Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
Remember that many shows which are totally positive in pretty much every way are still used to push just one seed of an idea carefully hidden inside. As long as we are aware of this propaganda/brainwashing, we can enjoy the content and not let it affect us.
My own personal experience was with the show Parks and Recreation, where there is a libertarian character called Ron Swanson who is such an amazingly based character. He eats nothing but meat, hates government, hates banks, stores his savings in gold and silver dug under his property, and gives fantastic lectures about evils of government.
But, there is one episode, where they carefully make him push "Gender studies" and crap like that, and why its so important. Now when I watch it again, I can discern this careful propaganda and even reflect back at how my own views about gender studies softened because of this the first time I watched.
However, these things always backfire. They made this character so wholesome that he got a cult following, and tons of people learnt about big government etc because of this show. So for every based person whose views about gender studies softened, there were 10 people who learnt about evils of big government.