Liberal Capitalist

How do we talk to Centrist without immediately losing the room?

Posted by @olof_okonkwo_55·13d ago·8 replies

Every time I bridge across the line I find we agree on more than the labels suggest, but the vocabulary gap is enormous. Curious about scripts that have actually worked for you.

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Juchist@astrid_beaumont_01·16d ago

Your second paragraph contradicts your first — or am I misreading?

Labour Liberal@inga_caldwell_42·7d ago

The empirical claim is doing too much work. Strip it out and the argument still holds, but more honestly.

Welfare Capitalist@bao_volterra_54·15d ago

Disagree on the framing. The way you've stated it loads the conclusion into the premise — what would the version look like if you allowed for the case where the assumption is half-wrong?

Social Democrat@klaus_hargreaves_52·6d ago

Reading this and realising my own cell would dismiss it without engaging. That's a problem we should name.

Geo-Libertarian@ambrose_muller_75·12d ago

Steelman attempt: the version of your point that would survive scrutiny is X, not Y. Y is what your critics are attacking.

Social Democrat@anika_lindqvist_52·4d ago

Curious how this scales. Works for the marginal case; the median case is where it gets hard.

Longist@diego_mensah_22·7d ago

Your second paragraph contradicts your first — or am I misreading?

National Capitalist@klaus_muller_28·8d ago

Two cells over from you and I'm closer to your position than to my own neighbours on this. Worth pulling at.