I do talk to people in person. My patients. My own family. My sister, a lifelong democrat until Obama was elected (who knew she was a racist?). I unfortunately “have” to speak to her at family functions. She is someone who has never fired a weapon in her life, and now owns 2 handguns, and an AR15. She thinks she…

> What could you, John/Jane Q. Saneperson have done? Be more social, more willing to engage with people who you disagree with in a manner which doesn’t devolve into insults and talking past one another

I was all on the “just be nice and listen” until my aunt spent my cousin’s high school grad party drunkenly yelling at me and the other libs for destroying the country and hoping we’d be shot.

“Be more social, more willing to engage with people who you disagree with in a manner which doesn’t devolve into insults and talking past one another.”

Yeah, people not being nice enough to their fascist neighbors is definitely not what led to our current predicament. If anything, we (and the media) engaged with them as if they were acting in good faith for far too long. 

Change your parents’ cable settings so they can’t watch Fox News anymore. 

Here we go again with the “you have to be nice and reasonable to the vile racists.” Do you spend a lot of time in the Brietbart comment section trying to gently coax these people into feeling empathy?

Get out of here with that ‘both sides are just as bad’ cry. One side has, since I can remember, willfully chosen to deny scientific knowledge as we currently know it, willfully deny rights to select groups just because they can, and claim ‘compromise’ means you give me everything that I want and accept the fact that…

The problem with that strategy is that you simply cannot reason with the unreasonable. If someone insists on existing in an alternate reality in which facts are completely destabilized, how do you have a meaningful conversation with that person?

Call the cops on your Fox News-brainwashed relatives and try to get their guns taken away next time they start ranting about shooting immigrants on sight. 

Been saying this for a while. I really don’t see any scenario now where his administration ends without political violence.
Impeached and removed? Coup.
Loses the election? Fraud, basically a coup.
Refuses to leave office in 2024, has to be removed? Coup.
Big Mac and Diet Coke-induced heart attack? Man that healthy, dying…

So we’re upset about all the people that got fired except Benoit, right? Cus that guy seems like a dildo.

Yeah, the astro-turfing here is embarrassing. Every single one of them is at least 2 paragraphs, with formatting, and buzzwords, and they all stick out like a sore thumb. It’s amazing that they think it’s believable here.

And a lot of people on the Internet unironically use “not allowing diversity of opinion” to describe moderating their stupid-ass bullshit. I know which I’d rather be.

You said:

Yes, firing a comedian who used racial and homophobic slurs is going to lead to genocide.

“Regressive left?” Leftists don’t say that.

1) Go to your job and say what Gillis said and see if your boss doesn’t fire you. Gillis is also bad at his job (he’s not funny).

1) I said I make jokes like the one Yang makes but about Jews, to fellow Jews. I don’t go out on national TV and make cringey jokes.

The amount of brand-new commenters on this article is something else.