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to be honest, art, i find my engagement with politics here flagging ...i wish there was some way to move things to a better level debate-wise...but i also realize that i do not always help matters myself, so up front....
mea culpa.
i was thinking about some kind of reading room thing, so that maybe debates could get routed through a book or series of articles from different viewpoints on a particular topic, so that what often dissolves into snarkiness could get routed through a common referencepoint. if someone feels attacked, they can point to the book or articles. that has been my conclusion so far: that the "bad debates" (in my opinion) float on a thin surface without any obvious way for us to agree to move further.
however, there are often really quite interesting conversations here.....this can be a really interesting place to hang out in.
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