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Thcdenton@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Everyone’s been really nice as long as I don’t touch anything political - then it becomes a fart sniffing smug fest.
AceTKen@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
stormdahl@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Unless I know the other person has the same intent to respectfully listen and try to understand rather than argue I won’t engage in any sort of political discussion. Polarizing opinions have been completely normalized online and it’s literally ruining society.
Cris_Color@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Happy Lemmy anniversary! I’m glad you’re here :)
And yeah, I can very much understand that, I try to do the same. Sometimes it feels productive to talk with people you don’t share perspective with, but if it’s just gonna be a flame war I don’t wanna go throwing gasoline, nothing is gained by that
stormdahl@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I love talking with people with a different perspective, and I love playing the devils advocate to try to understand other points of view better. As you said, if it’s just going to become a fight it’s completely meaningless.
Cris_Color@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It sounds like we share very similar approaches :)
Katana314@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I really want a better formalized framework for argument/discussion of a topic that either participant can feel safe in. Currently, we have courtrooms, our old schools have Debate Clubs, but I’d want something far easier to pick up on that allows for time to research/validate discussion points.