Bob and Loose need to start hanging out

There are Americans who wonder why this big, diverse country should try to stay together. Wouldn’t it be better, they argue, for cosmopolitan cities and coastal Blue States to go one way, while Red America goes another way, with both jurisdictions moving closer to the culture a majority of their members prefer?

On college campuses, too, there are those who wish that there was less diversity of viewpoint and belief, and seek to “train” everyone in the views that they regard to be settled and enlightened. And almost all of us belong to at least one social network where our feeds are disproportionately composed of content produced by people who are a lot like us.

But for all the benefits of agreement, solidarity, and spending time with like-minded people, there is compelling evidence of a big cost: the likeminded make us more confident that we know everything and more set and extreme in our views. And that makes groups of like-minded people more prone to groupthink, more vulnerable to fallacies, and less circumspect and moderate in irreversible decisions they make.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:one of my jesus-freak, gun nut friends texts me all the time - I think he's bored out of his mind living out in the country.. honestly. Anyway, he's kinda fun because he's so ignorant about issues and regurgitates what he sees on the mainstream media that I don't even think he knows that I'm mocking him in my replies..

it's pretty funny.

anyway, Goose is a great Russian-American and I'd be happy to hang out with him in Mioscow some time.

Turtleneck wrote:

Robert J Sakimano wrote:one of my jesus-freak, gun nut friends texts me all the time - I think he's bored out of his mind living out in the country.. honestly. Anyway, he's kinda fun because he's so ignorant about issues and regurgitates what he sees on the mainstream media that I don't even think he knows that I'm mocking him in my replies..

it's pretty funny.

anyway, Goose is a great Russian-American and I'd be happy to hang out with him in Mioscow some time.

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Robert J Sakimano wrote:

Turtleneck wrote:

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Гоосе ис а греат Руссиан-Америцан анд Ижд лове то спенд тиме шитч чим ин Миоков.

Я напишу своему другу крепкий чай

Robert J Sakimano wrote:

Я напишу своему другу крепкий чай

I prefer coffee.

or, even better, beer.

Turtleneck wrote:

Robert J Sakimano wrote:I prefer coffee.

or, even better, beer.

Did he offer you raw milk?