What I meant was that the level of discourse in the US has been at retardation-level for many decades, and it's not any worse today. It's just a different kind of ridiculously terrible.
Guess being an Odie fan only did half the job....
And if you look at Heathcliff your gender will be inversed.
What about heathcliff? Will he reverse the effect?! I need to know for... reasons.