A look at one of the most pressing problems of 2023: the lament that "the left" wouldn't be friends with "the right," over "political views."
Defining these terms and dealing with a strange spectacle: the world's most unfriendly people, demanding friendliness.
https://www.the-reframe.com/if-you-want-to-be-friends-then-why/
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I laugh every time at how the most hateful sexist pigs of men bemoan the fact that they can't get dates because of "politics". When someone wants to loudly and proudly declare that they don't think anyone like you deserves human rights like the ability to control your own body or be able to say no, or have a job or how many children you want to have or whether you can leave an abusive relationship or whether you should be hired and promoted based on how good you are at your job...
Yeah not exactly the sort of person you want to enter into a relationship with, put yourself into very vulnerable positions with them.
@vfrmedia @JessTheUnstill @JuliusGoat I met my partner through OKCupid (in the early days when it sucked less). She told me that I wasn't the highest match score, but I was the highest who wasn't a right wing asshole lying his ass off.
The strange part is that the lying is immediately obvious. But then, I suppose their model of relationships, transactional at best, puts no value on honesty.
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Vladimir Putin, Rishi Sunak (former UK Prime Minister) and Volodymyr Zelenskyy are all around the same height as myself (1,65m) - its interesting to see both the media (including their various PR/propaganda units) giving wildly varying figures for their height (metric to Imperial conversions are also an opportunity to fudge figures) plus Putin and Sunak's creative use of shoes/boots to look taller 😁 (Zelenskyy does not appear to do this)
@ashley @JessTheUnstill @vfrmedia @JuliusGoat I did find it curious that when I was dating, I didn't have a preference for height, but almost every woman who initiated contact with me was within an inch of the same height.
On the other hand, the last time I had my height measured at a medical checkup, it was 5' 11 1/2", and I hadn't realized how much that lost half inch mattered to me.
Gee, why won't I be friends with racists that are gleefully letting the people of this world suffer and die. Hmmmm, that is a puzzler.
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the right wing: the world's most unfriendly people, demanding friendliness.
How pathetic... no wonder they avoid self-awareness, self-loathing is real.
Republicans drilled it into the public: politics is stuffy, boring book stuff that everyday voters shouldn't concern themselves with, and 'politics' can't hurt you.
Like no one reads the rules to Monopoly, you got one dope that played before telling you how, real quick, because learning sucks when doing is way cooler. Gimme the fucking racecar or I'll end-up gay.
Human Lives are Not politics in any way, shape, or form. But we've been packaged to buy and sell each other.
Nonchalantly sadistic party wondering why the - actual - victims aren't licking their boots.
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Proof that hatred has a well defended echo chamber.
The rest of us at least - occasionally - subject our beliefs to doubt, to make sure they're still true.
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