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4 sats \ 8 replies \ @denlillaapan 6 Nov \ parent \ on: How to begin restoring normalcy with friends/relatives? culture
that's the same thing.
You can't mend relationships without admission of guilt and some sort of shared values/agreement on behavior
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No one is "wrong"
i don't agree, but that's okay.
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You're wrong. Wait, that means I'm wrong. Shit! That means you're right.
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mwuhahaha
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doublez down:
"The only person who can crawl out of Plato's cave is you...I don't know how to explain to you that the shadows aren't real -- they're just not real!"
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nah nah nah.
Plenty of that, from vaxx to wokeism, group identity etc.
Link to Stephens' article in NYT today again:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/opinion/donald-trump-defeat-democrats.html
The Democratic Party at its best stands for fairness and freedom. But the politics of today’s left is heavy on social engineering according to group identity. It also, increasingly, stands for the forcible imposition of bizarre cultural norms on hundreds of millions of Americans who want to live and let live but don’t like being told how to speak or what to think.
i think i might settle for acknowledgement of lesson learned.
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