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They probably (seriously) feel the same way about you. The solution is to stop demonizing and dehumanizing your political opposition and be okay with difference

by aksss 4y ago

They probably (seriously) feel the same way about you. The solution is to stop demonizing and dehumanizing your political opposition and be okay with difference of opinion while communicating. Also recognize it's a tired game of both ends of the political spectrum to convince people the other side is full of monsters who want to destroy them. Look at wartime propaganda. There's plenty of room to disagree with each other and be passionate about our convictions without involving that element. If your response is, "no but really..", start reading from the top again.

kstrauser 4y ago
This is all off-topic, but that's a ridiculous take. I'm a straight white guy. Literally no one is seriously proposing laws that would make my life more difficult in the slightest. No one is trying to make it illegal for me to be married to my wife, or to use the right bathroom, or to tell my kids it's OK for them to be straight. There's no legitimate "but both sides...!" here.
- coldtea 4y ago
  >This is all off-topic, but that's a ridiculous take. I'm a straight white guy. Literally no one is seriously proposing laws that would make my life more difficult in the slightest. Except if you're working class, then all bets are off. People can laugh at you, dismiss you as white trash, kill your livelihood and tell you to "learn to code" when businesses still getting huge tax cuts "outsource", and your local jobs die, and so on.
  - kstrauser 4y ago
    One party is trying to give the working class free education and healthcare. The other has abandoned them. My point still holds.
    - bitwize 4y ago
      "Me? I'm giving away free money! And where is the Batman? He's at home, washing his tights!"
    - aksss 4y ago
      Everyone has a toilet paper tube they can view the world through to save themselves from understanding alternate points of view. I'm sure that's all that "one party" is trying to do, right? Nothing else remotely objectionable. The fact that anyone would disagree must mean they're insane, stupid, or.. a monster!
- aksss 4y ago
  > there's no legitimate "but both sides...!" here. Again, start from the top.
lapcat 4y ago
> They probably (seriously) feel the same way about you. If that's seriously true, then there's even less reason to consider this "a little thing called fun." > Look at wartime propaganda. Whether or not wartime propaganda is justified, war is not "a little thing called fun."
Clent 4y ago
Are you serious? LGBTQ+ are real people being dehumanized by MAGA's. MAGA's are not good people, regardless of how scared they maybe of others. Their fear makes them dangerous as they lack the emotional intelligence required to allow others to exist without their approval. Also, they are often well armed and have bene involved in many mass shootings.

by aksss 4y ago

kstrauser 4y ago

This is all off-topic, but that's a ridiculous take. I'm a straight white guy. Literally no one is seriously proposing laws that would make my life more difficult in the slightest. No one is trying to make it illegal for me to be married to my wife, or to use the right bathroom, or to tell my kids it's OK for them to be straight. There's no legitimate "but both sides...!" here.

coldtea 4y ago
>This is all off-topic, but that's a ridiculous take. I'm a straight white guy. Literally no one is seriously proposing laws that would make my life more difficult in the slightest. Except if you're working class, then all bets are off. People can laugh at you, dismiss you as white trash, kill your livelihood and tell you to "learn to code" when businesses still getting huge tax cuts "outsource", and your local jobs die, and so on.
- kstrauser 4y ago
  One party is trying to give the working class free education and healthcare. The other has abandoned them. My point still holds.
  - bitwize 4y ago
    "Me? I'm giving away free money! And where is the Batman? He's at home, washing his tights!"
  - aksss 4y ago
    Everyone has a toilet paper tube they can view the world through to save themselves from understanding alternate points of view. I'm sure that's all that "one party" is trying to do, right? Nothing else remotely objectionable. The fact that anyone would disagree must mean they're insane, stupid, or.. a monster!
aksss 4y ago
> there's no legitimate "but both sides...!" here. Again, start from the top.

lapcat 4y ago

> They probably (seriously) feel the same way about you. If that's seriously true, then there's even less reason to consider this "a little thing called fun." > Look at wartime propaganda. Whether or not wartime propaganda is justified, war is not "a little thing called fun."

Clent 4y ago

Are you serious? LGBTQ+ are real people being dehumanized by MAGA's. MAGA's are not good people, regardless of how scared they maybe of others. Their fear makes them dangerous as they lack the emotional intelligence required to allow others to exist without their approval. Also, they are often well armed and have bene involved in many mass shootings.