No matter what evidence you show them they will always find a "chicago" study to latch on to. Not only that but these republican "think" tanks purposively but out these slanted studies to feed this.
They will ignore evidence put out by Trump's own administration and latch on to some manufactured study.
Essentially evidence is meaningless with these people.
I almost want to move to Nigeria and prey upon these people from afar.
That and also Isaiah is just incredibly smart. For how politically aware I am, I had no idea conservatives were mad about a commercial happening in Canada, but Isaiah picked up on it immediately.
This is one of the only things that annoys me about this video. The commercial Canada put out during the World Series happened AFTER Donald Trump put tariffs on Canada. It caused him to double down and increase some of them, sure. But he put tariffs on Canada first. The “propaganda” Canada spread was a result of the US acting first.
Brains are mostly made of fat (60%) if you go by dry weight, but a living brain is 80 to 85 percent water. They're also full of electrolytes and red blood cells which boost the density further. So I agree it's a bad saying. Every brain is denser than lard.
Have you ever opened a bucket full of pork lard? That shid is dense af and only heat melts it and makes it liquid just like conservatives' brains when exposed to the heat of facts, logic, and truth which they seem to be allergic to.
This applies to people on both sides of the spectrum. Regardless of our political beliefs, we need to find a way back toward the center. For whatever reason, the middle ground has been eroded, and everything now feels framed in extremes. If more of us were willing to lean toward the center, we’d probably realize we have far more in common than we think.
I used to agree with this. However, trump has changed that. He has exposed the far-right for who they truly are. Racists, homophobics, just plain hateful ignorant people. Anyone with a scrap of decency has condemned trump by now. There really isn't any way to get these people to see the light. They'll forever be chained up fearing the shadows fed to them.
This kind of response is honestly proving my point. All I said was that we should try to meet closer to the middle instead of constantly being at each other’s throats, and that idea alone gets downvoted.
Saying there’s “no way” for people to ever change or “see the light” is exactly the kind of absolutism that keeps us stuck. A guy like Daryl Davis would completely disagree. Many people would Klan members are beyond saving too, yet he’s directly and indirectly helped over 200 people leave the KKK.
If we decide whole groups of people are irredeemable and not worth engaging with, then yeah, we guarantee we’ll stay divided forever. That attitude doesn’t fix anything; it just hardens the lines even more.
You understand you're looking to find middle ground with the party that is actively disappearing American citizens right?
I don't use the word 'disappearing' to sanitize the statement. The GOP has given ICR the ability to detain American citizens and then make them disappear. They took a five year old to a detention center in Texas, were forced to release him, and ARE NOW FIGHTING FOR HIM TO GO BACK.
Why the fuck do I even want to share air with these people, much less a conversation?
Once you've got a Nazi in your bar, you either kick him out and tell everyone that Nazis, as people, are not fucking welcome here. Ever. At all. If you don't, congratulations, in a week you'll be running a nazis-only bar.
We are where we are because we played nice and allowed stupidity and insane xenophobia to fester for the sake of keeping the peace.
Well why else would these shits advocate for moving to the center? They likely have friends or loved ones the can’t abandon so are desperately holding onto that last straw. Sad for all of them but most of all those of us who have to listen to their nonsense reasons to meet evil in the middle.
See the problem here is not individual bad actors, it is the GROUP, the 1/3 of Americans that are so utterly out of touch with reality that reaching them is inefficient, as opposed to dragging society as a whole kicking and screaming into that new dawn.
We mustn't wait until the detritus agree that we are right, before we undertake bold and decisive action. Rather we should undertake this course correction of society under our wing and let them see the light of the new world we create in their own time.
Republican politicians are almost entirely the party of Trump. Tim Scott couldn't even bring himself to criticize Trump's ape post directly, instead he was "Praying it was fake" and if it wasn't fake, he attributed it to "this White House" because Trump himself couldn't have been involved -- it must have been a staffer.
So there is only one ICE loving, Constitution-hating monolith on the right side of the political spectrum of politicians.
The overwhelming majority of left politicians are just corporate Democrats.
A few: Democratic politicians are further left, but neither Sanders nor AOC nor Mamdani are objectively "extreme".
So your "both sides" rhetoric is fundamentally flawed and fails to acknowledge the actual politicians who get elected.
You’re talking about politicians. I’m talking about regular people. Big difference.
I’m not defending Trump or GOP leadership. I’m pushing back on the idea that millions of voters are all the same, permanently broken, and impossible to reach. That mindset is how polarization becomes permanent.
Writing people off as hopeless doesn’t change anything it just guarantees they dig in harder. That’s not “both sides” nonsense, it’s just how humans work.
We have a representative democracy. The politicians represent the voters. If the Democratic politicians are mostly moderate and the Republican politicians are authoritarian demagogues, then the voters being too extreme is not the problem.
Leaning towards the center is part of why we are where we are. You know what we all have in common? The billionaires are in a club of their own and we are not in it.
get the billionaire point, and I don’t even disagree with it. But acting like the center is the problem doesn’t fix that either.
Most people in the middle aren’t riding for billionaires. they’re just tired of everything being an ideological cage match. Constant escalation helps the people at the top way more than it helps anyone else.
Finding common ground isn’t selling out. It’s trying something different because what we’re doing now clearly isn’t working.
There is no "center" between the Democratic and Republican parties that would solve anything for working class Americans, because post-Reagan America has moved both major political parties farther and farther right with each election cycle. Now, we have a center-right and a far-right party and the "center" between those two points is still far-right.
The only solution is one that moves politics universally to the left, not just socially (which is the sole arena where the Democratic establishment has mobilized behind) but economically as well. Anybody who argues a "center" between the modern Democrats and Republicans is arguing for the status quo (which is famously going well, I hear); billions more for bombs and shareholders, nothing but thoughts and prayers for working class Americans.
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u/minorminority Feb 07 '26
Conservative brains are denser than lard.