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How would you approach persuading a far extreme conservative toward center? What would you set as a realistic goal for a productive discourse? Would it be better attempt to do so in person rather than online?

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[โ€“] PoliticalAgitator@lemmy.world 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Because "extreme liberals" push things like equality, respect, social progress and accountability and "extreme conservatives" push bigotry, violence, greed and shit that fixes nothing.

[โ€“] occultist8128@infosec.pub 1 points 3 weeks ago

yeah, it's just funny not in context of irony. idk how to tell i'm not a native speaker so i think ppl assuming i'm being sarcastic when i'm not lol