• Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
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    Dispassionate takes on controversial issues.

    There’s always atleast two sides to each story and more often than not the truth is somewhere in the middle. If you think something is clear-cut you’re almost guranteed to be mistaken and misinformed and many of your dearest beliefs are totally wrong.

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      I think social media, particularly Twitter, has bred this. Twitter is designed in a way that makes it impossible to have an actual structured debate and instead encourages short and unambiguous statements which cannot possibly accurately encapsulate an issue

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        encourages short and unambiguous statements which cannot possibly accurately encapsulate an issue

        Conservatives in a nutshell. (I’ll add the /s here for anyone not getting the joke that I’m doing the exact thing we’re talking about)

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          I needed that /s, lol.

          Because isn’t that literally what conservatives do? Pick wedge issues then make quick soundbites about “common sense” “solutions” that align with simple black & white thinking and conservative values?

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      I’ve taken to letting people know my opinion that if they are omicient they are wasting their talent arguing about piddly topics with subjectives like myself

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      Dispassionate? Could there be a better word? I think I know and agree with what your saying but I don’t think that’s the correct word.