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Taking a trip through Georgia, someone actually paid for this.


Taking a trip through Georgia, someone actually paid for this.



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  • Solidus-Prime

    I really ***truly*** believe that irony is a higher-brain concept that Righties simply ***cannot*** grasp. When you tell them this is ironic, they don’t know what you actually mean, but know you are saying something “mean” about them, and react based on that emotional response.

  • orionsfyre

    I’m beginning to believe that constructive dialogue with people of diametrically opposed views is becoming essentially impossible in our country anymore.

    We used to start from the same basic facts and ideas when we had public debates discussions. But now the sides are becoming so extreme that simply agreeing to talk is becoming impossible. The common refrain is: “How do you reason with people who conflate your entire existence with either Communism or Nazism.”

    One side is kinda just done with democracy, convinced everything is a conspiracy, and angry at anything they are told to be angry about, and unable to accept that society is changing outside of their ability to control it. The other has zero desire to accept imperfections of other human beings and demanding everything change essentially instantly without any consideration for how insanely difficult change is, while also rightly freaking about our changing climate.

    If you visit communities like r/conservative or r/politics you find people not only in different worlds, but different realities. While I feel one has a firmer grip on the real then the other, it’s increasingly disturbing just how out of touch and madly divergent we’ve become. Sure reddit is just where the most vocal of folks go, but it’s still a pretty good sample of the divide.

    How do you reason with people who are convinced you are the devil before you even begin to talk? How do you compromise with people you can’t even bring yourself to respect as other human beings?

    What sort of grim future are we marching towards in the silo’s of increasingly extreme positions?

    ***The answer cannot be forced compliance and the end of free speech like Russia or China.*** But it cannot be the tribalist abandonment of reason and debate like we are seeing in the West. So what is it?

  • Thats_GhostFace

    “Don’t believe propaganda! Believe MY billboard pushing the narrative that a man who’s served the government his entire adult life waited until he was nearly senile to begin his plot for world domination!”

  • _PirateWench_

    OMG Biden looks like John McCain to me! If I was driving by that is exactly the 1st person I would think it was and be a little confused as to why they’re putting a dead guy in blast…

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