Look mate i agree but when arguing with comservatives that the exact same attitude that they give you and it annoys me because it is not a real argument to say “you are wrong and have no critical thinking skills” yet here we are again.
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Glent@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago[deleted]
lowleekun@ani.social 3 weeks ago
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Conservatives are wrong and are reactionary in a way that shows they have no critical thinking skills. It is ok to acknowledge that.
ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
It won’t win anyone to your side if you’re trying to convince them and say that though. That’ll just harden them in their views.
If you really want to reduce the influence of the right then you’d want to stop that sort of language spreading
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No, treating them as reasonable people is the reason they took power. They cannot be reasoned with as proven by decades of them hardening their views while they were treated as “reasonable people with differing views”.
No, I won’t cater to the idea that pointing out problems makes them worse.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s not about them actually being the same.
What @lowleekun@ani.social is saying is that no one sees themselves as the bad guy, regardless of what their opponents think.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Sure, they can view themselves however they want. Doesn’t change reality.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You’re low key proving my point about how people think.
Blooper@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
It’s funny because I 100% agree with you both.