Also, get outside and off the internet. Go for a hike. Spend time with your family. Teach your children to whittle or hunt. Build something. Read a book. Then come back and check in.
There's too many people desperately F5ing just hoping that all the court cases are gonna skip ahead several weeks. Source: Have been refreshing a lot recently.
Echo chambers exist on both the left and the right. Rational, dispassioned discussion is impossible on either. This uncompromising partisanship by radicals on both sides hurts the majority of people who don't let politics take over their lives. I am now censored here as I was on reddit. So I just stop participating.
So purge doubters and moderates and then wonder why so many allies desert you. I cannot villainize all those who disagree with me. Now I am left with disgust at both sides.
Signal and Noise. Propaganda and Discussion. Purges and Disillusionment.
Don't let the general immaturity and borderline fanaticism by some of those here in T_D get you down... there are plenty of good people here too. Maybe even a majority. It's just that - as usual - the loudest voices are the most radical.
The OP is a prime example of everything wrong with T_D. Mindless cheerleading, purity tests and gatekeeping have no place in rational discussion.
Cheerleading has its place. Polemic has real value. If that's all we have, though, it is crap.
I just got off the phone with my father-in-law from Ohio, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Joe Biden, even down to the crankiness of declining mental acuity. He can't stand Donald Trump on a visceral level. He can barely stand me, but I am family and his daughter loves me and our kids (his grandkids) are fruit that prove the adequacy of me as an obnoxious New York tree.
America has been creeping towards socialism since the Great Depression. My daughter and her friends love the Soviet National Anthem. When I try to be hip and joke about it, she gives me a dirty look and explains to me that actual communism killed millions of people.
The frantic cries that this election is liberty's last stand are spoken by those ignorant of history.
<Deep Breath>
But T_D has also been a real solace and education and forum for me. Something stinks in the handling of mail-in ballots and voter registration in big cities. The electronic vote tabulating process, especially in this election, is unconscionably flawed.
Also, get outside and off the internet. Go for a hike. Spend time with your family. Teach your children to whittle or hunt. Build something. Read a book. Then come back and check in.
There's too many people desperately F5ing just hoping that all the court cases are gonna skip ahead several weeks. Source: Have been refreshing a lot recently.
Echo chambers exist on both the left and the right. Rational, dispassioned discussion is impossible on either. This uncompromising partisanship by radicals on both sides hurts the majority of people who don't let politics take over their lives. I am now censored here as I was on reddit. So I just stop participating.
So purge doubters and moderates and then wonder why so many allies desert you. I cannot villainize all those who disagree with me. Now I am left with disgust at both sides.
Signal and Noise. Propaganda and Discussion. Purges and Disillusionment.
Don't let the general immaturity and borderline fanaticism by some of those here in T_D get you down... there are plenty of good people here too. Maybe even a majority. It's just that - as usual - the loudest voices are the most radical.
The OP is a prime example of everything wrong with T_D. Mindless cheerleading, purity tests and gatekeeping have no place in rational discussion.
Cheerleading has its place. Polemic has real value. If that's all we have, though, it is crap.
I just got off the phone with my father-in-law from Ohio, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Joe Biden, even down to the crankiness of declining mental acuity. He can't stand Donald Trump on a visceral level. He can barely stand me, but I am family and his daughter loves me and our kids (his grandkids) are fruit that prove the adequacy of me as an obnoxious New York tree.
America has been creeping towards socialism since the Great Depression. My daughter and her friends love the Soviet National Anthem. When I try to be hip and joke about it, she gives me a dirty look and explains to me that actual communism killed millions of people.
The frantic cries that this election is liberty's last stand are spoken by those ignorant of history.
<Deep Breath>
But T_D has also been a real solace and education and forum for me. Something stinks in the handling of mail-in ballots and voter registration in big cities. The electronic vote tabulating process, especially in this election, is unconscionably flawed.
<Another Deep Breath>