I joined another forum site recently, because almost all of it is hidden to non-members. Seems a little skeezy in itself, but an attraction was its claim "strictly non-political."

For several days that seemed true enough. Attempts at starting such threads got moved to a quarantined sub-forum and typically soon closed.

Then this crap breaks out in the middle east, and whoa!

Thread after thread hard-lining one position, all but unmoderated until any opposition to the Party Line is hinted at in a post. Posting link after link to "photos of murdered children" and such. Demands made of countering voices to recant. Listing names of people "canceled" out of their careers due to their opinions on this conflict. None of it moved to quarantine, despite diatribes that would make a WW II fascist blush.

I followed some links and found the same thing occurring during other events. One of the biggest being during that Canadian Trucker's Protest interval.

Such a hostile place, hiding innocently and then lashing out hard. Canadian based, which explains a lot. Spend some time in Toronto or Montreal and you will find out fast. I'm not sure how many Americans realize how foreign things are in Canada's population centers.