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manunkind -> RE: Another Florida Stand Your Ground Fail...... (4/26/2012 10:49:00 PM)
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ORIGINAL: SoftBonds
Manunkind,
Have you ever heard the saying "you get more flies with honey than with vinegar?"
In my experience, conservatives are mostly just people like liberals, and when you talk to them person to person, you find that they are generally decent folks.
Also, the more you talk with them, the more common ground you can find. This means less anger in the world, less fighting, more solutions. Less suffering, more people getting work and having nice lives with nice spouses and kids and good teachers and garbage collection and buses running on time...
A threat in the internet age is that we self-censor, only listen to sources that agree with us, and devolve into a society with two groups living in different worlds. The long term result of that is war, civil war, and I don't think this nation can survive another of those, do you?
So lets try to reach out to our neighbors, find solutions. Compromise sometimes means giving up something and having the other guy give up something, but it can also be finding a path that satisfies everyone's concerns, and makes everyone happier.
/end polyanna, we now return to your regularly scheduled all snark all the time channel from me...
To hop around: I agree with the self censoring, and I focus on not doing that. I read Freepers daily, and other bastions of idiocy. I know many conservatives, many of them are my family.
I've also told people they're gross as fuck, and to go away, far way and never blight my doorstep. I don't hate conservatives. I hate racist shits who have no redeeming value, unless it is the value they'll finally supply when they stop breathing.
Back to the beginning, I don't give a shit about honey vs vinegar. I want to call a spade a spade.
It's pretty impressive how a site that says it supports alt lifestyles allows racist Stormfront fucks who spout KKK rhetoric.
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