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This is not to say there are not the hardcore types who operate only to oppose the other side. Donald Trump has made many people come out of the woodwork who merely want to oppose him at all costs. I recall RFK Jr getting opposition from the New York Times when he criticized the use of artificial coloring in food, only for them to fall over themselves in proclaiming "there is very little difference" in non-artificial sources. The only difference being: the artificial source itself.

This is not to say that there is never anyone who has changed their views. But generally this is not due to some well crafted argument made by some pundit, but rather a life experience.

My dad for example used to be a liberal Democrat. That changed the moment he started paying taxes. For those like him, there is value in the information presented by pundits, since they now have a necessity to discover what they were never hearing due to a major turning point in their lives.

I have seen examples both on the left and right accusing the other side of not having any actual values other than opposing their enemy. I see this accusation as mostly untrue for both sides. Rather, I suspect that most people have already made up their minds on their political views and see no value in trying to repackage their message to appeal to those who are inherently opposed to those ideas.

So we see less of that kind of engagement attempted, thus "no actual values" are seen.

Seeing many talking heads make a big deal out of government employees possibly losing their jobs does not inspire any sympathy from me. When there are economic struggles on any scale in the private sector, people lose their jobs. Why should government employees get special status of job protection?

Yes, cuts do often happen to government jobs, but I see far more protest at government jobs lost than losses in the private sector.

Got my daily dose of cringe with NPR talking about the pay gap in women's sports compared to men, where they stated "Although men pro athletes get paid X times more than women pro athletes, the women athletes get more traffic on social media."

As if social media is not full of fake/bot posting. And along with that, social media being used more by women. And being talked about online does not correlate with real life popularity all the time either.

What the fresh hell is this? I suspect this story was thought up by someone in the West, not the East. Unless it somehow correctly points out that being obese is not desireable, I will no doubt be skipping this one.

Any time I have seen some leftist dipshit argue that "Antifa is not an organization, it's an idea!" Whatever they want to claim, it really does not matter. Whenever you see some assholes dressed in black committing violence and property damage, they are cleary organized. I have no pity in the event of their arrest for being labeled as part of a terrorist organization. Because even with their retarded reasoning, they are still committing the acts regardless of their wordmagic labels.