thehunter said:
Do you guys ever take an objective look at yourselves, how you look and how you sound?
|
No one is objective in the first place. We all have biases.
It's also my personal subjective belief that the people who think of themselves as "being the objective ones" tend to be less objective. Because they tend to be certain that they're correct about everything, whereas other people tend to have enough uncertainty that they're more willing to listen to people that are more knowledgeable about a subject.
thehunter said:
I'm not expecting most people these days to know enough US history to see how ridiculous your summary of the Civil War was
|
And what exactly do you think the cause of the Civil War was?
The "State's rights" claim is problematic for a lot of reasons. The states wrote secession letters, and specifically mentioned slavery as the big issue. You can certainly argue that other factors might have contributed, but seeing as the very people who seceded literally went into great detail about slavery being such a big issue for them, it feels dishonest to argue that you must actually know what they were fighting for in the first place.
I don't even think people generally care that much about state's rights in the first place. It's just a convenient stopping spot against people that disagree with you. Right now, X issue doesn't have enough support for it to happen nationally, but we can have in these particular states until it's popular enough. Abortion was claimed to be a state's rights issue, but plenty of politicians are overriding what their own people voted for, and plenty of them are suddenly emboldened enough to start talking about a nationwide ban.
thehunter said:
but have someone in your family who doesn't see eye-to-eye with you review your posts and offer constructive criticism once and a while.
How I would long to have an intelligent discussion with your movement about the pros and cons of this decade's US leadership
|
To have an intelligent discussion with someone, you'd need to be able to respond to some of their rebuttals. Which you haven't ever done here.
3 people responded to your first overly simple post about how you think it's absurd that dictators would cut funding (even though largely the funding was cut for things that help other people.) And you didn't even bother to address a single one of them.
Last edited by the-pi-guy - on 13 June 2025