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I think the left and the right could benefit from a little heart-to-heart chat. Each side seems to have built up a mental caricature of the other.
What the fuck about this comment made you go "noooo BOTH SIDES 😭"
Ok.
The Right: We want women to lose their physical rights, to have immigrants all removed from the country, to ban all porn, change all non-partisan roles into Right-wing party ones, to massacre education funding, reduce climate change mitigation efforts to zero then double down on more polluting, and in general create a real-world Gilead. Also cops should be able to kill anyone they want.
The Left: We want to protect those people, and not unfund those things, a-
The Right: See, you won't work together to help us create a white nationalist state! You're not arguing in good faith!
The Left: Sigh Ok then, we wa-
The Right: They're so nasty, aren't they, the Left? So nasty! When we have their people attacked, they fight back! So violent and nasty!
The Left: We t-
The Right: Yes, focus the cameras on me, not my opponent, especially not when they're speaking! I will create a perfect utopia of perfection like none other!
The Left: W-
The Right: And we'll stop the illegal immoral war on Oil and Gas, while we abandon Ukraine to Russia and Palestine to Israel!
The Left: Frowning, leave to prepare the guillotines
While entertaining, the hypothetical conversation appears to put words in the mouths of the other side.
When I sail my ship into conservative waters, those are not the arguments that I see being made.