Hi. In today’s episode, we look at the false narrative surrounding police “defunding” and crime, and investigate what cops have really been up to since the s…

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    Your definitions, not mine.

    Extremes are untenable. There has to be a compromise at some point.

    I think your leftist definition is more moderate than mine.

    I think many moderates agree on the general premise of what you want, but how to get there will take more work.

    I’m far from enlightened, and I’m clearly ignorant for pissing up hill with a reactionary such as yourself.

    Good luck. Enjoy your life of suffering and toil.

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      Extremes are untenable. There has to be a compromise at some point.

      I don’t know what rock you’ve been under the last couple of decades, but the democratic party has been trying to compromise with the republican party, and only ever gets fucked over for doing so. “Compromise” on the right effectively means ‘fuck you, you’re voting for what I want or nothing at all’, and even then they’ll still vote against the compromise.

      I want compromises too, but both sides have to be willing to come to the table in good faith, and the republican party hasn’t had good faith available since bush, possibly before then

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        Exactly!

        Now, if we can go back to my original response.

        I’d love the same information in a format I can feed reasonable moderate republicans. And vice versa for democrats. To spur the discussion. I’m not talking about politicians and so called representatives. They are never going to solve the issues. It keeps them in power.

        I’m talking about real democracy in the exchange of ideas between people that ultimately lead us to a better nation.

        Not calling someone “ignorant” for having the desire to heal polarized friends and family and seeking the tools to do so.

        People that respond the way they did are part of the problem. Entrenched and unwilling to reflect on a complex reality of a giant melting pot of ideologies. Taking a context and manipulating it to spew your world view.

        Good luck with that approach.

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      Haha you’re just a coward. You want to be a conservative but you know it isn’t popular so you won’t just be one. Coward. C. O. W. A. R. D.

      Republicans are fascists. You seem to be okay with a little fascism. I’m not. There’s our disconnect. Fascism is a deal breaker for me.

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        Depends on where you live on what’s popular.

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          Ha! Ok. We’re done. You’re a fascist troll and I’m blocking you, and you’re going to tell yourself that’s a win but the reality is it isn’t. It isn’t a win that you can annoy people with your cowardice until they refuse to waste further time on you.

          You need to go take a looonnnggg look in the mirror and ask yourself why you act the way you do. It isn’t nobility or wisdom. It isn’t respectable. It’s cowardly and ignorant and lazy. One day you might grow up and realize that. It isn’t gonna be today though.

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            Yep. That’s a win. You should take some of your own advice.

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            What a saga. I really don’t know how we got here from my original response. Sorry folks.