• TheLurker@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I mean if a woman wants to marry a person who is a Trump supporter, then while I question her sanity… Okay I guess? 🤷‍♂️

    But this idea that women are not marrying Trump supporters because of “social pressure” just sounds to me like another of the long line of “women are weak and can’t make their own decisions” arguments.

    But then again what can you expect from conservatives who can only think in terms of binaries?

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      But then again what can you expect from conservatives who can only think in terms of binaries?

      The irony in this statement is subtle but quite delightful.

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          I think I should have stated “whom” to remove the qualifier ambiguity.

          I hate using whom but in this case it was probably needed.

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        11 months ago

        Because I would only support religious education if it adhered to my viewpoint while claiming conservatives can only see binary viewpoints?

        Or because I have a binary view point of conservatives while at the same time levelling this against them?

        Both are ironic in some sense.

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            Conservatives are a monolith. If you don’t fall in line and do what the party wants, they attack you, primary you, and cast you out.

            This is how the Nazis got regular people to commit to atrocities.

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              Tell me you’ve never spent any time around conservatives without telling me you’ve never spent any time around conservatives.

              No, your immediate family doesn’t count.

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            However I would counter with the point that those with a binary view point must be debated in like.

            How can I debate the grey with a person who cannot see it?

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                Winning a debate should not be the goal. It should be to progress disclosure and help finding some resemblance of “truth”.

                Hence why I asked which of the two possible ironic statements I made you were asking about.

                I’m wrong all the time. But discourse helps us all to learn.