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I haven’t “become” anything. I’m the same guy I was posting years ago.

The difference is that everyone didn’t have to jam their political opinion into every single thing back then. This is a sports board about Alabama football. There is a poli board on this site. There are an innumerable amount of political boards where people can argue or get on Facebook and be in their echo chamber.

By pure nature of this being a fandom in the state of Alabama(which trends very heavily Red) of a team in the city of Tuscaloosa(which trends Blue, especially amongst students and college graduates) then bringing up hot button issues and very loosely tying them into football is going to cause a bunch of shite between people who would otherwise like each other.

Case in point: I was a regular on this board for years and had a really great rapport with a ton of guys. People liked my sense of humor and having a different view on things. I haven’t really changed anything about me. But now it’s 2024 and everyone has to be pissed off about everything. And yeah if someone randomly brings up a protest from 4 years ago that Nick Saban took part in out of the blue as a cited example of how he’d gone soft or bought in to wokeness to keep players happy then I feel obligated to call that out as being bullshite.

I probably don’t have the same world view as 80% of this board. But we like the same football team and this is a place I like to learn and joke and bullshite about football without feeling like I’m at my redneck uncle’s Thanksgiving.

what I mean by insufferable is you saying keep politics out of the sports board, yet you can't even make a post saying that without it dripping with your sjw politics nonsense. If someone says something you didn't like about BLM or whatever, just pass it by, or it's gonna turn into 3 pages, and half of that is you.