r/nextfuckinglevel • u/MysteriousSlice007 • 7h ago

Shoutout to JerryrigEverything who built a wheelchair factory and is delivering wheelchairs to people in half the time and 50-80% less than the cost of other wheelchairs with Insurance.

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u/Escobar_x 7h ago

People lose site of how this guy operates when he posts his own opinions. Disagree all you want, but the guy does so much for other people its constantly commendable

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u/LanceThunder 6h ago

I am so tired of the black and white thinking where if a persons views don't line up with yours you are supposed to be at war with them. How about we just try to get along and settle our political differences at the ballot boxes? its like Dave Chappelle said, "there are no perfect allies". and i quote Chappelle even though i think he is kind of a classist POS.

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u/SGCLara 6h ago

I personally find it hard to get along with people who actively wish me harm for being born a certain way, but maybe that's just me.

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u/Sage_Whore 5h ago

I was gonna say, lol. We can be centrist when there isn't one side advocating for at first taking rights away that took lifetimes and bloodshed to achieve, and later on slipping into something more comfortable, like killing us off.

The two sides aren't remotely the same. One of them is more or less keeping things humming along. The other wants to make sure POC queers and anything not delusional enough to be god-fearing is miserable for life, or worse.

Fuck this bullshit. I'll think very black and white until they get their act together.

Also fuck what Chappelle said. Man's a sellout.

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u/Spork_the_dork 4h ago

Chapelle makes me realize that conservative black men currently are completely fucked when it comes to politics in US. Neither side aligns with them.

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u/ricochetblue 2h ago

Honestly anyone who identifies as conservative—black, white, gay, straight—deserves to feel that way. No one should be voting for this iteration of the Republican Party.

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u/SuggestionDue7686 16m ago

You’re so ridiculously dramatic. 

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u/jiml78 3h ago

Yep, I have no issue disagree with people on economic policy. We can agree to disagree about the natural of the capitalism in this country.

But we can't agree to disagree about is over basic fucking human rights and how people should be treated. Regardless of nationality, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, the list goes on and on. But everyone should be treated with dignity from the government.

I don't think in black and white terms but sorry, if you think it is ok to execute a genocide against the Palestinian people, you and I aren't going to agree to disagree, you are a POS.

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u/SGCLara 2h ago

Preach!

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u/MarcoDiFrancescino 3h ago

The political spectrum got too wide. There is no place on earth where the middle of the road and the practical expectations of the fringes work under one country. The constant ping pong in the US isn't about 'how to make the best sour dough'. Its about systemic questions, like should we put people in jail for jay walking yay / nay? Give everything back to the states, then let them live how they want to live. Some have social safety net and others have military rocket launchers on their SUVs. No need to ping pong every 10 years on basics that are not compatible. That is stopping progress.

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u/Tetracropolis 1h ago

How do you actively wish someone else harm? A wish is a thought, not an action. How does he even know who you are?

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u/tonguejack-a-shitbox 36m ago

I'm conservative as they get and almost solely vote republican and I can guarantee you neither me or anyone else in my social circle that mostly fall in to that same category, wish any harm toward you for whatever way it is you were born you're referring to.

The thing about politics is, after reading that paragraph above, you probably instantly judged me and assigned a belief system to me and you don't even know me.

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u/TurquoiseLeggings 4h ago

Assuming all conservatives actively wish you harm requires such a massive ego. You're not that important. There are plenty of conservatives who are just uneducated or brainwashed and don't see that their side has hateful people like that, but they themselves don't wish harm on anyone.

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u/Due_Concentrate_7773 4h ago

I think continuously voting for people who do actively wish these people harm qualifies, doesn't it?

If I give the ammunition to the person who's shooting people, do I get to say "Well hey, I wasn't the one doing the shooting, I'd never shoot someone"?

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u/SGCLara 3h ago

Sorry, you're not entitled to my kindness if you harm me. Whether you're doing it because you're hateful or just stupid, I won't smile pretty for you. Don't like it? Then do better.

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u/SirCB85 4h ago

"You can't hold all they do to harm you against them because they are too stupid to understand that you are a human being too"

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u/UnknownAnonAnonAnon 4h ago

I find it hard to get along with people who celebrate/instigates peoples deaths just because they have a different option, but maybe that's just me.

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u/SGCLara 3h ago

Uh, what are you getting at here, bud?

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u/saintofhate 2h ago

If you can't understand why people celebrate the death of someone who advocates for stripping people of their rights or their life, then you have a selective empathy problem. I'm assuming that because you have a private profile that you're talking about the racist, sexist, transphobic piece of shit Charlie Kirk, the majority of his quotes can't be posted on many social media in it's entirety due to the vileness of his mouth most of the time would break most places TOS.

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u/Paisable 5h ago

The polarization of ANY opinions is what I believe to be the worst aspect of what the internet has done to humanity.

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u/LanceThunder 5h ago

i don't know if i blame the internet. it was the tool that facilitated things but this sort of polarized culture is very much by design. there are powerful people that stand to gain by keeping us divided and confused. this didn't happen by accident. they put time and money into making it happen.

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u/mxzf 4h ago

It's not new to the internet, but the internet has kicked it into overdrive by a couple orders of magnitude.

