I had a depressing stroll over on ResetERA, just going through some of those threads is painful. I see "read the room" a lot as a reply to someone who is saying something mildly against the grain and then that account gets banned, it's a nasty tactic and on top of that you can nearly sense the fear they have of each other and notice how they are wording things methiculously to avoid being banned. They've created one hell of cesspool, I'd very nearly think it's a social experiment run by a team of scientists out of some communist country to see how to manipulate western ideals. I was particularly intrigued by the reception to the Matthew McConuahay thread that was trending earlier about the perfectly reasonable comment that the left and right should find a way to meet in the middle. Christ though, almost every thread is a parody and almost every user is either a clown or a clown follower, afraid that the other clowns will excommunicate them, man it's a sad corner of the internet and i didn't know it was THAT absolutely batshit insane.
