Does anybody even pretend to think this is about fighting crime?
I have several Republicans in my circles that do, it’s surreal.
Time for a new circle
Just act like normal people and they’ll find their own circle eventually
Your enemy isn’t the other people of your class who are uneducated, ignorant and being manipulated.
Your enemy is the people who are educated, rich and intentionally manipulating the most ignorant people in our society.
I’m not saying you need to socialize with them, but recognize that the actual enemy is the people using billions of dollars to pour poisonous lies into the minds of the uneducated masses in order to grab as much power as possible.
People get too lost in dunking on MAGA voters that they don’t focus on the people making MAGA voters.
By “acting normal” i literally mean speaking plainly about everyday issues like the fascist takeover of our country, giant child sex trafficking coverups, abuse of military, etc. instead of pretending this is just “politics” and so we need to censor ourselves to avoid offending Trump supporters. They certainly don’t.
I’m not suggesting “dunking” on any Trump supporters in the group, but they will likely take it that way, and if they can’t maintain adult discussions about it they will run from the truth just like most of the MAGA supporters who still haven’t gotten a clue after 8 years of this. If they don’t though, maybe they aren’t so hopeless.
I don’t hate Trump supporters in general, but boy did they fuck this one up… If they feel bad when someone points that out i really don’t care
By “acting normal” i literally mean speaking plainly about everyday issues like the fascist takeover of our country, giant child sex trafficking coverups, abuse of military, etc. instead of pretending this is just “politics” and so we need to censor ourselves to avoid offending Trump supporters. They certainly don’t.
I agree with you completely. I’m not saying you have to avoid offending Trump supporters, if you speak the truth they are going to get angry.
I’m saying make sure you’re directing your anger at the people who are poisoning their information so that they live in an alternate reality.
I don’t hate Trump supporters in general, but boy did they fuck this one up… If they feel bad when someone points that out i really don’t care
Oh yes, the damage caused by people lacking media literacy and a basic education has been immense.
But, you don’t get mad at the sheep who are shitting in your yard, you get mad at the shepherds who pushed them there.
People trying to stir up intra-class conflict are part of the problem.
That the class traitors have been deceived doesn’t stop them from being your enemies as they actively support the regime.
Yeah, but the difference is that they are possibly redeemable, contrary to the elite pushing that crap.
- Elite that know what they’re doing? → Gulag → Forced work for the rest of their miserable life, IDGAF.
- Person who was manipulated in being an angry fascist through lies and fear? → rehabilitation → back to a happy life
Exactly.
I’m a leftist living in a rural southern area. I encounter these people every day. The vast majority of people have had their sources of information deliberately poisoned and their views are rational but they’re built on lies (which, again, are deliberately created to have this effect).
Yeah, there are definitely bigots and people who would support this crap even without the massive disinformation campaign. But, most of them are ignorant and being misled.
Those people can have their views changed if the firehose of bullshit is interrupted. This is impossible if you’re creating an environment where you’re attacking people who are redeemable.
Your enemy isn’t other poor people, your enemy is the elites who are deliberately poisoning people’s perception of the world in order to obtain power.
It feels good to write angry, self-righteous crap online and be showered with upvotes. But, choosing to target other people in your class is a tactical error.
Yes. The way this always works is through useful idiots. There’s a core group that knows it’s bullshit, but they want to use it to pursue some other agenda. They then filter talking points to their media contacts. Those people may or may not believe it, but their paycheck depends on convincing masses of people that it’s true.
The random MAGA guy on a Facebook post? He probably believes it. He’s two degrees removed from the people who don’t. The Enlightened Centrist who tries to mix both sides into a resemblance of an ideology is three degrees removed.
This is also why the only “journalism” outlets that aren’t financially struggling are conservative podcasters and YouTubers.
Release the Trump/Epstein files
Yeah. Take a look at common social media. It’s literally flooded again with right-wing BS justifying trump’s actions. Outright lies made over and over. There’s no way these aren’t paid troll farms doing this. The volume is overwhelming.
This is why Facebook banned me. I relentlessly reported people for hate speech and then started telling people that Jesus will likely spit them out when they go to heaven. They got triggered and mass reported my comments. Facebook is a shit hole of Ai accounts posting psychotic bullshit.
Just get off the service. Back up your pictures. Everything will be better once you’re gone.
All major cities are blue cities. The most dangerous cities are in red states because red state governments dont let blue cities run their cities without interference and beat them up to score political points. They want their cities to remain dangerous because harping on the cities for being dangerous is 85% of their political appeal to rural hicks
St Louis voted to legalize weed, for a $15/hr minimum wage and plenty of other things that would have drastically improved life for residents and reduced crime over a decade ago now. The state government took it away every time. More recently, the state government took control of the police department away from the city. All of this shit makes the city worse off, even though it has been steadily improving for the last decade in spite of the fuckery
Home rule should be a federal policy for all cities over a certain size
yeah it’s not about actually fighting crime. it’s to make the blue states understand how important it is for states to be independent from the federal government, i.e. “state’s rights” in other words. it has been a core demand from texas for 200 years, and now it’s finally coming true. though not because of trump’s direct executive order (which would probably be undone by the next dem president in office) but by making the blue states understand the very real danger if states don’t have independence.
What good is an independent state when the state is just as abusive. Ours is working to completely remove our ability to be represented in state government.
It’s not, but your vote counts for a larger percentage of state government than federal. You have a slightly greater chance of doing something about it
Nope. Our blue urban core is sliced 6 ways like a pie. Each slice extending far far into rural areas. Effectively taking away our ability to have any state representation. And they’re getting ready to soup it up further.
