Has Election 2016 Driven Atlas Users Insane?

[Broken System]

Users are pumping out threads with sensationalized and exaggerated titles. This causes most people to come to ridiculous conclusions. Let's see who tanked their campaign today. Oh wait, it didn't actually have any effect. Are people so fed up with the current polling that wishful thinking has taken over and completely clouded over any sense of reason we have left within ourselves? Have we lost it?

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

Users are pumping out threads with sensationalized and exaggerated titles. This causes most people to come to ridiculous conclusions. Let's see who tanked their campaign today. Oh wait, it didn't actually have any effect. Are people so fed up with the current polling that wishful thinking has taken over and completely clouded over any sense of reason we have left within ourselves? Have we lost it?

You obviously haven't been on Atlas very long...

[Broken System]

I've shadowed Atlas as a guest for about 4 months, so yeah, my sample size isn't significant in relation to the entire history of this forum. Still, in my opinion, things seem to have steadily gone downhill since the beginning of the 4 months I have been tracking.

[Simfan34]

Things are a lot... weirder than they were in 2012, yes.

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

It's Trump's essence.

[Penelope]

It's certainly driven the GOP insane.

[eric82oslo]

No, it has only driven racists insane, cause Trump drives all kinds of racists insane.

[Phony Moderate]

2012 was a bit weirder in that about 13456 different past-their-sell-by-date politicians had a turn as the 'anti-Romney' within the space of about six months.

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Very few of us have any sanity left to lose.

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

a lot of the trump fandom is ironic but yeah everything is terrifying

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

I was looking at the posts from 2008 and 2012... It was just as awful, but in slightly different ways.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Watching the 2016 elections is like being a participant in an H.P. Lovecraft story.

[Taco Truck 🚚]

I am sensing two things from this forum.  The first is there is a lot of boredom and immaturity.  See the "best looking spouse" thread.  And the second is there is some political hackery.  There is one poster in particular who constantly starts scathing threads about every candidate other than the one they support.

[Lief 🗽]

Some people, not naming names but eric82oslo, seem to have mental breakdowns, yes. Very sad, but also, in some ways, very beautiful.

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

Atlas is mostly teenagers and radical leftists so...

[Figueira]

Yes, but not me. I've been driven insane for other reasons.

[Hydera]

Lots of polarization between Further to left democrats with moderate democrats and further to right republicans with moderate republicans.

Before it was Democrats vs Republicans and now its four groups against eachother.

[Maxwell]

Poor eric82oslo has lost his head this cycle with all the Nazi talk.

[Oakvale]

Poor eric82oslo has lost his head this cycle with all the Nazi talk.

Yes, Trump's energy levels have proven so high that poor Eric has blown a fuse. RIP.

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

Lots of polarization between Further to left democrats with moderate democrats and further to right republicans with moderate republicans.

Before it was Democrats vs Republicans and now its four groups against each other.

The Sandernistas on this board are entertaining though.

[I support Sanders]

Lots of polarization between Further to left democrats with moderate democrats and further to right republicans with moderate republicans.

Before it was Democrats vs Republicans and now its four groups against eachother.

It's more establishment v. outsiders, and their respective supporters (i.e. Bush/Rubio v. Trump; Clinton v. Sanders/O'Malley)

[°Leprechaun]

We need someone to start a sanity thread.

"Yes, including me."

Because of all the insanity here, I have been cutting my involvement to these boards.
It might be a good idea to take a break for a while.

It is like the statement from the movie AS Good As it Gets,
"Sell crazy some place else, I'm all stocked up here."

[Asian Nazi]

Like 90% of this subforum is sh**tposting/trolling.  I don't think it's "insanity", it's just redditification, the same sh**t going on in every other white teenage boy hangout space on the internet.

But yeah, the election cycle has driven me a bit crazy, but I think it's mostly because I'm unemployed and bored lol.

[pbrower2a]

Things are a lot... weirder than they were in 2012, yes.

In 2012 we knew the incumbent President very well. In 2016 the incumbent President will be irrelevant unless a failure.

[EliteLX]

I'm most definitely losing my mind.

The Hillary vs Sanders fans battle, GOP vs Dems overall, unexpected twists (Old Jeb struggling), Hillary vs GOP, twisted primary battle of real politicians vs outsiders, Trump frenzy starting to become living reality, GOP attempting to slaughter Hillary at every end, email bananza, you name it. It's a reality TV show this time around, gets exhausting.