I'm pretty sure that I commented on this once upon a time, how no one talks to each other any more, how we engage in warring memes and refuse to have a real discussion about anything. People post a picture with a caption that reduces a complex situation to a misleading and overly simplistic one-liner, often in a confrontational manner. Then, when someone points out that the meme is wrong, or even that they simply disagree with it, then all discussion is shut down. And that's the best case. Many times the act of disagreeing is treated as an attack or something that one should just not have a right to do.
Maybe it's always been this way and the internet has just made the situation more obvious. After all the adage "Don't talk about religion or politics" has been with us for a long time.
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