It's called Slacktivism. It lets you feel good about yourself while you never get off your couch/chair to actually accomplish anything.
Jose introduced me to this one:
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Change your profile picture to a nice, juicy steak in honor of starving kids in africa.
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Which I like much more.
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Originally Posted by Seil
I don't know if it's true on this forum, because nearly every single one of us listens to some indie music, fondly remember retro cartoons and old movies/movie stars, does some form of art and share similar political beliefs in the vein of hard-right-wingers are hard-right-weiners. So maybe there's a correlation? Or am I just wrong and stupid, as usual?
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I've got a wide variety but I'm pretty much thoroughly annoyed at indie and chiptune stuff, The only cartoons I really "Fondly remember" are Animaniacs, Freakazoid and TMNT (And only then because I've got them on DVD), and I have 0 artistic talent.
My political beliefs are actually remarkably centrist, and I have as much of a hate-on for the hard-left as I do for the Hard-Right. [Centrist in a realist view; I'm far more communistic in a fantasy view.]
There's a correlation in groups, but NPF isn't one solid group; if you wanted to, you could find small groups within that suffer from groupthink.
Actually, one of the things that I like most about NPF is that you don't see massive amounts of groupthink. Two or three people might try and give excess back-pattery, but we've got a devil's advocate or ten in almost every thread. Everyone gets an opinion, and as long as it's not contrary to one or two specific people's opinions, you're perfectly welcome to have it and share it.