Hi Fester,

As I keep saying - we have more that unites us than
divides us.

Believe me.

Kudos Armchair Critic.

Hi AC,

I think the one thing we can do against the silliness is to be courteous to one another. People will always have a range of views on subjects, but I believe that there is much more to be gained by a reasoned discussion of ideas rather than being abusive and behaving like the inquisition. Places like this can be good or bad, but the highlight for me is to have courteous discussions and learn learn why others think as they do.

Cheers

The neo-Nazi's were on the march again on Sunday. Many travelled from interstate to take part in a "Nuremberg Rally" in Sydney. Unlike his Liberal predecessor Perrottet who was known to dress in Nazi uniform, Labor's Chris Minns is tough on this type of behaviour, Minns has said the names of these thugs will be made public, that's other than those already known to police through their long criminal history.

Hi Fester,
"I think the one thing we can do against the silliness is to be courteous to one another."

It would be nice if that worked, in a normal world it might.
I think in some ways this would just be giving consent to silliness.
These people will not argue with you or let you win, even if all your arguments are well-founded.
- Which is a good way of demonstrating 'religion' status.
'I'm right, because I believe'

I'm not even saying that many of the wokes arguments don't have some basis, sometimes they do, but they blow everything out of proportion to lunatic levels.

Me personally, I'm wired to call out stupid.
If I see someone doing something stupid, I have a kind of responsibility to say it's stupid, at a bare minimum.

If we don't call out stupid ideas as being stupid, then stupid becomes the norm, and the next thing we know the clowns are running the circus
...and here we are.

And who are these lunatics, probably mostly disgruntled single mum white women in their mid 30's, and maybe their pathetic grovelling 'white knight' men (If you can call them that).
These women's lives have little purpose other than to cling on to some movement greater than themselves so they can feel like they are a part of something, that their meaningless lives have some meaning and purpose.

They are not happy, well to do, successful people.
They're disgruntled directionless people living one step above the gutter, who want to point the finger at everyone else and tear everyone else's world down so they feel better about themselves.
They're unhappy people trying to virtue signal their way to 'self-acceptance' of their own miserable mundane lives.
They don't get to hold the rest of us accountable for their misery.

The woke are non-violent terrorists.
(sometimes they are not non-violent)

Fester

I can't say that I've noticed anything being achieved here via 'reasoned discussion' or arguments. This is a site to express opinions that people don't get to express in the real world. I can't see posters expressing their opinions face-to-face. I'm damn sure I wouldn't want to come into contact with, or chat with, very many of the people posting here, just in case they weren't gutless wonders hiding behind a computer; not without an armed guard, anyway.

Treat OLO as an outlet. If you want to "achieve" anything, you will have to go public. To avoid abuse and bullying here is easy. Don't read crap by people who are never going to change their minds - just as you and I are never going to change our minds. It's a psychological fact that humans don't change their minds after a certain age; and all of us here are way beyond that age.