(11-06-2024, 11:30 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(11-06-2024, 11:21 PM)JagFan81 Wrote: Your exactly right. And with social media allowing you to block out any opinion different to your own and endlessly talking about how terrible whatever Trump has done is, they rile each other up. Obviously this isn't just limited to the left but it just undermines arguments and criticism when that's all that happens, especially when there's something genuine to be unhappy about.

I'm watching another unfriending cycle play out on Facebook.  Smaller scale than the last two, thankfully.  I guess most everyone's already been sorted by now.  Sad!

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Yeah that's sad and the person initiating it doesn't realize they're a bigger part of the problem than whatever they think they're fighting against.  One of my wife's cousins who I've never met and we have no real life interaction with and I don't believe knows our politics so I'm not taking it personal posted on Facebook the morning of the election that "any of her friends or even family who are Trump supporters can unfriend her now because of yadda yadda yadda".  By contrast, I think her way of thinking is dangerously wrong politically speaking, but I respect her right to arrive at different conclusions and I respect my right to change my mind in the future and I never feel the need or desire to agitate someone into an altercation or to get into an uninvited persuasive argument with them.  The left seems much quicker to do these types of things and less willing to respect differences of opinion though I realize they don't have a monopoly on that.

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