typical repuglican dogma

Accurate. But people need to be brave enough to embrace the truth even if they don’t like it. You can diplomatically say things like “I’m not so sure about that” and such without directly contradicting those people.

Exactly. My mom is lost to Trump. From the generation that told me not to jump off a bridge if my friends were, she has no independence from peer pressure. Just Boomer hypocrisy.

all opinions are ultimately inconsistent with reality in some way, indicating that they all do really originate from somewhere within ourselves

All reality is perceived, and people’s perception of reality can be stupid. Stupid perceptions lead to strong emotions based on stupid.

One of the reasons why it’s not as hilariously loserish as nihilistic as it sounds to say that in many ways havings friends is dumb.

It’s kind of going too far to make a point but probably not as far as lots of people would guess.

Oh you have a group of friends guess what you will now engage in the following behaviors at the prescribed times or else.

And we wonder why authenticity is so rare.

This is at least a decade (probably three or maybe four) out of date for the left.

Religion kinda killed this by the 90s.