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Or....stop defining everything as left/right and make things for people. Stop the divide, it's what 'they' want.
That is just not how it works. I wish it was, but someone will always make literally whatever political
As long as money can control politics it will. Post scarcity might fix it someday, but so many things have to happen before then—that will disadvantage vested interests—that it’s hard to imagine humanity making it there.
Need to get rid of first past the post voting. It incentives two polarized parties. Maybe ranked choice instead?
Online, there's always this division and blame on either the left or right. In my real life experience amongst friends, people are more willing to have a normal conversation about different opinions without all the outrage like I see online.
Definitely not my experience. I live in a “blue” area but …. A friend up north gets worked up about vaccines, and his wife runs a daycare! He’s educated and intelligent but has entirely off-base assumptions. My brother in the Midwest works for a car manufacturer …. still thinks electric vehicles are a fad that don’t work and never will. “Look around you” does not compute because it’s “just Tesla” and everyone knows they have poor uplift and loosing tons of money and only survisipve on government handouts
Well the unfortunate part of that is it isn't working and a solid 30% of the population will just call you 'woke' and ignore you for saying it.
Was that an us-and-them argument against us-and-them arguments?
You're sending some conflicting signals, my Mac
Companies are not people, so no...I'm not.
Political agendas are also not human, so again I'm still not.
You're one of those that love to cause divide.
That sounds nice but, much like the name for these bills, it's not reality.
Who’s they?