# Pitting Uzi's useless claim about the SDMB being an echo chamber **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-uzis-useless-claim-about-the-sdmb-being-an-echo-chamber/1014060 **Category:** The BBQ Pit **Created:** [February 8, 2025, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-uzis-useless-claim-about-the-sdmb-being-an-echo-chamber/1014060 "2025-02-08T21:24:54Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 114
### Author: ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster) #### Post date: [February 9, 2025, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-uzis-useless-claim-about-the-sdmb-being-an-echo-chamber/1014060/114 "2025-02-09T18:02:38Z")
> [@filmore](#): > > One thing that I think would help is if everyone considered whether they were participating in a conversation with the goal of making positive changes in society or if they they are trying to make themselves feel better by getting anger about the topic off their chests. We all know how good it feels to tell someone “F-OFF A-HOLE!!!”, but that moment of emotional relief we feel can often be counterproductive to actually affecting societal changes. Based on one recent debate [about Hawaii’s supreme court, deciding on disagreeing just a bit with the US supreme court](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-control-again-but-topical-hawaii-supreme-court-declares-second-amendment-infringes-on-the-spirit-of-aloha/997343), what you say here is not accurate. As for myself, I am on the record of supporting gun rights, but latest developments show me that the reckless application of the second amendment by many conservatives in the US is still a huge problem and it does not help when the right wing is constantly demanding to turn even feeble guardrails like enforcing licensing in better ways, as being equal to “take guns away”. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-uzis-useless-claim-about-the-sdmb-being-an-echo-chamber/1014060)._