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Originally Posted by Damien
I agree. I have seen some of them on my Twitter feed and it's not nice. At the moment it's about the expulsion of the Blairites (read: moderates) if they win the leadership of the Labour party. It's the type of person for whom 'Tory' is the worst epithet they can award someone. At no point does it occur to any of them then they should be expanding the Labour electorate rather than diminishing it until it's just them and their little club. 
The whole idea of the social justice warriors and safe spaces is a bizarre internet subculture that exists only online or in some Universities. Most of the time online however they seek out the other idiots on the other side of the debate (i.e MRAs) and they all then fight an pointless battle than no one can relate too (gamergate) so they're more an interesting little group than a problem with society.
Also let's not pretend it's a problem just with the left either. The equivalent on the right are the Britain First memes that get spread around or even just the plain racist, xenophobic and misogynistic comments than you can find.
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All of which explains why some of stay clear of social media and are untroubled by the nonsense which infests it.
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Originally Posted by Derek
Hey totally unrealistic fantasyland economics have worked pretty well for the SNP up here.
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Had they got their way at the referendum, those fantasyland figures would by now be focusing a lot of minds amongst those who naively bought into all the rhetoric. Good referendum to lose methinks...