We have to be the change we want to see

“Opinions are like arseholes”, but when you’ve seen 1,000 very similar arseholes you’re probably going to want to see some different ones.

It’s emotional times so I understand that rationality ends up taking a back seat in the mind. I hope you’re right!

The moderate right provide a platform for the far right but I don’t think that makes them default Nazi’s.

Besides that, I’m not suggesting that you can always deprogram a Nazi, but you can absolutely target the moderate right swing voters who may not take kindly to being called a Nazi.

Honestly, your point of view is no better than the “all Muslims are terrorists” mantra and people like you will sleep walk us in to another four years of Republican rule.

Great comment. Trump won and the amount of people here throwing the Nazi word around still don’t realise how self defeating they are.

You can’t tell someone their an idiot or evil and then expect them to try seeing things your way, you’re much more likely to end up entrenching their beliefs. The goal should be to win them over, that won’t be accomplished by telling them how wrong and stupid they are.

Engage, don’t alienate, no matter how hard that feels at times.

I’d be getting bored if it was an echo chamber of any flavour.

As I’ve said in other comments, I’m here to learn and part of that means exposing myself to people that do not think alike to me. I’m not hear to circle jerk about how right we are, maybe that was fun the first few thousand times, it’s just boring now.

Ideally I’d like to get involved with a broad spectrum of people that somewhat represent the society that we live in.

Maybe I should just get offline and go to the pub.

It’s extremely big headed to think that only the people who agree with you are arguing honestly and have not based their arguments on any incorrect information.

I’m here to learn and grow, not to circle jerk with my friends about how right we are.

In the UK there is some similarity between liberal and left wing ideas, despite them being distinct political groups. Liberalism was originally seen as very left wing, a lot of people are now arguing that there is more in common with right wing politics, small state and such.

I’d say my experience here has been much more left wing than liberal though, just my opinion.

This is kind of the derision that I’m talking about. (I am assuming that you are talking about the right wing). Whilst there is some truth to it, you disagreeing with them or their arguments doesn’t mean that it isn’t interesting, or worthy of discussion or debate.

I do agree that hate speech should be banned and that isn’t what I’m interested in.

I’m not interested in the MAGA point of view per se, I’m interested in a diverse spectrum of ideas and opinions that reflect a real cross section of society, where undoubtedly some of them will be MAGA people. Whereas there is a very strong left leaning bias here.

Thanks for this. Will definitely check out those instances.

But I want Google to stick it to bad orange man, Google should represent me not official data, Google is a Nazi company!!! 😭😭😭

Whilst I see where you’re coming from, is there literally anything for Google to gain by being a stick in the mud over the issue? It’ll probably get changed back in a few years time.

The redness in your cheeks when cold is due to increased blood flow trying to keep your skin warm, I take it that they return to normal when you warm up? I don’t think a specific moisturizer can really help with this.

You could try a balaclava if your red cheeks are really bothering you.

Wow, that’s quite something! You may have possibly noticed other benefits though? Maybe being less short of breath, your back is less sore, maybe a lower blood pressure or cholesterol at a medical? There’s many things you can notice other than your appearance in a mirror.

40lbs is a great achievement and I hope you didn’t find it to be an absolutely pointless exercise.

The first day you lift is the day you realise that you’ll never be able to lift enough!

It’ll take a month for you to notice an improvement, about three months for other people to notice.

Remember, it’s not the exercise that’s hard, the hard bit is sticking with your routine.

I’ll boycott companies.

Something being technically legal doesn’t necessarily make it moral or OK and whilst I absolutely agree that laws and regulations should be in place to prevent horrible behaviour, it’s not reasonable to expect this in every case.

I’ll absolutely make a decision to withdraw my custom if I don’t agree that a company is acting appropriately, it’s the only power you have as a consumer and the only thing companies care about is getting your money.

Come on, join the “everyone that disagrees with us is a Nazi movement!” /s

I quite literally said “not Nazi”, but I guess that in pigeon chess, you make up the rules of engagement.

You can say I’m acting in bad faith, that’s your opinion that you are entitled to, I’m telling you I’m not.

The reality of the situation is that you simply disagree with my opinion but you’ve chosen to attack me rather than the substance of what I’m saying. It’s called an ad hominem.