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Originally Posted by Pirouetting Nightmare
I personalllllllyyyyy had to alter my posts because someone doesn't think that I'm having an awful time, of being stressed about things, that may be political but also affect me personally if they happen[/STRIKE]
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Look, I get it. I really do. But there's a really big "if" right there, and the political climate over the last few years has been such that more harm has been done by people freaking out over things that might be than by actual changes to the law.
If something actually HAS affected you personally, and it happens to be political in nature, then that's fine. Feel free to talk about it in this thread!
But my concern about allowing hypothetical future political events in this thread is that they tend to monopolize discussion. People (and I'm not saying you in particular) can get very irrational about political things, and we can't even say for sure that the predictions are going to happen. And worse, for the most part there's really nothing any of us can do about any of it at a personal level.
Politics are divisive. I want this thread to be a place where people can come together and share in each other's burdens, not a place where hot-button issues get people in conflict with each other.
(Also, as was mentioned: If you want to just vent somewhere about an issue that's bothering you and you explicitly don't want anyone responding to it, that's what the Dirty Little Secrets thread is for.)