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Hmmm. I think it is potentially very off-putting to use phrases like "you're angry at...", and "you've been taught...' It smacks of us telling them what they think and has that very quality of knowingness that these folks find such a turn off. I think we could turn to cult de programmers for advice on how to approach them
The right-wing media has killed two birds with one stone. Using woke they've simultaneously kept the Right frothing at their mouth and kept the Left distracted fighting fights that are utterly meaningless in the grand scheme of things.
The left likes to fight about definitions and distinctions. Rather than trying to unite under the lowest common denominators - which we all generally agree on. However, modern upbringing incentivizes being a statue.
You are good in your lack of action, because all actions have negative reactions. So by doing nothing, you are morally correct by guarantee. So how can the status quo change?
Personally I want to identify the lowest common denominators. Then again what human hasn't. What is evil? What is good?
In capitalism, it has been hard to find what truly sparked the instability. Greed is always blamed but greed is a basic human necesity for survival, it itself cannot inherently be evil.
So I have determined oil once more, for what other shape shifter enters your home, vehicle, and body? Darkness beyond that of the abyss, yet it comes in every color and form.
Final Fantasy 7 and X-Files did amazing at representing this. Global warming, microplastics, pollution, smog, etc. It's all covered.
Wait. What? You're saying the problem is...oil? Like, the reason for the current state of affairs in this country - and a few others...?
America has a stereotype of invading other countries over what?
Yes, it is a crutch abused. It essentially sped up the process of capitalism by facilatating printing. While also being useful for fuel and other fun experiments.
Plastic, a synthetic material is actively replacing lots of things we would make of organic resources. However by using plastic they can reach wider margins, lower travel costs and make products shittier.
It was a huge convenience for equating the quality of life disparity however, in my opinion, this is where life turned. It used to be a tool for light and other miscellaneous properties. However it has grown, molded, and shown how horrifying it can be with human assistance. It is why there's little plastic particulate in our bloodstream now. Where will it go?
Money is governed by oil.
So in turn, oil controls you.
You are wrong about greed. Greed is learned behavior and is not intrinsic to real human nature. Capitalism is not natural and is what has accelerated this greedy need in human society because our very existence is predicated upon it. Take away capitalism and instill an egalitarian system, and greed would disappear.
No, greed is intrinsict to nature. Everything that is alive is fighting to survive and take from others to provide for itself.
You talk purely hypothetical, because it is in no way feasible to just swap out the circumstances. We have to progress to such a goal. In the time you reach your goal, life has moved on to better things.
It is beneficial and convenient for humans to be able to convert their work hours into transactional value. However currency itself is a flawed concept that constantly needs spdculation to be absolute. It's why AI is a danger, it can observe the speculative price of things and update them in real time.
I think the bigger issue is that corporations are replacing families intentionally.
Personally I'd rather the popular left stops constantly bowing and scraping to these asshats for the slimmest opportunity to drag them kicking and screaming into the 21st century while they resist at every opportunity and instead focuses on building bridges with like minded people who don't have to be convinced that black people and trans women are human. We are long past the point where that was viable.
MAGA is constantly treated as if they're lost little lambs with no agency of their own and just have to be convinced into doing the right thing as if they didn't make those choices themselves with their whole chest. They watched a billionaire do a Nazi salute on live television and they cheered for him. They have told us what they are. Believe them.
We tried. They didn't want to know. Fuck them.
It doesn't matter what we'd rather. We need them.
Who's "we"? They want people like me dead.
Hot take: this applies to the left side of the spectrum as well.
Liberals are angry at conservatives because of all of the above and lash out at them - online, on family dinners, ... - and become an equal part of the culture war, instead of fighting the evil that's causing it all.
No... The left "lashing out" about things like trans issues is about literally allowing people to exist as they are. The left "lashing out" on the right about the economy is because Republican presidents have historically been much worse than Democrat presidents in this regard (this is relatively common knowledge, but I could find a source if needed). Etc.
In fact, the first one doesn't even fit your model as Democrats do not single out "others" to target.
