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Re:Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided ... by ABCLAW on Sunday November 08, 2020 @03:06AM (#25024022)
>People on the left think that anyone on the right is a lunatic, and everyone on the right thinks the same thing about the left.

I firmly disagree. Not all political climates and discourses are as poisoned as they are in the US.

That said, not all political disagreements are created equally. We can have a rousing polite disagreement about immigration levels, national financial priorities, cultural values and so on, but if the discussion is premised in a fundamental disagreement about whether or not certain people deserve dignity as human beings then there's very little common ground to build off of.

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Re:Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided ... by amanaplanacanal on Sunday November 08, 2020 @10:04AM (#25026181)
I’m fairly lefty, and used to have quite a a bit of respect for the right, since I am at heart a bit of a libertarian. I’ve lost quite a bit of it though after seeing how so many of them lined up to support sometime so obviously amoral as the current President.
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