DefinitelyNotMikePence
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The systematic shut down of opposing political views by the left is how people like trump get into power.
Jan 23, 2017 5:10 PM
DefinitelyNotMikePence
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The systematic shut down of opposing political views by the left is how people like trump get into power.
Gasquatch
It's never as good as it seems and it's never as bad as it seems. despite what the media is telling us
Panda4hire
No one talks to one another they just get angry.
BavarianBarbarian
If i want a proper battle of minds i go visit my conservative pals (european conservative not US).
GapingAnalCavity
There are nutbags on both sides. The left just seems to have the greater share of nuts this time. During the Bush years it was the opposite.
gregclark1
Yes definitely this. I have been a member of the British Labour Party for ten year but have left because of how intolerant they've become.
theallknowingrealamerican
Most discussion I have with right wingers. It's all the democrats fault. Btw - I think you're presenting alternative facts
DefinitelyNotMikePence
*By right wing I mean proper fiscal conservatives
boneh3ad
Where are you finding these right wingers? I can't find anyone on either side willing to actually discuss.
icepeakenja
I can so relate to this
Raglefant
And I'm a pretty swedish person
PoopFrosting
i have pretty good political discussions with my dog. i ask his opinion and he eats his own butthole, and frankly i agree.
DoomSkuller
That's basically all what politics are anymore.
MarvinTheManicDepressiveRobot
whydoidothisallday
Dog's asshole / squeaky toy '20?
xenburnn
get better at talking? I don't know where people find these types of people. Even at college the squawking idiots are a minority. It's 1/2
xenburnn
impossible talking to "true believers" who have taken politics as religion and identity regardless of position on the political spectrum
SwarthyPirateLove
Bc the polictical system is circular and if you go far enough in one direction you get closer to the other side
leavinit
https://www.politicalcompass.org/analysis2
Gasquatch
The is the best comment on here +1
SwarthyPirateLove
Thanks my husband taught me that
JohnnieIII
Seriously though I find the people I argue with who are liberal in general have no idea what they're talking about and refuse to admit it
theallknowingrealamerican
Well maybe it's because you use alternative facts
PapaSloth
Pretty likely that they're not watching the same "news" as you are, and the "facts" you believe are different as a result.
PapaSloth
For example, you probably think there was a child porn ring operating out of a Washington Pizza Parlor, and your "liberal" friends are 1/2
PapaSloth
all ignorant and in denial because they don't know about it. 2/2
PapaSloth
Blaming the left for Trump is like blaming the gun when you blow your own brains out. Take some responsibility.
UrKungFuNoGood
maybe if the left leadership quit bashing people from dumbfuckistan we wouldn't be having this conversation.
DefinitelyNotMikePence
Canadian, so not my fault
venomlash
Ohhh, no WONDER you think there are sane reasonable conservatives out there.
DefinitelyNotMikePence
Uep
PapaSloth
Main point still holds.
DefinitelyNotMikePence
No it doesn't, I claim no responsibility, I'm a left leaning Canadian
whydoidothisallday
What right wingers are you talking to? The only ones I encounter talk about Obama being the worst president in the history like its a fact
DefinitelyNotMikePence
I'm talking about proper fiscal conservatives.
whydoidothisallday
yeah, do you yell at them for letting their party become what it currently is?
CaptainObvious3000
Both parties are a shit show
TheDuke0fHazzard
Most of us didn't even vote to nominate Trump, though
whydoidothisallday
Then how did he get elected? Why would your party pick a few whackos to run against him?
TheDuke0fHazzard
I was a big Rand Paul supporter, then Cruz after Paul dropped out. The majority vote was split between Cruz and Kasich.
Chereazi
So you didn't get the "millions of illegal immigrants voted" and "of course mexico will pay the wall" ones then? Lucky you.
HeyGuysAmIRelevantYet
I usually just get the 'whatever libtard get a job' or my favorite, as a legal immigrant, 'go back to where you belong'.
Porthos542
My favorite is "they're stealing our jobs"
HeyGuysAmIRelevantYet
I love that. Fuck I wish I knew how to steal jobs. If I get a job I'm deported. How the fuck is it done?
LivingLikeLarrry
Why would you be deported for getting a job if your a legal immigrant?
LivingLikeLarrry
Why would you be deported for getting a job if your a legal immigrant?
HeyGuysAmIRelevantYet
Don't have a green card yet. Here legally and not leaving but still in the process