I Used to Like You Until...: (How Binary Thinking Divides Us)

by Kat Timpf

believing that government power isn’t the best way to solve a problem does not equal not caring about the problem.

Once you pick a side or a lens, you no longer have to think, because all the thinking has been done for you.

Convincing voters that a vote for you is a vote against evil can be extremely motivating. If you believe it, when you go to vote, you’re not just a voter, you’re a warrior.

an analysis of the economic impacts of limiting the rise of the Earth’s temperature to 1.5 degrees by oft-cited climate economist Richard Tol found that the costs of doing so would outweigh any financial benefits, in terms of global annual GDP.

The people on the Left who treat the existence of a Right-leaning outlet as a uniquely and unconscionably awful abomination conveniently ignore how it came to be in the first place, which was as an antidote to the media’s heretofore largely liberal slant.

How can we preach and post about how much Mental Health Matters while also taking part in a society where so many people do define others by their mistakes?

Honestly, not enough people realize that sometimes becoming a person with a PhD is the result of being a person with little direction and a lot of family money.

“Think of the Children!” can radicalize and polarize people, whipping them into a fear-driven frenzy that leaves no room to stop and consider the implications of legislation.

Once you give the government vague, broad powers to control speech based on subjective criteria, any speech is up for silencing.

When anyone calls for a ban on hate speech, they’re assuming that the people in charge of that are going to have the exact same definition of what that means as they do.”

It’s a great opportunity for political power players to present themselves as heroes opposite their evil opponents.

I think when we hesitate to talk about the imperfections of loved ones who have died, we miss an opportunity to appreciate the flaws in the living.

The difference, of course, is that their ass-sitting is not a heroic act—no matter how much people seemed to act like it was during COVID.