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Re:The app that lets you pay to control another person's life by jimmygrapes on Monday May 17, 2021 @08:14PM (#27189905)
Don't wanna get into political shit flinging but the fact that you equate positive and progressive is telling. From my own (as-yet unpublished) research, one of the most common questions when queried about the term "progressive" is (paraphrased): "until what end?"

Answer that explicitly (without changing the language used by the opposition) and you might make more, um, progress.

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Re:The app that lets you pay to control another person's life by lucideer on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @04:54AM (#27192523)
It's all subjective if course, but I didn't equate them, I added the word "positive" as a qualifier in the hope the extra adjective would help disambiguation.

Of course not all progress is positive so I was narrowing the scope of the word to limit it to only progressive initiatives that benefit a majority of constituents (in particular, in this example, an absent majority)

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Re:The app that lets you pay to control another person's life by nitrogen on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @01:12AM (#27191455)
"until what end?"

A very useful question. In any disagreement, it's important to answer both "What would change my mind?" and "How will I know I am done/have won?"

Without answers to both of those, it is difficult to win over anyone who doesn't already agree. The first question shows that one is acting in informed good faith. The second lets people know exactly what they are being asked to agree with.

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