You should.
You should also explain why you thought I was joking.
What's funny?
Nothing's funny. I believe you believe everything you wrote.
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Explain why you don't believe it. Highlight my flawed thinking.
WTF.
I've said twice now that I believe you. Then you write "...why you don't believe it".
Third time: I believe you. Message received. Transmission confirmed. Roger that.
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For the third time as well. I want to understand your position. Explain the thinking behind your dismissive comment.
I look at partisan ideology as an affliction. Literally. And one of the many symptoms of this disorder is that the afflicted naturally thinks and communicates in hyperbole. Their ideology blows everything up or diminishes everything beyond its natural state. Everything good on the "other" is diminished. Everything bad on the "other" side is blown up. And vice versa.
Ideology distorts. Using a different affliction as an analogy: An anorexia victim looks in the mirror and sees a fat person, and there is nothing that you can say to them that will change their minds or make them see themselves differently.
So, I believe you. I'm not trying to change your mind on anything.
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