Comment by zdragnar
2 days ago
There have been places where reasonable debate was possible, but I suspect they were far more ephemeral than OP's recollection.
It's kinda sad to watch places you enjoyed fall into it, though. One particular subreddit that I've never seen be overtly political before now has an effectively endorsed opinion on someone (not Trump). There's no point engaging with it, because piling on more hate is the only socially acceptable opinion there.
Wild guess that that "someone" is Musk?
Regardless, if you like the guy, you should defend him. If you can do it in a noncombative way you might at least get some people to back off a bit.