Hardly surprising. "Everyone is shit but me, and as long as they stay away from me, then more power to them." tends to be the mantra of this community. I can't help but wonder for how long this hyper-liberalism would last when certain things rubbed a bit
too closely, though. For example, the liberalism here is so extreme that some members genuinely feel there is nothing wrong with incest[footnote]Please don't quote me expecting to get into a discussion on whether it is right or wrong. That is not the purpose of this post.[/footnote], given the right conditions. It's all very well they sit here saying "whatever man i'm cool with it" when they're safely behind their computer screens miles away from any such activity, but if it was brought to their attention in a much more personal way, i think their tone would change dramatically in a considerably short space of time.
I guess that's why people tend to have an air of superiority here. The more left wing liberal you are, the more 'superior' you are to others; and you don't even have to mean it. As long as you say you're fine with everything, you are above those who say they are not, because they are considered "backward" in their thinking. The problem is it's all too easy to say that (relatively) anonymously behind a computer screen on the internet. This leads to a lot of quaffing and people agreeing with each other that everyone else who does
not explicitly agree with them is inferior, and because the majority of the general public (society at large outside of the internet) falls neatly into this line of thinking
de facto, it also leads to a general "everyone sucks but me" misanthropy of the users here because of how the community fosters a very specific train of thought through social engineering.
lSHaDoW-FoXl said:
And what in the world is a hipster?
"Hipster" is a hilariously generic term used to define people who used to like things "before they were cool". For example, say someone used to read the Harry Potter books before all the publicity that was attained through the movie adaptations. They enjoyed that particular, perhaps not well known, franchise before it got any major publicity. Then out come the movies and suddenly everyone knows all about the books and it's all they talk about. Suddenly you can't get away from the thing you enjoyed, making you inevitably come to loathe it. Then you say "Sigh. I used to like the Harry Potter books
before they were cool". Then suddenly the new initiated turn around and say "Man, you're such a hipster!". The reason for the negative connotation is that people believe hipsters are like this purely for the attention of "oh look at this completely obscure niche no-one has ever heard of except for me", thus feeding into some sort of self-belief that they are superior in some way for not being part of the "sheeple" and following the mainstream. While i dislike the overuse of that label, i'll just say i think there are a fair few hipsters here, though not all of them fulfil the stereotype of being a hipster just to "be cool"; some people genuinely liked things before popularity ruined it. I'm like that with the Call of Duty franchise. I loved CoD 2, it's my favourite one to this day. However its popularity meant all of a sudden it's everywhere, it comes out every year, and it's attracted a certain demographic that make you ashamed to be associated with the franchise.
