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We need to talk about both of them, not neither

You want constant ideological battles to end, and the answer is... do nothing?

They have the megaphone. If you want to take it away, we have to talk to each other about it so they start marginalizing their posts and opinions. MAGA is the poster child for the Overton shift, it's not going back any amount without effort

You'll need to understand that <blatantly political actor does stupid thing> is a criticism of the actor's stupidity, not the political faction.

If it consistently happens more often for any given political faction, then it's still not an ideological statement, just a realization that not every political direction has an equal commitment to facts and reality.

So, mostly, I'd like the alt-stupids to not take over.

As far as everyone on the planet is aware, the alt-left doesn't want to murder people.