• 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      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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        1 year ago

        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.

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              1 year ago

              You must have to make new accounts on the regular with that 18 hour old account.

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                You might say I have a talent for going straight where it hurts.

                “The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.” — Oscar Wilde

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                  Of course you don’t, because you probably also consider your own genius misunderstood and therefore you have to punish everyone who’s trying to claim theirs.