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Simply Being “Against” The “Other Side” Doesn’t Mean You Have A Position Either

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Ted Bauer
4 min readMar 14, 2023

The picture I picked for this post was admittedly a little charged. Apologies therein.

Let me take this from two sides. It seems like everything gets caught up in ideology wars these days, no? Of course not “everything” does, but it feels that way. And now we see that hyper-partisan politicians get 315% more media coverage, which I think we all intrinsically probably understood (assuming anyone still follows “politics” anymore vs. watching dudes on Twitch):

So let’s consider one or two issues here. Let’s start with the Silicon Valley Bank fallout, which is some huge partisan thing now (of course) even though it really impacts these sectors:

  • People who had money in the bank
  • Employees of those who used the bank for payroll
  • The bank owners and employees
  • The government in a general sense (trust)
  • Maybe a few other private wealth clients who want…

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Ted Bauer
Ted Bauer

Written by Ted Bauer

I write about a lot of different topics, from work to masculinity to relationships and social dynamics, I.e. modern friendship. Pleasure to be here.

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