It’s just incredible how consistent views are under the western propaganda umbrella. Yeah, we’re pretty consistent too, but it’s weird seeing it from the outside. There’s no critique, there’s no self-reflection, there’s often no logic or perspective of any kind. They keep yelling “sovereignty” like it’s a magic word and they think it means something.
Unfortunately it’s also really boring. The same people with the same childish understanding and incurious diet of media saying the same things over and over and over and over. I wish more of our team would disengage. I’m certainly not getting any wiser going through these conversations on repeat and I don’t think anyone else is, either.
There’s always apologising and continuing in good faith if you judge it wrong at first, too. If they are talking in good faith, the apology will likely be well received (depending on how hard the dunk, maybe – or maybe it’s just the difference between a comic dunk and being rude; but I grew up around sardonic people so…), and a fruitful discussion can still happen.