Society/Culture Is the SRP too negative?

[Gethelred]

It's a question that concerns as much the reality the SRP reflects as it does the nature of the SRP itself.

Do we only ever look at the crises, the negatives, the downsides? Is the glass always half empty? Is there no reason for optimisim? Is improvement always too hard, a step forward too far away? Is it as our conservative friends would have it, impossible without a loss of something; identity or soul?

Are we catastrophists or realists? Are we merely observing the things others ignore, or are we blinding ourselves to potential new dawns?

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[burge13]

The SRP is an echo chamber bubble curated by people who seldom have views that match anything in the real world with regular people...

 

[CM86]

It's a question that concerns as much the reality the SRP reflects as it does the nature of the SRP itself.

Do we only ever look at the crises, the negatives, the downsides? Is the glass always half empty? Is there no reason for optimisim? Is improvement always too hard, a step forward too far away? Is it as our conservative friends would have it, impossible without a loss of something; identity or soul?

Are we catastrophists or realists? Are we merely observing the things others ignore, or are we blinding ourselves to potential new dawns?

Post your views. Standard board rules apply.

I think the serious nature of so many topics on this board lends itself to more tense discussions, and hypotheticals about worse case scenarios etc.

But there is still plenty of laughter and jokes.

There is a small contingent of far right/Maga/cooker type poster who will always complain and act like this is a terrible place. But they stay because of what it offers. Or until their mask slips all the way off and they are banned.
Interestingly the ones who always complain about this board while posting in it, also smugly call out people who take issue with Twitter.

I'd say that in terms of online forums for political discourse this is a lot less negative than most.
And the positives from seeing interesting discussions and exchanges between knowledgeable posters is worth it.

 

[Kram]

The SRP is an echo chamber bubble curated by people who seldom have views that match anything in the real world with regular people...

A lot super agressive opinion usually from a place of complete ignorance. Along with a heap of totally hypocritical ones.

 

[Seeds]

Yes the attack on the status quo as being evil (capitalism, liberalism, democracy) simply because it wasnt perfect despite the considerable improvements in income, leisure time, reduced violence rates, health, reduced chore time, reduced discrimination, increased tolerance and life expectancy is totally way too negative. And its leading to support for systems/ideologies (on both the left and right) that will far more negatively impact those variables. I fear in 10-20 years time we will look back with misery and anger at how we let these systems fall.

 

[Episode IV]

It's a question that concerns as much the reality the SRP reflects as it does the nature of the SRP itself.

Do we only ever look at the crises, the negatives, the downsides? Is the glass always half empty? Is there no reason for optimisim? Is improvement always too hard, a step forward too far away? Is it as our conservative friends would have it, impossible without a loss of something; identity or soul?

Are we catastrophists or realists? Are we merely observing the things others ignore, or are we blinding ourselves to potential new dawns?

Post your views. Standard board rules apply.

I think you'll need to be far more specific.

 

[rank and file]

The SRP is an echo chamber bubble curated by people who seldom have views that match anything in the real world with regular people...

BF in general has walked itself into corner.
Used to be genuinely funny,2024 not so much.
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Wouldn't say it's too negative,you could easily dial it up.