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An Anonymous Coward writes:

Glenn Beck and Samantha Bee [youtube.com]

Bridging the gap between left and right. I came across this clip and thought that this SN story / comment thread should be stickied till the new year so we have an ongoing conversation. It's a short clip from her show where Glenn Beck is a willing guest, the key point is they are trying to find common ground. Beck points out that Bee is following some of his own patterns of crying "catastrophe" but they really don't provide much insight beyond the significance of their little coming together moment.

The divide is clear and present on this site as most everywhere else, I would like to see a meta discussion where we fact check each other and drill down through the rhetoric till we get some straight forward lists and proposals on how we can move forward together. What are the fundamental blockers? Which ideas do we consider to be too outrageous for credibility? We're all guilty of attacking each other, can we try and Spock it out for about a week?

I'll start us off with my supposition: climate change is real and human activity has an important affect on it. We must agree on this point in order to move forward, and social/economic issues must be handled after needed environmental changes.

If you post as AC try and behave as if you were logged in, reduce the flames for better quality discussion.

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