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Research Scientist, MIT

At their best, I think, the left prioritizes compassion & idealism, and the right prioritizes truth & pragmatism. Both sides are valuable in society. Unfortunately, both are too often captured by the extremes, and so we're rarely seeing the left or the right at their best.

Graham Wheeler

Group Engineering Manager, Python, Microsoft

7mo

And your evidence for claiming the right prioritizes truth is what, exactly?

Thomas W.

Customer Experience (CX) + Service Design + Strategy + Organizational Design + Journey Analyst + Journey Ops + Employee Experience (EX)

7mo

Google: ENANTIODROMIA

Which is worse - compassion with other people’s money or truth at other people’s expense?

Mountain Scott, MA, MS, MAT

Network Engineer (CCNP-in-training): CCNA | Pythonista | Comparative Educationalist | Former PhD Student in Beijing

7mo

Imagine saying that one side prioritizes truth without it being an obvious slant against the opposing side

Rebecca Rutschmann

🧠 AI Coaching Consultant, Trainer & Speaker | 🌈 Transformative Prompt Design | ❤️ Humanist by heart

7mo

That’s why it is good to have more variety than just left and right, it is the middle ground that counts in the end 😇. When there is only two a system is prone to extremes.

Hank Schenker

Adult Education Instructor at Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation

7mo

The right prioritizes truth? Do you have an historical example of this?

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7mo

"the right prioritizes truth"? that's pretty new to me... how come?

Carlos Suarez

Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company | Mathematician and Computer Scientist | Advanced Analytics & Generative AI

7mo

Sure, but realistically speaking the left prioritizes compassion and idealism only when it is directed towards the ones feeling victims of the current state and buying into the propaganda - they don’t seem too accepting of anyone else. Also, being honest and pragmatic and being compassionate are not exclusive to each other

(Gleyson Garbulha) .

CEO Technology Innovator by Environment against Wars

7mo

A direita só fala verdade verdade rsrsrsrsrsrsrsr a direita você deveria trabahar no circo. Se vc está falando do Brasil direita demonstra a verdade de cada 10 palavras ditas por eles 9 ela mentiras, isso mostra o quanto você é esperto e sem cárter, desumano e condizente com um genocida, batedor de carteiras, líder facção criminosa no brasil envolve trafego de drogas utilizando avios brasileiros foi pego na Espanha,  o maior desvio de dinheiro da história  desde a independência do Brasil um desgovernou e matou pessoas, roubou subornou e queria implantar, não tem mais como tampar o sol com a peneira, fascistas como você que disseminam a mentira estão perdendo credibilidade você eu não sou qualquer otario, agora fico impressionado como vocês hipnotizam os mais inocentes a ponto de se matarem perderem tudo que tem irem preso por um cara que nem homem não é capela reencarnado.

Kathryn Ross, MBA, PMP

Data Center Portfolio Strategy & Planning, Energy and Location Strategy at Google

7mo

Binary thinking is a fool's errand. Pragmatic optimism and consideration of long term, big picture thinking for a sustainable future are guiding principles that take us back to our center. Unfortunately, propagandized media has pulled us into a high intensity binary construct that prevents us from living our collective best lives.

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