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Originally Posted by Bucketlist2012
No one believes what you believe.
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Our nation is currently lead by people who share his beliefs.
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Originally Posted by realcoray
I am pretty aligned with what JP believes (or at least his level headed approach), I just don't feel like arguing about it.
What I will say is that I heard something on NPR about a study that demonstrated the fairly obvious concept that people choose to access news/media that aligns with what they already believe.
Granted you could say I was listening to liberal government funded NPR because I believe X or Y, and just ignore whatever I have to say but the source shouldn't matter. Doesn't it just make sense that people would do that?
My point is only that it's good to listen to people with other opinions, and it's pretty weak to attack people that have different views because you just may be wrong.
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Sounds like you have your fingers in your ears yelling, LA, LA, LA.
I mean come on, there is no arguing in this thread. What is wrong with differing views expressing them?
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Originally Posted by parsonsj
I was hoping we could discuss these matters using facts -- but we seem to have trouble even agreeing on those.  |
As stated earlier, facts are undisputed. All the figures a governments use will have some sort of twist to them including or excluding data, to achieve their desired results.
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Originally Posted by parsonsj
Many message boards tend to have echo-chamber tendencies, and this one is no different. But I must point out that there are millions of people, nations even, of people with views different than one's own. We ignore the possibility of being wrong at our own peril.
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Would it be possible this is not an echo chamber but people who might just actually agree with one another with a view that differs from yours?
What do we know is that spending trillions of dollars DOES NOT make Americans better off.