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  • (Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Monday October 22 2018, @12:30AM (6 children)

    by Magic Oddball (3847) on Monday October 22 2018, @12:30AM (#751823) Journal

    "Mindlessly hyper-partisan political zombies" is what came to my mind. It's becoming difficult to believe that people across the political spectrum used to regularly discuss relevant problems topics online without large numbers launching into stupid name-calling.

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  • (Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Monday October 22 2018, @12:37AM (5 children)

    by Magic Oddball (3847) on Monday October 22 2018, @12:37AM (#751826) Journal

    To be clear, I'm not suggesting that the zombie-free conversations were anything recent; the last time I recall it being completely normal was sometime before 2001.

    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Thexalon on Tuesday October 23 2018, @12:42AM (4 children)

      by Thexalon (636) on Tuesday October 23 2018, @12:42AM (#752262)

      Godwin's Law was formulated in 1990. Prior to the existence of the Internet, BBS's got quite heated too, and prior to widespread computers you weren't supposed to talk about religion and politics in polite company.

      In short, those good old days you're pining for never existed.

      --
      The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
      • (Score: 2) by VLM on Monday October 29 2018, @01:49PM (3 children)

        by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Monday October 29 2018, @01:49PM (#755080)

        Can go all the way back to Socrates WRT people getting really butt hurt about sophistry and arguments in general. A more biblical scholar might find an anecdote pre-dating Socrates.

        Its an "emergent phenomena" plenty of interesting wiki articles and google results.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 06 2018, @06:56PM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 06 2018, @06:56PM (#758635)

          Can go all the way back to Socrates WRT people getting really butt hurt about sophistry and arguments in general. A more biblical scholar might find an anecdote pre-dating Socrates.

          Maybe, but since the Bible is nearly all fiction, those citations won't mean a thing. At least Socrates actually existed, something which cannot be said for most of the fictional characters in the Bible. And those that did exist are completely misrepresented by the document ("spin" old- and new-testament style)

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 12 2018, @04:10PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 12 2018, @04:10PM (#760945)

            Maybe, but since the Bible is nearly all fiction, those citations won't mean a thing.

            Whoever wrote those texts certainly existed. And them including such things in their texts means at least that such things were not alien to those authors.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 11 2018, @11:05PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 11 2018, @11:05PM (#760732)

          Sure. God himself doesn't like arguments any more than people. From Numbers 16 [biblegateway.com]:

          Korah [and others] became insolent and rose up against Moses. With them were 250 [..] appointed members of the council.
          [They asked Moses] “Why do you set yourselves above the Lord’s assembly?”
          [..]The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Separate yourselves from this assembly so I can put an end to them at once.”
          [..]fire came out from the Lord and consumed the 250 men
          [..]The Lord said to Moses, “[..] remove the censers from the charred remains and scatter the coals some distance away, for the censers are holy
          [..]The next day the whole Israelite community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. “You have killed the Lord’s people,” they said.
          [..]the Lord said to Moses, “Get away from this assembly so I can put an end to them at once.”
          [..]14,700 people died from the plague, in addition to those who had died because of Korah.

          Almost 15,000 people were killed by God because one dared to question Moses' leadership.