Message from @Beth
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if you don't have a TV its easy to not listen to MSM 😛
TV? nooo
internet? yes
that's true but the mainstream still has a lot of pull, many people don't follow anything else
we're not at a point that we can just ignore it
When you live with someone who only listens to MSM & CNN for ‘news’ it’s infuriating
Yes please 🙈
Understand that the data we have been exposed to is who we are, and who we are determines what political standpoint our emotions absorb.
your flatmate/spouse has been exposed to different data than you have.
That's all it is.
Why is that a source for frustration?
my wife mainly reads CNN website
and watches Colbert
it's tough
But even when I show the data I’ve seen it’s like talking to a wall... I find any form of media gaslighting extremely frustrating. I am aware that I have a bias... I really don’t like Biden
No belief system is rational.
Socrates showed that.
You presenting data is a drop in the sea compared to what your opponent have absorbed over a lifetime.
Im a psychiatrist.
But this is free.
That’s a very good point
Doc's the bomb...
(That's a good thing)
haha
bombs are always good.
@Beth You present gigabytes. A lifetime is Yogibytes. No way you can compete.
I have to make sure I don't make any assumptions with the colloquialisms..
I’m new to politics this year.. The pandemic/lockdowns was the door opening for me so I’m looking at this with fairly fresh eyes
Yes!
I agree but I also think this is the challenge that makes or breaks it
if you can't get your party to stop consuming the opposition party newspapers, you are screwed
@Beth Here is a rule of the thumb: a political discussion is constructive if, and only if, the object of both is to understand - truly understand - eachothers standpoint.
@realz Always... can always count on the glass half full perspective. Stop being such an optimist.
It's a game.
Being angry at what people believe is like being angry at the tide for coming in, or being angry at a tornado for destroying a town.