Also true! Stopped clocks, etc.

Maybe you could be come one too

https://www.amazon.com/Never-Thought-That-Way-Conversations/...

correct - I've learnt different perspectives and expanded my way of thinking

and also learnt many many people do not bother with thinking, and just throw crap out - due to their immediate emotions

I'll bite

- the ability to explain why you think a certain way or did something (i.e. when you ask a child why they threw a glass they'll say "I don't know"

- the speed at which you learn/process new information

- the ability to understand your emotions and the level of control you have over them

- your willing to engage in debate

- how inquisitive you are

Someone who claims to hold a basic concept of something as straight forward as "free speech absolutist" and doesn't see the logical incoherence of proceeding to ban reporters and others who publish and aggregate publicly available information (@elonjet).

Just because somebody does something different than us doesn’t mean they are stupid, how ridiculous and reductive is that?

They might just be evil.

Is it necessary to believe anyone is "stupid" as a personality?

I just disagree with people's opinions on certain things. And if I frequently disagree with someone enough, then I just quietly stop paying any attention to what they say.

Perhaps not your intent, but you have hit on the entire social media mindset, distilled.

TV debate long ago decided that every complex human concern can be profitably reduced to a crass binary which can be argued about in front of a camera for the audience's thumbs up or down.

Social media democratised this decerebrate approach. A thumbs up or down from your tribe. Mastodon, Post.news et al only replicate the Twitter model.

It doesn't matter which platform PG, or anyone else, is on. They're all worthless distraction. Fiddling while Rome burns etc.