• Goodeye8@piefed.social
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      If this is a plan to distract from the Epstein files I would consider that a successful plan because what is happening is fucking insane. This distraction would literally be hiding child rapists by killing children.

  • ameancow@lemmy.world
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    I challenge Lemmy users and everyone else, everywhere else I post, to please, please open up conversation with your maga uncle or neo-liberal parents.

    Do not be dumb and try to start an argument, don’t accuse, don’t talk about identity or race or gender or any other issue they’re already distracted with. Just ask if they think this is going to lower their groceries costs, their medical care, ask if they wanted a war with a country they can’t point to on a map (don’t say that) when they supported this administration, and if that’s going to guarantee their social security and investments. Ask if it’s “great again” yet.

    Just ask. Just make them work the question and answer out in their head, that’s your ONLY job, just plant the seed of asking how to connect these ideas, it doesn’t even matter if they get mad at you for asking, your job is to make them figure out ways to make this work in their head.

    Individually, you can’t usually reach these people, but if enough of us do this all at once, we can start looking at it sociologically, like fluids, like percentages. We can still turn this around broadly, and Trump starting a war his own political-capital base doesn’t want is how we get there so we can actually use this.

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      I definitely agree with asking questions first. I’ve tried to open by explaining how I see things in an effort to get folks to open up and share how they see them, and people are so used to that being an attempt to tell them to think something different they can kinda shut down and get defensive even just from that

      Try to get them talking and engage with them sincerely. If we want to fix the problems we have to do the work to build a bigger coalition

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    🎶 I’ve been through the desert
    with a man with no plan

    La, la, la, la, la, la 🎶

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    This is going to spiral out of control. The whole Middle East is going to suffer from this. How is Russia going to react? What are the domestic repercussions going to be during an election year?

    No love for the Ayatollah’s regime but this is a disaster. This admin has such limited forethought they will make the Bush admin look like geniuses in retrospect

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    As a pukestain he’ll never make it to be a shitstain. Repulsive is his middle name.