I remember so much hoorah about this place being some sort of bastion of free speech and debate. All that goes on here, though, is republicans/libertarians/an caps giving each other a massive wank job and downvoating dissenting opinion. Good job guys. You're the reddit of the Republican Party.

Threads like the new California voter registration bill are a perfect example. Every moron in there instantly presumes that California will "give illegals the right to vote", probably some news source implanted that absolutely asinine statement in their heads. No, it's illegal to register illegals, republican leaders are afraid that they will be ""accidentally"" registered, and that's voter fraud. But that doesn't stop everyone in the thread from believing that's what California is doing. But who bothers to check basic facts or think? Fact checking is for hippy liberals. Nice to see a healthy dose of obvious racism, though.

The sad part is, I consider myself a right winger at heart. I'm just far enough left of this subreddit to incur the wrath of the stupids by not toeing the party line.

Now, I've unsubscribed. This is not a subverse for any degree of discussion, it's demagogues of the worst sort controlling discussion and wanking about idiocies, all centered around the American right. This is no better than reddit.