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Re:Employees are leaving Facebook and torching the company i... by throwaway894345 on Friday December 11, 2020 @02:43PM (#25389947)
I take your broader point, but I don't think it's 50/50 as much as it is a vocal 10% on either side with the majority remaining pretty moderate and reasonable. I don't personally cross the divide, I'm a political liberal (earning me the 'socialist' brand from the right) but I don't dabble in the tribalism and try to be charitable toward those I disagree with (thus I'm a nazi to the 10% on the far left) but there's still a huge swath of people in the middle.
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Re:Employees are leaving Facebook and torching the company i... by BLKNSLVR on Friday December 11, 2020 @02:59PM (#25390173)
Very interesting that the text of your entirely non-aggressive, non-partisan point of view was "more grey than black".

Keep up the charitable liberalism I say.

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Re:Employees are leaving Facebook and torching the company i... by Yeroc on Friday December 11, 2020 @03:43PM (#25390712)
I think one of the issues (beyond media's propensity towards sensationalism to draw attention) is that the extremes at either end of a debate are very black and white. Black and white can be explained in a single sentence many times but everything in between is nuanced (or grey as you called it). The problem with nuanced positions is it requires more than a 280 character payload to explain...
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Re:Employees are leaving Facebook and torching the company i... by throwaway894345 on Friday December 11, 2020 @04:03PM (#25390945)
I think the bigger problem is that nuanced positions don't sell as well as sensationalism. Outrage is a powerful drug and the media has us hooked on it.
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