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I believe that tweet was intended as comedy.
by floren 5y ago
I believe that tweet was intended as comedy.
- vmception 5y agoMany people believe the caricatures Ask any politically independent or moderate person, and they can tell you everyone else only sees caricatures of the other side
- happytoexplain 5y agoIs "most people with X politics only sees caricatures" not a caricature? Generalizing about one's political enemies is the pastime of all people, including "moderates".
- vmception 5y agoI would more greatly weigh the learned experiences of people who actually talk to the other side
- kongin 5y agoTo go full Godwin: I don't care that the majority of Germans have fulfilling spiritual lives and don't believe everything the Nazi party says. I care that enough of them have decided to invade Poland and kill every one there.
- mkr-hn 5y agoThe notion that there are sides and not a web of gradients is built on caricatures. It's the same kind of thinking that makes people believe the color painted over a state on the news tells you anything about an individual there.
- guerrilla 5y agoThe notion that there are sides and not a web of gradients (in the US) is built on polls. The real mystery I want an answer to is why the country us split 50/50 on almost everything.
- ethbr0 5y agoThe nature of democracy. There's a strong selection bias for positions which attract more votes. Ergo, all parties continually optimize their positions, and apparently meet at a boundary that's usually about half the elective.
- guerrilla 5y ago> The nature of democracy. Not really. There are basically no countries in Europe with a 50/50 split. > There's a strong selection bias for positions which attract more votes Again, no, not really in Europe with proportional representation or similar systems.
- ethbr0 5y ago* Winner take all democracy If 50+1 wasn't the magic number, it makes sense you'd see parties optimizing for other things.
- mkr-hn 5y agoEven a very well-designed poll has limited resolution on an individual's views.
- jjk166 5y agoWe're only split 50/50 on issues, and things are issues because we are split 50/50. If a large majority of people agree on both what to do and how to do it, we just do that. You don't exactly need a poll for "issues" like should we legalize necrophilia or should we go to war with Australia.
- FooBarBizBazz 5y ago> The real mystery I want an answer to is why the country us split 50/50 on almost everything. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law
- drdec 5y agoIt might not be true, but it is so revealing of the mindset of people who think that way.
- zizee 5y ago> It might not be true, but it is so revealing of the mindset of people who think that way. Is this sarcasm/irony? Or are you doing precisely what this post talks about? Or perhaps I am parsing your words incorrectly? The CS Lewis quote from the article: > Wishing that black was blacker, conviction that false stories reveal deep truths about opponents
- alasdair_ 5y agoThe definition of the word “irony” should simply be a link to your comment.
- RickJWagner 5y agoReminds me of the rush to condemn the Covington High school students who were accused of harassing the Native American. (As it turns out, the Native American was at fault.) Hordes of enraged, under-informed snowflakes took to the internet to bully the kids. Not very many apologies afterward. Especially repulsive are the Hollywood light-thinkers and politicians who were duped. Imagine how the kids felt, having celebrities and politicians talk about them that way.
- munificent 5y agoWe live in a post-irony world where any utterance may be claimed to mean what it says or its exact inverse as the situation or changing winds of culture causes its author to see fit.
- kongin 5y agohttps://twitter.com/Hbomberguy https://twitter.com/Hbomberguy You can just check. It's not typing a name into google is difficult.