I've never felt so powerless to communicate as I do right now.
The rhetoric on both sides of the debate is just... just asinine, completely and utterly without merit.
Having a good idea in today's political climate is like throwing stones into a sea of turds, it doesn't even make a ripple.
Everyday I'm embarrassed by the rhetoric of the left and the everyday contentiousness of the right. Its humiliating to have to take the far right seriously, its like debating with a chimp.
Where as before we had the moral high ground and could casually dismiss such moronic rhetoric as merely childish nonsense, our skullduggery debate tactics and culture of victimhood have given a voice to those in our corner we tend to keep hidden and out of sight.
The new left is making a mockery of our policies and doing more to undue the gains we have made in the last century than the republicans have in the last decade.
We expect the right to sound dumb yet possess a folksy wisdom or bit of common sense missing in other voters, and the left to be firebrands and idealists who are perhaps a little naive as to how the real world works.
So far, I'm seeing none of those positive characteristics in voters on either side of the isle.
You know its a sore point in your history when fascists' bold face lies start making the rounds as "intellectual honesty".
We have to stop evaluating all opinions as if they have equal merit. We can stop and pause the debate for childish remonstrations and name calling, if candidates can't conduct themselves as if they were potential luminaries then they should be remanded to the kiddie table.
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Only 10% of the population is worth it, no to be arrogant with the other 90% but do not try to iluminate them, I will get you nowhere.
That chicken breast looks way too perfect
Because both sides are wrong.
The right is becoming more nazi. And the left is becoming more self destructive in a pursuit of globalism.
There are inherent faults in both of them that can only be resolved with both sides acknowledging their inherent faults and working together to fix it.
But to compromise now is to give an inch. And to give an inch is to lose a mile. Thus we become deadlocked in a war of ideals in which no problem can be truly solved.
Welcome to reality.
>That chicken breast looks way too perfect
>icantcook.jpg
I can only speak for Germany, but here the "intellectual" argumentation was mostly used to obfuscate and deny a debate. How often did I hear "that's a very simple solution for a very complex argument" in TV talkshows.
They never wanted to engage in a debate but frame the issue in a way that suits them. Therefore I'm enjoying the populism immensely and hope it gets even worse and more provokative. I love reading all the "explanations" the newspapers write pages and pages about and yet don't have an idea what the people actually want. Their impotency makes my dick hard.
TL DR:
The "intellectuals" deserve the shitshow that is going on right now. Hope they get fucked hard.
>for a very complex problem*
I was talking about the meat inside, you must have cut trow away most of the breast (or just not shoew them in the picture) for the meat to be that white and clean-looking
This same-fagging
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But isn't most progress measure in inches, not yards? A slow, steady march towards a better, brighter future shouldn't be confused with a climatic disaster that results in a massive regression of social moors and attitudes?
idk how you prepare chicken m8 but I never have the problem you're talking about. try baking it instead of pan frying it
>nonsense non-argument babyspeak
fuck you assholes. you aren't saying anything. go fuck yourselves.
Some people enjoy the spectacle of Jerry Springer and day time talk shows, its still trash.
> Because both sides are wrong.
> The right is becoming more nazi.
I don't know how you can honestly look at the world and see this as a bad thing. We're well past solving things nicely, big fucking violent changes have to be made and made soon.
>Taking ANYTHING seriously
m8.................
so Trump is?
He gives america the bird and you turn around and bend over for him?
get bent.
ant and the grasshopper bro,
ant and the grasshopper.
try not to scrape your tongue against his fingers when Trumps got his entire fist up your ass.
you are all rethoric and zero substance.
>muh progress
>muh utopian future we have to move towards
commies of all kinds have used this rhethoric for over a century. it's pure ideology, zero reality. that's why nobody takes you serious if you spew this shit. all it does is try and derail the conversation with feelgood non-arguments.
>Where as before we had the moral high ground
The left quite literally never had the moral high ground, and most people are starting to realise that.
>But isn't most progress measure in inches, not yards?
>Progressivism
Not. Even. Once.
The world isn't on a straight line to more "progress". It's an up and down, an everturning wheel.
Also:
>We have to stop evaluating all opinions as if they have equal merit.
that's exactly what I was criticising. There is nothing wrong with building a wall to protect your borders. If you would have talked about illegal immigration earlier you wouldn't have to deal with the things as they are discussed now.
If an opinion is dumb shit then you should be able to dismantle it in 30 seconds. If you can't then maybe it isn't so dumb.
so all technological progress of the past century are completely wasted on you? The transistor, the advances in materials science, sound engineering, aerospace, thorium reactors, these are all meaningless?
this.
the left's "moral high ground" consisted of dismissing eight-wing opinions with "THATS WHAT HITLER WOULD HAVE SAID" while dismissing stalin/mao/pol pot with "not real socialism :^)"
that's their idea of "moral high ground" lmao. it is a mystery how they made people fall for this shit for so long.
>There is nothing wrong with building a wall to protect your borders.
If you live in 12th century europe
>technology exists
>this somehow validates my social values and philosophy
Oh come on, you talk about about starting race wars and committing mass genocide. How is the comparison not apt?
tell me again what party affiliations flat earthers and creations generally ascribe to?
>If an opinion is dumb shit then you should be able to dismantle it in 30 seconds.
how long was that?
lurk moar
>If you live in 12th century europe
Nope. Then it was against armies. Now - after the 20th century - that people are mass mobilized we need them to stop people. We didn't need walls on borders in the 19th century because people simply couldn't move more than 50km. There was for all intents and purposes no way to move around.
wow. just wow.
trying to stop a hundred million people across 1200 hundred miles of border with a fence when there are boats, shovels, airplanes, wirecutters, breaching charges, corrupt cops, drug cartels, coyote networks, ladders and catapults.
that is just... wow.