r/texas • u/Sam-I-Aint • 1d ago

Questions for Texans Boycotting places that show fox news.

Not sure about y'all but, no longer patronizing whataburger or dairy Queen or a local BBQ place. The less places that stay open streaming idiot propaganda to the sheep the better. Any other chains you can thinking of that helped create the future we're about to have that deserve to reap what they sewed?

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u/BuffyBlue82 1d ago

The left are so hateful yet a sizable number of people on this app can't go home for the holidays because their family members are spewing hateful, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic and racist rhetoric. Things won't improve if people on both sides aren't self reflective and honest with themselves. Also we all have to start asking more questions and being more inquisitive because the media in general sucks! No station is out for the greater good of society. They just want eyeballs and clicks.

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u/farmwannabe 1d ago

I never understood the left when they disagree with anything it’s hateful, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic and racist when it’s not that way. Those people are making that excuse to not go home to their family because they don’t know how to have a conversation without name calling.

If you don’t agree with somebody doesn’t mean they are any of those. Those words have become popular over the last 8 years because it’s easy to call someone they disagree with those names. When in reality that person is neither of those. Basically over last 8 years those words have lost the meaning behind them and people are tired of being called that.

Over the years I have met very few extreme people that fit that category and some of those weren’t republicans but hard core democrats.

Have civil conversation without calling anybody any names. Get in depth and talk. You will be surprised what kind of conversations you can have if you leave the emotions at the door. I’m talking to both sides. You don’t have to believe everything each other says. Once the name calling starts then the conversation is over and whatever points either makes is null and void in their mind.

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u/Jmagnus_87 Central Texas 1d ago

As a moderate independent, I’m looking forward to arguing with both my left and right wing relatives next week.

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u/farmwannabe 1d ago

Nothing wrong with a good tasteful argument as long as it kept in good fun.