it adds to the quality of discussions.

I don’t like to assume, H. Especially after getting it wrong with thinking it was McMurphy and the “Big 10” you were referring to.

Now, a chara, why don’t you “enlighten” the congregation, hmmm?