Signal boosting this, long, long, piece:
Toxoplasma of Rage

“YOU KNOW WHAT NOBODY HATES EACH OTHER ABOUT YET? VIDEO GAMES.”
That's the closing quote, well those days are past huh? ;) The personal is political and all that jazz...

Radicalism is not some Moloch, it's us doing individual decisions, like throwing pebbles in a pond.
Please all; more reflection, less reflex, more empathy, less anger, more tolerance, less arrogance.

Radicalism isn't a thing, and I'll shoot anyone who says otherwise.

what you did there

i see it

You lost me at 'signal boosting.' I know we have here some cultural and language barriers, but do we have to bring along speech writers with us everywhere we go? Can't we just talk to each other any more, or do we need to keep our attorneys and publicists on speed dial all the time?

Goddamn, I'm so triggered right now. XD

Too little fruit and veg?

Yes. I don't like being triggered when my B12 levels are so low. Can't raise the endorphins to save my life.

Wonderful sarcasm :) I'm slowly regaining my faith in human rationality... Excuse me, sumth must have gotten in my eye...

Seriously though, when did we become so passive-aggressive about, you know, expressing our emotions? I suspect a lot of this radicalism is some kind of emotional compensation mechanism.

I see the feed back mechanism: express yourself, be attacked, repress expression, attack others. How I wish I could just turn a switch in all your brains... ;p

Maybe it has something to do with this.

Can you like TLDR it? I don't know if I'm up for ten pages long rant about vegans and cops.

seems we are all http://smurfs.wikia.com/wiki/Grouchy_Smurf

not scrooches this time of the year ?

HUMBUG !

HUMBUG !!

...would you like a humbug ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humbug_%28sweet%29

they are quite good

I have that personal old saying that states: "There are too many people who need to die in this life."

Also, "Damn you human diversity!"

Radical Jokes aside, through the years I more or less lost the interest in heated debates over different opinions on various topics.

I once read in a Cracked article that we, as a race, actually enjoy defending the extreme positions even if we're generally more moderate on a personal rational level, so we're naturally drawn to them.

im starting to find it largely pointless as well
peopel are just arguing for the sake fo argung mostly these days

or to make their opinions eem more right then the other persons opinion and as such their option is trufax

There's always the matter of power and acceptance. That is, we want to hold the power as the person whose opinion is right and acceptance of the group through the acceptance of our "superior" opinion. We're very much drawn to it as well.

are we ?
i tend to shrug because i cant be arsed to be drawn in to an argument

or maybe for most peopel its just this http://xkcd.com/386/