I'm so tired of this false equivalency. The outrage may look similar at a surface level, but only on one side is it completely (objectively) justified.
That's by design. One of the fundamental mechanisms of right wing rhetoric is DARVO. They turn it around to accuse you of being the aggressor.
The fact that the root comment has 20 upvotes for two days without rebuttal until your reply is an example of why lemmy is no better then reddit. Wtf is everyone smoking that you all don't have grasp of the basic rhetoric by now.
Some times I think it's all theater. Any and all of this opposition. How much of it is controlled opposition... Maybe it's just two goals on a field largely controlled by the same team. Whatever. I'm sure someone will be along shortly to aggressively tell me I'm a clinically insane leftist.
Absolutely.
Agreed.
I’m all for emphasising class war.
But this “culture war” also includes the human rights of trans people, disabled people, migrants, marginalised folk in general.
I think it’s dangerous to say it’s unimportant. Yes the purpose might be to distract us, but if we let the right win, we are letting them literally commit social murder against groups of people. This isn’t about whether a gay flag is allowed to go on the street. It’s about if a disabled person is allowed to request accommodations and therefore have a job instead of starving to death. It’s about if a trans person has the right to exist openly without being locked into and abused in a psych ward.
social murder
For now...
I think a lot of people overemphasize the importance of converting a MAGA enthusiast into an ally. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for accepting people who recognize the error of their ways. But there's realistically not much return to be had there. The important conversions are:
- Low-information Trump voters/casual supporters -> Anti-Trump
It's estimated that around 25% of people who voted for Trump in 2024 fall into this category. People who voted for Trump but don't consider themselves MAGA. These are the "price of eggs" voters. Maybe some gen z bros who wanted their crypto to go up and got convinced by right coded pod casters that Trump wasn't a monster. We want to convert them into voters that vote against MAGA or stay home.
- Anti-Trump observers -> Anti-Trump activists
All movements have people who are ideologically aligned but do not actively participate. It's no small thing for someone to decide that they want or need to take an active role.
- People who didn't vote -> Anti-trump voters
In a recent poll, 89% of people who didn't vote said they disapproved of Trump's job performance. The way to overcome their apathy and get them out to vote is to support candidates with progressive agendas that they feel will have a material impact on improving their lives. The "hey, at least we're better than those assholes" strategy might win Dems some races in the short term but long term success means actually bringing about positive economic change. This also means tapping into anti-establishment feelings that run deep within society.
All the arguments in the OP are true and are worth stating. They will help people with lower exposure to politics see the forest for the trees. However no one drinking the MAGA kool-aid is gonna say "Yeah this lib who is talking down to me, they're right and everything I believe is wrong".
You are absolutely right.
I don't know how we reach the non voters. This has been a problem since I've been alive. If everyone voted, the Republican party would cease to exist in two cycles. Their bullshit is deeply unpopular.
I hate to sound defeatist, it's just that I've been listening to "if only more people voted....," if only the old generation died.... "," if only young people got involved... " for over 4 decades and nothing has changed.
I also love OPs post, it's also 100% true, but again, those that need to hear it won't.
It's an argument for compulsory voting. Or at least giving everyone a day off on polling day, or having it at a weekend. So that won't happen.
So many democrats don’t understand how someone could possibly be stupid/blind enough to vote for Trump.
If those same people were switched at birth with the Republicans they look down on them they would probably be voting Republican.
It is always worth trying to understand where other people are coming from. If you didn’t have the education that you got, if you were raised in the environment they were raised in and heard the messages they heard and suffered through whatever types of challenges they suffered (instead of the ones you did) then you would have a different world view. You would. That is a fact.
I am surrounded by democrats and they all think republican voters are low class idiots. If I were a republican then why would I want to vote for a party of people who obviously think I’m a low class idiot?
Nah, I was raised Republican and just didn't buy into the obvious hate slop. This kind of political and ideological determinism is just as harmful. Stop making excuses for these people.
Do you feel like calling a whole group “these people” is a helpful approach?
