Approximately once per week, I'll take 10 minutes out of my day to read to the comments to an article (typically political) on any one of these news sites. It's somewhat of a morbid fascination - akin to visiting a freak show. However, one can really only take in limited doses of such unrelenting assaults on logic, decency and the English language before the risk of developing a brain tumor starts to exponentially increase. I was not scheduled for such a visit into the absurd, but this article just adjusted my schedule so thank you for that.
But in all truth, when reading these comments in bulk, I force myself to believe that most of them are lulz-motivated automated bot responses and not the voice of America. To believe that this is what qualifies as genuine discourse for so many people is simply too depressing to acknowledge.
Approximately once per week, I'll take 10 minutes out of my day to read to the comments to an article (typically political) on any one of these news sites. It's somewhat of a morbid fascination - akin to visiting a freak show. However, one can really only take in limited doses of such unrelenting assaults on logic, decency and the English language before the risk of developing a brain tumor starts to exponentially increase. I was not scheduled for such a visit into the absurd, but this article just adjusted my schedule so thank you for that.
But in all truth, when reading these comments in bulk, I force myself to believe that most of them are lulz-motivated automated bot responses and not the voice of America. To believe that this is what qualifies as genuine discourse for so many people is simply too depressing to acknowledge.