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Bridging the divide

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  • doogie
    doogie Member Posts: 15,072
    Didn’t read. Fuck you.
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  • LoneStarDawg
    LoneStarDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 13,777 Founders Club
    Off social media, cut loose all those highschool friends you don’t give a shit about.

    Get to know all your neighbors, know everyone on the block, invite over for dinner etc, nobody hates nearly as much in person. Everyone makes sense in their own mind and context, understand everyone who will spend the time to explain.

    Join hobby groups in your community, keep building a network of likeminded people.
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  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    Swaye said:

    HuskyJW said:

    Turn off your phone….internet isn’t real. 48 hours minimum….96 is better. Laugh when you check back in

    Fire up the grill. I didn’t say plug it in….or turn the knob. Fire….up…..the….grill

    Go fishing

    Thank HuskyJW

    This would go a long way. The other thing is to stop actually hating the other side. Dislike their positions, sure. Loathe their existence? Might be a bit much. And I am a known asshole saying this.

    Look, do you think @dflea and I agree politically? Um, no. But would that stop me drinking and fishing with him? Um, no. Hell I'd have a beer with @HHusky even though I think he is half retarded most of the time. Doesn't seem like a terrible human to me, just a snarky misguided lawyer. Whatever. The only person here I actually dislike is Bearswiin, because he seems like a smarmy fuck beta, but I know a couple folks here who have met him and swear he's a good dude. So fuck, I might even not throat punch him?

    The point, and this is terrible to say in the Thunderdome, is to not take this stuff so seriously. I mean yeah, it's important, but actually wanting the other side to die is extreme. I get it, political tribalism is a big thing now, but the intense antagonism is over the top. All this excludes Antifa and the Aryan Nation - both sides have fringe lunatic groups whose sole aim is to hurt people to advance their kooky agenda. Fuck those guys. We can napalm all of them.

    edit: We all know none of this is going to happen. The modern media is in business to inflame passions then step back and act aghast when mobs beat people and shit burns. Gets clicks.
    Of you have a beer with TKS be sure and be prepared to pay the tab. Because his wallet isn’t coming out.
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  • LebamDawg
    LebamDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,855 Swaye's Wigwam
    Change your political party.

    Find one that is not in power, meaning abandon the Democratic and Republican Party. Get them out of power. The media collapse will follow amid the confusion.

    That would be a good start. Should have been a lawyer joke in there because the previous statement is the punchline.

    My best friend is a union loving, Biden voter, liberal SOB that hates Trump and everything he stands for - when I am feeling kind of feisty it is very easy to push his buttons. Kind of fun
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  • UW_Doog_Bot
    UW_Doog_Bot Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 18,650 Founders Club
    Swaye said:

    HuskyJW said:

    Turn off your phone….internet isn’t real. 48 hours minimum….96 is better. Laugh when you check back in

    Fire up the grill. I didn’t say plug it in….or turn the knob. Fire….up…..the….grill

    Go fishing

    Thank HuskyJW

    This would go a long way. The other thing is to stop actually hating the other side. Dislike their positions, sure. Loathe their existence? Might be a bit much. And I am a known asshole saying this.

    Look, do you think @dflea and I agree politically? Um, no. But would that stop me drinking and fishing with him? Um, no. Hell I'd have a beer with @HHusky even though I think he is half retarded most of the time. Doesn't seem like a terrible human to me, just a snarky misguided lawyer. Whatever. The only person here I actually dislike is Bearswiin, because he seems like a smarmy fuck beta, but I know a couple folks here who have met him and swear he's a good dude. So fuck, I might even not throat punch him?

    The point, and this is terrible to say in the Thunderdome, is to not take this stuff so seriously. I mean yeah, it's important, but actually wanting the other side to die is extreme. I get it, political tribalism is a big thing now, but the intense antagonism is over the top. All this excludes Antifa and the Aryan Nation - both sides have fringe lunatic groups whose sole aim is to hurt people to advance their kooky agenda. Fuck those guys. We can napalm all of them.

    edit: We all know none of this is going to happen. The modern media is in business to inflame passions then step back and act aghast when mobs beat people and shit burns. Gets clicks.
    As much as I appreciate the sentiment we really are fighting real authoritarianism at this point. People who openly discuss packing the Supremes and ending the filibuster aren't interested in "governing through unity".

    Punish the shit out of anyone that shits on core American values that used to be what we ALL agreed on. Shout out to Joe Manchin, I'd vote for that kind of adult in the room.

    You do that by having beers and organizing with people in your community. By becoming politically active even if it's ugly. By starting local and starting small. It has to start with people that inherently will buy in though.
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  • SFGbob
    SFGbob Member Posts: 33,215
    RaceBannon said:

    I wonder how you find common ground with blithering idiots like this

    Kobe as an adult?
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