@Sprayfoam_Sal @theTDC @ArdainianRight @ChristiJunior @lichelordgodfrey just to be clear i'm not some fence sitter, it's not like i either have to side with nutjobs on one side or nutjobs on the other side. there's grass on each side of the fence and then a river beyond that. i'm not someone who just wants to do nothing and let bygones be bygones.

i'm just saying there's a better way to get people on your side than relentlessly shitting on others. i'm not going to walk into a coffee shop and yell at a bunch of teenagers that they're faggots and hope that one of them is like "oh yeah, i am a faggot, maybe i should stop being a faggot." fuck no, i'm going to sit in there like a normal human being, make some friends, and if someone wants to talk about stuff we can politely talk about stuff. heck, maybe even a viewpoint i have gets changed a little bit in the process, maybe i learn something about a person i didn't know before that helps me understand their way of thinking and how i can hope to help them. my personality doesn't stop and start at a political compass coordinate and when people know you're not a bad person they're going to be way more conflicted when they hear what you have to say about something they don't agree with. and you guys can say "that never happens" all you want but it's happened to me personally quite often. if you think it never happens you're not trying. it never happens on the internet because nobody gets to know each other and they just hurl insults and assume they know everything about a person so that they can feel better about themselves... but it does happen IRL if you don't walk around yelling at people like you do online.