Preventing extreme polarization of political attitudes

Re:Preventing extreme polarization of political attitudes by edmcnulty101 on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @12:31PM (#29554427)

The gish gallop of the person I was responding too, of numerous paragraphs and links, took time out of my life to parse... and turned out to be a SINGLE PERSON found with a gun on capitol grounds not even in the capitol.

It's as disengenous, demonizing of a group, and sensational as it gets.

This poster is also using the same single person as their data point for the motivations of the entire group of protesters.

This is a good example of the type of discourse social media allows by making all arguments equal no matter how accurate the argument is.

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Re:Preventing extreme polarization of political attitudes by ShamelessC on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @12:35PM (#29554472)

No one forced you to fact check them and you still seem like you're a bit too frustrated to have a pleasant debate with. It seems if there's one thing we agree on, it's that social media encourages divisiveness. Consider taking some time away from commenting - this is my go-to strategy when I'm hot-headed.

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Re:Preventing extreme polarization of political attitudes by edmcnulty101 on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @01:05PM (#29554951)

I'm very pleasant to people who don't discuss things with disengenuous, statistically inaccurate, sensationalist intentions, meant to further an ideological narrative.

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Re:Preventing extreme polarization of political attitudes by ShamelessC on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @01:55PM (#29555721)

Again, no one forced you to talk to that person. If you don't have anything constructive _and_ pleasant to say, then please wait for your mood to simmer before commenting.

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Re:Preventing extreme polarization of political attitudes by edmcnulty101 on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @03:15PM (#29556922)

Aw great! Thanks for the tip! I'll definitely keep that in mind!

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Re:Preventing extreme polarization of political attitudes by DarylZero on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @10:37AM (#29567370)

They were all allowed to leave the capitol building without being arrested. There wasn't the police manpower to arrest them. No one was arrested inside the capitol building.

If the lack of arrests inside the building prove there were no guns -- it proves there were no people, either.

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Re:Preventing extreme polarization of political attitudes by edmcnulty101 on Friday December 17, 2021 @12:44AM (#29588306)

Hm not even a camera recording of a gun? Something?

The protestors did poop on the walls.

That's insurrection of lunch thinking about it.

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Re:Preventing extreme polarization of political attitudes by DarylZero on Friday December 17, 2021 @04:54AM (#29590040)

No one said there wasn't a camera recording of a gun.

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