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Originally Posted by Pants
I think it started with news channels vying for advertising money and becoming massive echo chambers for their sides.
Social media is very easily manipulated by bad actors on the nation state level and it just poured a sea of gasoline on the fire.
Now we have this polarized stupidity with silly folks on both sides unable to have any independent thought. Our natural tribal tendencies do not help either.
It takes you out of your comfort zone to consider both sides of the coin and find good and bad aspects in each one.
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No shit there. We're arguably the dumbest developed nation in the world.