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I guess some people have an inherent inability to adopt some kind of middle ground stance. It's either exponential growth forever and colonizing Mars or "why d

I guess some people have an inherent inability to adopt some kind of middle ground stance. It's either exponential growth forever and colonizing Mars or "why do you want to drag us back to the caves". Having a conversation for the 1000th time with such people who don't recognize nuance is very tiresome and not worth it.

api 3y ago
Social media does not promote middle ground because that doesn't maximize engagement. Everything must be maximally divisive, maximally triggering, and compressible into <200 characters.
- zzzzzzzza 3y ago
  maybe politics is a support vector machine and the division is the hyperplane XD
  - uoaei 3y ago
    Kind of, yes. All politics is arbitrary line-drawing. There's a bit more to it in that the lines are contextually dependent on what exactly is being politicked about and usually not static.
notpachet 3y ago
> I guess some people have an inherent inability to adopt some kind of middle ground stance Try "almost all people". People crave certainty.