1. Even dickheads love their dogs. Find a way to connect to those you disagree with. “The obvious mistakes of those who find themselves in opposition are to break off relations with those who disagree with you,” texts Vera Krichevskaya, the co-founder of TV Rain, Russia’s last independent TV station. “You cannot allow anger and narrow your circle.”

  2. Pay in cash. Ask yourself what an international drug trafficker would do, and do that.

He’s thinking about flying a SpaceX rocket to Mars and raping and pillaging its rare earth minerals before anyone else can get there. We need a 30-year road map out of this.

  1. Take the piss. Humour is a weapon. Any man who feels the need to build a rocket is not overconfident about his masculinity. Work with that.

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    All those down votes are what you get for trying to bring any logic and thought to the discourse. And we thought Lemmy would be better than Reddit, eh?

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      It was to be expected. Downvotes simply mean people don’t like what I’m saying - not that it’s wrong. I say what I believe to be true even when I know it’s unpopular. I just can’t help but to call people out when they make generalized absolute statements like that. I don’t even like Trump but I also seem to be missing the gene or whatever that makes so many absolute lose their minds over him to the point they can’t even think straight anymore.

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      The topic has been debated to death. There’s no logic, nor original thought here. Just more obstinate baiting for BS roundabout arguments that keep going in circles, and never engaged in good faith.

      I wish you people would grow TF up, but we all know you never will.

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          Oh it’s definitely a right-wing thing but I wouldn’t exactly blame Trump for all of it. He even got booed at his own rally for telling people to get vaccinated.

          In a context where you know this was after a relatively long period of him not doing that.

          It’s disingenuous to the point of bad faith to present that as a bolstering remark (with no context until someone called you on it) to reduce accountability.

          This reply was also in response to someone using masks and vaccines as conversation points, you responded to this by citing an event out of context and completely ignoring the mention of masks.

          Downvotes simply mean people don’t like what I’m saying - not that it’s wrong

          Also incorrect, they can dislike what you are saying and it can also be wrong, they aren’t mutually exclusive.

          Given the quality of your other responses i’d assume you know this (though i could be incorrect), so presenting it as a fact is either an oversight or intentional.

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            In a context where you know this was after a relatively long period of him not doing that.

            I don’t agree with this. Operation warp speed was Trump’s project. When it comes to COVID, I feel like he was pro-vaccine since the beginning. Back then it was also the democrats who were expressing scepticism about the safety of it because they didn’t trust Trump and felt like the vaccine was rushed and not properly tested.

            they can dislike what you are saying and it can also be wrong, they aren’t mutually exclusive.

            Sure, but what I mean is that simply being downvoted doesn’t alone mean the information is incorrect and the opposite is true as well; there’s comments in this tread with false info that’s being upvoted.