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Originally Posted by JinnKai
...In short, this means "I think we'd never come to an agreement no matter how much we hashed it out, and I'd prefer to address the other contributors to this thread in a civil matter. Thanks."
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You just described a strategy I learned the hard way through "batshit" conversations with family. Not just immediate family, but family far and wide. Basically, no politics or religion at the dinner table. My rule of course, not theirs. Forced me to learn the art of speed-segue. Online I try not to bother.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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