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I would honestly be happy if this whole site somehow changed so that culture war things weren't the core thing. I'd be happy if the general concept of Tolerate Disagreement was the core thing, and Tolerate Disagreement About The Culture War was merely a niche.
Hard to get there from here, of course.
(I'd be less happy if doing this required completely eliminating Tolerate Disagreement About The Culture War, I probably wouldn't take that tradeoff.)
Fair enough.
I think politics-y topics are unusually likely to be ones where people don't tolerate disagreement, though, and so politics would be a large part of the hardly-anywhere-else-will-tolerate-disagreement-on-this-topic niche?
(I'm also not even that sure that we're that great at tolerating disagreement, though surely much better than the internet average.)
I think that's generally true, but pretty much everything is politics-adjacent now and then. That doesn't mean everything needs to be all politics all the time though. Certainly Reddit has a problem where the moment anything becomes political, it turns into Hivemind Central.
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