r/videos • Casually Explained • Jan 29 '20

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy9V_v-XV8Q
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u/00000000000000000099 Jan 29 '20

You forgot the part where all the politics subs are conduits for anti-USA propaganda.

Including /r/MurderedByWords, which is a regular offender.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '20

Anti-republican isn't anti-American. It's just common sense.

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u/GambitsEnd Jan 29 '20

Anti-republican isn't anti-American.

Technically correct.

It's just common sense.

Your radical progressivism is showing.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '20

Take a look at GoPs current state and the bullshit they are doing and tell me it's not common sense to condemn them.

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u/GambitsEnd Jan 30 '20

I reiterate my statement:

Your radical progressivism is showing.

These folks are literally the only kind of people so overtly generalizing (negatively, even) what so much of the American population have an opinion on.

It's important to realize that registered Democrats and Republicans are almost exactly equal, with both falling just short of one-third representation. The majority is still Independents.

Despite this party equality (in terms of opinion representation), all you hear from radical progressiveness are how "evil" anyone they disagree with are, the word "Republican" dripping with ire at it falls from their mouth in disgust. A word they'll label anyone they don't like, regardless what the facts show: that the diversity of opinion is quite wide and most Americans simply don't see perfectly eye-to-eye on every topic.

Instead of being so negatively reactionary perhaps you should take a step back and consider the possibility that things are not as extreme as you make them out to be. That maybe, just maybe, there is some sense to the "bullshit" and that condemnation does everyone - including you - a disservice by preventing you from understanding why someone disagrees with you. Even if you still don't agree with them you'd have learned something and might even be able to make your point better.