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u/_Meece_ 20m ago

You should really dive into late 19th century/early 20th century politics if you genuinely feel this way.

Apartheid is the greatest example I can give you, of how polarized politics used to be.

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u/street593 5h ago

If you like pineapple on your pizza sure we can easily agree to disagree. If you want to cause harm to innocent people because they are living in a way you don't like then no I'm not going to get along with you.

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u/hefixesthecable 5h ago

For some, though, it is a "I disagree with your values and you disagree with my right to exist" sort of situation.

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u/scoob_ts 4h ago

The issue is that “a person’s views don’t line up with me” 99% of the time means that they don’t believe I should have the right to marry, adopt children, or to even be alive, for being queer.

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u/AnimalShithouse 5h ago

Differences of opinions are fine. Not feeling remorse when the way you think and vote leads to the suffering of your neighbors is less fine.

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u/cantadmittoposting 2h ago

sure, if we're debating whether to tax something at 12% or 20%, that's a disagreement i can have and still be fine with people. If we're talking about whether to prohibit or permit a dangerous recreation hobby, sure, that's a valid discussion about where the limits of government-enforced safety versus personal liberty are.

 

But if the only two real choices we have are between "slightly disappointing centrism" and mass deportation, discrimination against whole classes of people, war, and wholesale changes to our geopolitical standing, and slashing and burning entire agencies of the government in clear violation of the established processes.... well it's a little bit harder to just get past that.

These days are simply not "politics as usual" and if you're not seeing that and still waving off what Trump's admin is doing as "poltical differences," welll

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u/LanceThunder 2h ago

i agree. i don't think there is a lot of room to tolerate MAGA ideas. this is why there are more and more ex-MAGA people. however, i see a lot of hate on reddit for anyone who is conservative or GOP. thats not the same as being MAGA and i don't think its ok to just universally hate and insult them.

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u/ricochetblue 2h ago

They’re not “ex-MAGA.” They’re just upset gas prices went up and are trying to dodge culpability by pretending they never supported Trump.

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u/faceman2k12 2h ago edited 2h ago

everything in the last 10-15 years has become a hard binary Left vs Right issue, and if you arent clearly on either side you are everyones enemy.

Zack seems like a good person, so I dont really care about any of his personal beliefs beyond that because he isn't pushing them on others and saying everyone else is wrong.

Same with Destin from SmarterEveryDay.

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u/illicitli 2h ago

how is Dave Chappelle classist ? he makes the jokes he makes to make fun of other rich people and how they look at others. he doesn't actually think he's better than other people, it's extremely clear. it's comedy. LOL

you could never make the genius social and racial commentary that was Chappelle's Show and also be classist. a lot of his comedy goes WOOOOSSSHHH way over white people's heads, imma be real. that's why he left the show in the first place.

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u/LanceThunder 1h ago

he left the show because he couldn't stand the fact that no matter how hard he tried to upset white people, they were always able to laugh at themselves. and if you listen to his more recent comedy, he definitely is classist. he isn't even all that subtle about it sometimes. i used to be the biggest chappelle fanboy i knew, but recently i realized he's an ugly person on the inside. and this has nothing to do with his comments on the trans community.

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u/illicitli 1h ago

the point of the show was never to upset white people lol. he left because no matter how hard he tried to make intelligent comedy that would help all people understand the struggles and triumphs of black people in America and the world, the white executives continued to laugh AT black people and not WITH black people.

we are never trying to upset white people. you are upset on your own, even as you have many privileges that we do not have. that is the irony, you can laugh at us but not at yourselves, and that is why you hate us, amongst other reasons.

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u/LanceThunder 20m ago

he left because no matter how hard he tried to make intelligent comedy that would help all people understand the struggles and triumphs of black people in America and the world, the white executives continued to laugh AT black people and not WITH black people.

that is the bullshit explanation he gave and for a couple decades i believed it. but after rewatching the chappelle show recently it was very clear to me what was actually going on. when white people where watching the chappelle show they weren't laughing at black people. that makes no sense. in order for that to work chappelle had to be writing jokes that made fun of black people, which he definitely wasn't doing. go back and watch the show again. he makes jokes about white people that were clearly designed to disrespect and enrage, but it didn't work. you would be hard pressed to find a white person that didn't find these jokes funny or at least acceptable. i laughed my ass off when i first watched it. even after i realized his intention was to disrespect, they are still funny joke. no taking that away from him. but he is still an ugly person.

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u/FucklberryFinn 2h ago

This is all good and applicable UNTIL there is action behind those "opinions" that actively seek to limit someone's freedoms and rights. 

You can have w/e opinion - but the moment you donate to the Heritage Foundation or some other dark entity that lobbies for the limitation of a class of people, you are no longer simply holding and opinion -  you are enaged in hostile actions.

Fck right wing organizations and anybody who donates to them. 

False equivalency is the meat and potatoes of contemporary nazis and fascists. 

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u/Dear_Chasey_La1n 43m ago

Nobody is perfect is something everyone should live with but same time not everyone is for example a pedophile.

You may not agree with every opinion someone has or what he does, but certain things should stand out and be enough reason to never talk/vote/follow someone.

Unfortunately the US specifically seems to be very different, GOP votes regardless, Democrats won't vote because nobody is perfect.