[godelski]

I think part of it is that one side throws rocks and so it never even matters was is in the article. It becomes a battle if the article is good or the article is shit.

Yes, I'm tired too. I want you have real discussions about these things. But the problem is everyone believes their reality is real and anyone's reality that disagrees is fake. It just escalates. I take long breaks from HN because I realize I just come to the forums and end up being angry. Why do we do this to ourselves? The reality is that at a core level we usually want the same things.

[tinfoilhatter]

IMO it's because people have fragile egos / worldviews they don't want shaken. Pretty much any opinion I type on this website gets instantly downvoted, unless it reaffirms the popular / mainstream narrative, because I happen to see the world differently than most.

This website is quite awful, and I also don't know why I spend any time on it. It's definitely not a website intended for meaningful discourse. It's a website where you can reaffirm whatever opinion is already established, and if your opinion is at all controversial or even just out of the box, you'll be punished for it.