• @[email protected]
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        010 months ago

        Both sides clearly want to say the most extremist strawmans of the other side to rile up support and increase animosity towards the other side.

        • FeminalPanda
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          110 months ago

          Yea, the far left of universal health care and diversity. Which has never been in power, unlike the far right.

          • @[email protected]
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            10 months ago

            Really? You turn this into a mis-characterization of the left? My point is that there are equally radically Twitter claims from the right. For instance, you don’t think there are Republican-voting individuals who think Democrats are coming for all their guns?

            • FeminalPanda
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              110 months ago

              I do, but that’s not the far left, that’s the liberals. You go actual left and you keep your guns to protect yourself from the right wing lynch mobs that is ant the gays to die.

      • @Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug
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        I love how every response to calling out the tribal shit slinging hyperbolic strawman is “okay so what do they believe” completely missing thr point and side stepping it just to do more tribal shit slinging.

        • FeminalPanda
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          010 months ago

          How is it tribal to know what you stand for or what you think someone stands for?

          • @Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug
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            010 months ago

            Because it’s obvious what the user asking for this wants is to know if the other commenter thinks differently, they wants a reason to attack them and belittle them. That is all that’s been happening in this thread.

            • FeminalPanda
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              110 months ago

              I want to know what they think. I want to see how they view what the Republicans and Democrats are doing. I can easily say what I think they are doing and how they are not the same, so I want to know what makes them think they are the same.

              • @[email protected]
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                010 months ago

                This is exactly the problem. When you say that you want to ask these questions just to find out what ‘the other side’ thinks, you are treating the conversation as if the other person is a member of ‘the other side’ and can speak for their viewpoints. There can be people who disagree with you that aren’t far-right religious extremists.

    • @[email protected]
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      310 months ago

      Right, surely the people who keep doing horrible things and announcing plans to do more horrible are only unpopular with everyone else because of tribalism. Couldn’t possibly be their actions.