Didn't your people term it? Schadenfreude? People love to see people they hate fail. Well, now it can happen with social media where everyone is given a voice regardless of their education or credentials.

Couldn't agree more. I sometimes think an alien attack is the only thing that will bring the Earth together.

Or a justice field, like on Red Dwarf:

https://youtu.be/IlaNKKHzNKQ

https://youtu.be/vO4Xw6m9lAI

There is certainly a lot about todays political climate that reminds me of the McCarthyism in the US in the 50s. Only with the political sides reversed.

And ain't that kind of sad? That we always need an outside "other" to be declared "enemy" to overcome our differences and actually start working together?

Funny enough even MLK has been branded a racist said movements in recent years.. yes I ain't kidding thats a thing and funny enough the old psa's that said'' don't look at a person or judge them as this or that on the difference look at them as just a human. and judge the person on their specific character '' has also been tossed aside declared bigoted to think like that anymore as now its somehow deemed not bigoted to judge people by thier race,sex , belief and everything and see them as what they clearly are .. Rather then on the merit of the person

Edit sorry replied to the wrong or rather mostly the wrong thread post of the person my bad

I've never understood why GOG has kept the downvote button all this time. This was a cause for unnecessary hostility and bad feelings also way back when this place was a nice and cosy small forum. A downvote button seems to be interpreted quite differently by people. Some thinks it is a way to mark dissent without actually bothering to post something, while others look upon a downvote to themselves as a personal attack.

While I understand that some people have a way of expressing their opinions that often annoys people, I think the kind of constant downvoting that some people receive here is a form of bullying.

Can we...stop calling it cancel culture and just call it what we used to call it?

IE: Concenquences & the mob mentality?

I don't even know who this Chris is, but we just need to pull ourselves back and see what the actual facts are, whatever they may be.

A rape accusation is serious, and it should be considered as such. Instead of going straight to vilification or exoneration unless the character or background of someone would make it determinedly obvious; like Pogo the Clown.

It's an accusation with no evidence.

Yes it is. But that's the standard method that 'those with the power' use to control us. I'm british, and my friends in india and russia and china and 'murca think the same thing. Unfortunately, my friends and I have no power and have no influence over the media, so we fight each other.

Tribalism. It's an ancient control mechanism that had its place at one time, but should be left in the past. It no longer fits with our new world, our new technology. Our AI attack drones and our Nukes and our AK47's.

The NRA is fond of saying, "Gun's don't kill people, people do.". Obviously that's nonsense. But they are right in one sense. We are our worst enemy.

Its unavoidable to go strait to assuming its a attempt to to vilification or exoneration on claiming rape and not think its a lie after far too many during the ''MeToo'' movement was found to be lying woman who just wanted something by lying ... So anymore ... Its hard to take any rape allegations or claims as anything but lies from people lying so much during that movement and many that was at the forefront even was found to have raped people themselves yet started the movement anyway and was figure heads of it

That's one way of looking at it. I definitely agree that the underlying human traits haven't changed and that the mechanics of totalitarianism are similar on the left and right.

Humans are definitely defined to a large degree by their biology, but they are also very adaptable and their behavior can be changed a lot by habitat, culture and technology. Just not as much as ideological dogma assume, since ideology often ignores biology and often assumes perfect scenarios while man is imperfect.

Party politics is a relative new invention, but it is easy to see that the reason it has worked so well/worked so badly, is because it has co-opted old forager instincts about internal norm enforcement and hostility to those not in the tribe into a new cultural invention. Modern information technology and the way we use it seems to enhance some of the destructive effects of politics.

It's how masses tend to get spurred into action. Usually requires three ingredients:
1. A general dissatisfaction with how things are going.
2. A trigger event to ignite that dissatisfaction.
3. A target to channel it towards and unite against.
*nods* But...
It's easy to unite against. If it's a threat, real or perceived, particularly easy, everyone wants to be safe from it. But also if it's a target, someone seen as guilty of something people can agree is bad or at least against their interests or the way they want the world to work.
When it comes to fighting for something, it's much harder, because if one's to put their time, effort and resources into building something, they'll want to do so for what they see as good and right, the future they want, and here you tend to have everyone going in a different direction.
Much easier to agree that something's bad than to agree that something's good, and even harder to agree that something's good enough to be worth really fighting for over all other things that your time, energy and resources may be used for.

Tribalism is probably going to stay with us as long as our biology remains the same way it is. But I think things like soccer matches is a much healthier way of using those instincts than party politics or warfare. Just like those who partake in S&M have found a healthy outlet for the human need to dominate and submit to other people.

But whether such "healthy outlets" actually does anything to alleviate the less healthy ones I do not know.

Are you serious? Many gamers know who he is, or at least have a basic idea.....and for those that don't: there's info in the OP post and/or one could use their search engine of choice

*GR looks to the rest of the thread*

Hey y'all....care to say it with me?

Innocent until proven guilty