I've found Meetup.com beneficial. It isn't free for group creators but I'm OK with that since it is a lot simpler than creating a Facebook account, pouring through all the privacy and security settings, turning off as many notifications as possible, etc.
It was Alinsky who instructed people on how to personalize politics. It is thus a tactic of the left. If conservatives are finally fighting back, that is to their credit.
People have been personalizing politics since before there was even a word for politics. You merely fall prey to the same logical fallacy (ad hominem) you appear to rail against.
Polycystic ovarian syndrome, which contributes to obesity in women, seems to have adaptive advantages in famine of the type speculated upthread (and also including increased fertility then, though decreased fertility in abundant food situations.)
It's not too much of a stretch to consider that there may be metabolic conditions in men linked to obesity risk that have the same kind of advantages in reduced-food-supply situations.
> Wouldn't tougher requirements on non-producing patent holders be a better way to go?
That would be inadequate in my opinion. No doubt some NPE are particularly vile, but producers abuse patents, too.
Producers like to manipulate the narrative by focusing attention on NPEs and pretending that NPE are the cause of all patent abuse, even while the producers themselves are abusing patents.
