No, tribalism is when your reactions are based on team colors, not logic. Which is what appears to be the case, because nobody's addressed my central thesis: That Rand Paul falsely claimed he would have died, without police intervention. The situation was dangerous, but being jostled and shouted at is a long, long, long, long, long way from guaranteed death. He's exaggerating for political purposes, making this a clear case of political theater. If any of you really valued objectivity, you would have addressed this point.
Instead, what you (collective) have done is make assumptions about my personality, my emotional state, and a broad spectrum of my beliefs and political leanings, and then attacked me based on that caricature. Correction: Not a caricature, because caricatures are based on real things, just amplified. Completely imaginary and unrelated is more accurate. You're so far off, you're not even in the right galaxy.
Alathon reply to me ranted about globalism, equalitarian programming, and whatever the hell civnauts are. None of which had anything to do with Rand Paul's little dramatism, or my personal beliefs. Steven Mitchell did bring up a point, but a nonsense one: Paul being physically attacked by a neighbor in an unrelated incident doesn't mean the crowd in the latest event was really trying to kill him. Sureshot just made a post ostensibly against echo chambers and in favor of hearing from both sides (though thinking there are just 2 sides is a sign of tribalism), but used those to defend the dogpile against the one person expressing a dissenting view -- which requires a rather extreme level of cognitive dissonance. Note that the first two laced their very first replies to my posts with personal attacks directed at me, and the last questioned my motives instead of addressing anything I've said. While I respond in kind, I never initiated those kind of attacks.
What I hate most about tribalism is it shuts down any conversations. When people make stuff up about me instead of reacting to what I actually say, that's it. There's no way to get beyond that to discuss the issues, and it just turns into tiresome sniping and back and forth. I try to avoid this by always reframing my central point in my replies, as I did in the first paragraph of this post, but it never works. None of you have addressed it.
Shame that TheRPGSite seems to have taken a hard turn toward tribalism in the last couple months.