• Optional@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    All that Republican screaming about voter fraud and stolen elections can’t quite hide the fact that most cases of actual fraud seem to come from Republicans.

    Libs, Dems, fellow Dudes - lend me your earpods. Dig this big crux: republiQans absolutely DO NOT respond to reasoned arguments. It’s been working like magic since the 1980’s.

    Let’s STOP pretending that we’re going to convince any republiQans of anything and understand and accept that they are seriously brainwashed cultists who can not get out of it (due to the brainwashing and the cult).

    Articles with this spin - “when will republiQans learn?” - are so aggravating because IT NEVER ENDS - it simply builds to a crescendo prior to the election, republiQans vote to destroy everything good again, and the cycle restarts.

    Trump SHOULD have broken this. It is OUR fault that he didn’t. Because we want discussion to work. We’re not fanatical crusaders constantly harping on people around us (or elected representatives), and we think reason and discussion should carry the day.

    It hasn’t for a very long time, and let’s now understand that it won’t.

    Let’s stop thinking our republiQan neighbors are going to figure anything out. Until their propaganda hypnosis is broken (and again, let’s not kid ourselves, it’s only getting stronger), we are ALONE out here in democracy.

    Justice, Environment, Healthcare, Education. They’re always going to try to destroy these things. Stop hoping. Start talking about events with a new perspective. The reasonable Republican - if it was ever a thing - is GONE. No new information will change them.

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      11 months ago

      We need to figure out to thrive despite them. Shitty people will always exist, now we should learn to better minimize their negative impact. Any plans to make the world a better place that involve convincing bad people that they should be good or require stupid people to be stop being stupid are doomed from the start. And for all I know, I’m one of the stupid ones.

      “Nobody should have that much power” “Nobody for President!” – Wavy Gravy

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      11 months ago

      I agree 100% with what you said, but they are in a cult fr. He uses cult techniques to win people over. I’ve said this before, but trump actually uses hypnosis techniques to get to people and we do have ways to counteract that. If people you know are listening to a speech of his, speed it up because you “want to hear the whole thing but are in a hurry.” Make fun of his weaknesses and trip ups and make sure the cultists do the same things you’re making fun of. There are ways.