I dunno being able to relate and empathize with people on both sides has done a lot for me implicitly, I think? Otherwise I'd just say that yeah, none of this can really have any impact but that doesn't mean that we can't discuss it
people listening to u performatively "empathize" doesnt do shit for them
Dan you should just raise kids in the ghetto
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Does shit for me, I mean
does what
bro i love gentrifying
I'm just gunna say it I don't want anything to do with the ghetto those people scare me
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You can only gentrify areas around areas where people actual want to live
same
remember to put ur money in ur sock but real ones will strip your shoes and socks off anyways
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Opens my mind, I think. Thats probably worthless to others in the grand scheme but has plenty of value to me
It's really funny the caution Dan shows to iaafr
You can see the totem pole
I respect him and his takes
I respect nobody more than myself does that make me a narcissist
I dunno but I'm sure that's healthier than the alternative
this is rationalizing via implying that having nice-sounding political takes and reading the most articulate and balanced sounding people on reddit or whatever actually improves your mental faculties in any meaningful way
when you get down to the details that implication is really questionable
Sure. I'd be happy to have a conversation that isn't an echo chamber and consider what could be done or if my take is as disconnected as you say it is. That's one of the reasons I really like this site
no you should stop being happy to have these conversations at all thats my whole point
Reddit is probably the worst place in the world to get any type of takes Iām almost convinced that the entire front page is astroturfed and each post that makes it there is designed to make it there and the comments are also carefully posted in order to sway public opinion one way or the other