How would you react if you heard someone say that talking to a right winger is like talking to a flat earther?

[bigslab]

agree

disagree

[MCheetah]

Half agree, half disagree. I'd tell them that that applies to most human beings, not just those "on the right" or "on the left." You have wokeness on one end and Christianity on the other. Virtue signaling for COVID and LGBT crap on one end and virtue signaling for abortion and jingoism on the other end. Obeying evil rich billionaires in blue ties on one end and evil rich millionaires in red ties on the other end.

The ACTUAL stupid thing is assuming the left and right are any different from each other. And point that out to whoever was stupid enough to make that quote to begin with. I'd just hold up a mirror to them and tell them to point at the biggest idiot in the room standing in front of them.

I voted "Disagree" because the implication is that left wingers are somehow more intelligent, and that is completely false. Left wingers are probably even less intelligent than the right in all the woke crap they swallow to their own detriment.

Like 95% of human beings are idiots, but at least flat-earthers aren't also sheep in addition to it. REALLY dumb, but at least not sheep.

[BeMuse]

I'd just think they were a brainwashed communist retard that overestimates their own intelligence.

[StevieNix]

The smartest people on the planet are on the right. Joey has the IQ of dryer lint.

This is where the left gets their news.

[SmokinAces2000]

lol 😂

[Anonymous]

I would have to agree.

[StevieNix]

[EtherealGuy]

Despite what people think, most people with opposing viewpoints have considered them just as much as you have. We build democracy on that very idea, that people hold informed beliefs. If you think the other side haven't thought enough on the idea but you have, then you're holding a false equivalency. Hell, if anything, people holding beliefs counter to the norm have probably thought more on them than people in the norm, because otherwise they'd just go with the crowd.

[goaded]

You could say the same thing about flat earthers, couldn't you? They've spent a lot of time thinking about the shape of the Earth, more than most people who were shown globes and maps growing up and accepted the truth, but they've come to the wrong conclusion.

Nobody should continue to hold a belief when that belief has been shown to be false.

[Robbey]

Sometimes, it is. However, one of the more toxic aspects of American culture is the sad, stupid assumption that people who have different politics, have those politics because they are stupid (or because they Hate X, Y, Z). It’s a real shame.

[goaded]

So many opinions by people who've blocked me on this question! C:

There are probably some that are amenable to evidence and logic, but you don't see a lot of that on here.

[goaded]

Current conversations:
* Roe didn't establish a woman's right to an abortion.
* 2024's economy will be the worst since 1929
* Nobody cares about Trump's attempt to steal the presidency
* Republican lawmakers are as likely to make the Earth flat as to pass a federal law outlawing abortion

[goaded]

"Bullshit. Show me one person in the 1940s that said Hitler was "leftist".
...
@goaded i’m sorry you don’t seem to understand how an argument works, you don’t just get to repeat a previous statement that I’ve already defeated when you don’t have an answer for a subsequent one. Thanks for playing"

[Snsl153]

I would ask them to explain what they meant by the term "right-winger". What does it mean? To the "right" of what?

[MikeInHawaii]

I’d tell them what the Dunning Krueger Effect is.

[SmokinAces2000]

I agree