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Independent thinker valuing discussions grounded in reason, not emotions.

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How is that even remotely equivalent comparison?

I don't think it's that they don't listen to anyone. People generally are open to hear different views as long as it's done in good faith rather that in the form of accusations. Nobody wants to hear from someone who openly treats them as second class citizens. If you treat them with dignity and are open to hear their views as well you're far more likely to get them to reflect on their own views too. Daryl Davis is a good example of this.

Any vending machine can be hacked. We used to get free sodas from one twenty years ago.

Well I mean you can go around calling them fascists all you want. That already got you Trump twice but maybe 3rd time is the charm.

No one is more confused about reality than the ones claiming to know "the truth" Some even name their social media platforms like that.

Do you think they're going to accept that he is one when the accusation is coming from someone on the left? I doubt it.

I don't think that calling someone a pedophile is any more convincing than calling them a nazi. If anything, that'll just make them dig their heels deeper.

I've been on both for over a decade longer than on Lemmy.

You literally cannot come closer to having your brains blown out and live to tell the tale. To downplay that as if it wasn't a big deal is ridiculous and unreasonable.

Like it now does based on false claims made by humans

I'm not sure space mining is what causes asteroids. Dinosaurs didn't have a space program to my knowledge.

If you know it's false, it's called disinformation.

I have a good friend like this. He says quite extreme things like that from time to time. I don't attack him for it. Instead we talk about it. I ask him questions, share my view on the matter etc. more often than not he then walks back what he said and openly admits that he shouldn't generalize and understands that the few bad apples he has had to deal with don't represent the majority.

People change. I did too. I used to say horrible things about gay people myself too when I was younger. Then I grew up and realized I'd actually like to have some of that dick too.

Your friend on the other hand probably only holds down to those beliefs even stronger now because of how you reacted. These are the people who vote for Trump to "screw with the libs"

Idk one side wants to enslave, murder, and rape. The other does not.

Seeing people hold this kind of views is fucking depressing.

fanatics

Half of Lemmy users included in that group

He did literally get shot though.

When Q-Anon spreads baseless pedophile ring accusations it's ridiculed but apparently doing the exact same thing for their side is fair game. Great display of double standards yet again.

One side has empathy. The other does not.

You generalized as if everyone on the left has empathy and no one on the right does. That’s simply not true. Group differences like this are often larger within the group than between them. While it might be true that, on average, people on the right are less empathetic than those on the left, it’s neither fair nor accurate to imply that one side has empathy and the other doesn’t.

The world is not binary like that. Your side is not all good and the other side is not all bad.