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Comment author: skeptical_lurker 28 September 2015 09:47:59PM *  11 points [-]

There are sometimes controversial discussions here, and I wonder how these conversations play out at meetups. Do you ever get an anarchist, a communist and a neoreactionary turning up to the same meeting? If so, does it cause problems? Or, indeed, do discussions about dust specks/torture or other controversial but apolitical topics ever get heated?

LW seems far more cool-headed than the rest of the world, and I am wondering to what extent it might be partially due to being online.

Personally, I have only gone to a few meetups, but I think I have managed to offend people :(

Comment author: ChristianKl 30 September 2015 03:41:54PM 2 points [-]

Do you ever get an anarchist, a communist and a neoreactionary turning up to the same meeting?

Among those I have only seen an anarchist at our meetups in Berlin.

LW seems far more cool-headed than the rest of the world, and I am wondering to what extent it might be partially due to being online.

In person I notice more empathy than online but have never witnessed any heated problematic conversations.