The dissolution of civility and decency in American politics make perfect sense once you realize that what is driving pretty much everyone is:
“I really hate The Bad People. If there were less of The Bad People everything would be better”
@WitnessVoid47@sleepy_devo When are you going to grow up, and stop letting your life be defined by media?
Whatever a video game, movie or tv show consist of. Whatever its message or intention, if it causes you to have meltdowns on social media, you are a child.
@opendoorforever@Pellegrinoadict The point is that there’s a fair amount of people who aren’t. And you have no way of knowing who is who.
This is precisely why “judge not lest ye be judged” is a thing.
@opendoorforever@Pellegrinoadict Over the last 50 years, there have been endless accounts from abortion clinic workers who have reported a person standing on the protest lines one day and coming inside for the procedure the next.
The point isn’t that “no one” exists that is ethically consistent on this
@AIPAChunter@BostonMassUSA For every single blue hair that meets every stereotype you can name about them, there’s way more that really do just want to live their own damn lives just like you.
Stop being a cunt. Talk to people that aren’t you. Sometimes, they’re worth it
@AIPAChunter@BostonMassUSA And yeah, I know there’s tons of people out there making up fan fiction in their heads about you, too.
If there’s anything wrong with the culture in our states, it’s that we spend too much damn time building up straw man enemies of the people around us.
@Fair_and_Biased@christopheryuan Is that not just the natural end point of where Martin Luther started?
I’m not a Catholic, I don’t have a dog in this fight. Just sayin’, if you’re gonna pick and choose who gets to be Christians, it’s really funny to me that you do it from schism in the first place.
@Emmatationn@ContraPoints “This life path scares me and I’m afraid for you”
That is how she could express her reservations with love.
“You are dead to me” is what you say when you view your child as an extension of yourself, rather than another fully separate human being.
@Emmatationn@ContraPoints When you love someone, you take them as they are. Not how you wish they were.
She can feel however she needs to feel, and believe whatever she needs to believe. But the type of “love” you are describing does not look like this.
That type of love says “I’m worried about you”
@EudaimoniaEsq It’s better to take the charitable position, for as they are with death, you don’t know and can’t know what’s actually in their hearts and minds.
Though, you are probably right
@RefinedPopulist While I don’t say this to defend the notion you are quoting, necessarily, it is a mistake to make any kind of prediction based on so small a time span.
The arc of history is rightly measured in centuries.
@PTBwrites@servetus The greatest mistake of the progressive movement was not finding rights acceptable. If you are on equal footing with your neighbor in terms of the law, then good. He is free to find you immoral.
If you are decent and normal you may change his mind.