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pixelatedindex · 2026-10-28T21:39:18.000Z

It feels more like a reverse psyop, like “look we are wearing masks now, isn’t this what you wanted”?

As long as the sides keep reducing common ground, the farther away from government for the people, by the people we go.

wredcoll · 2026-10-28T23:04:11.000Z

Tell me more about how "the sides" are reducing "common ground"?

bediger4000 · 2026-10-28T21:42:14.000Z

Again, let's think of two children fighting over their shares of a cookie. Child A says he should get all of the cookie. Child B says that wouldn't be fair, the cookie should be split evenly, half and half.

The adult in the room decides to promote common ground, and gives 75% of the cookie to A and 25% to B.

denkmoon · 2026-10-28T22:15:50.000Z

who exactly is the adult in the room supposed to be in this analogy? There _is_ no adult in the room, just the two children.

thrance · 2026-10-28T22:37:06.000Z

The adult in the room here is the moralizing "enlightened centrist" that puts bothsideism in every conversation about politics.

DeluluDon · 2026-10-28T23:23:32.000Z

Just remember that 1984 is fiction and not an instruction manual. Try not to get too authoritarian over demographics (any and all of them).