I understand the frustration, but I'm just telling you that mocking and belittling those who got caught up in a MAGA information silo and have a chance of waking up is not just ineffective, it pushes them back.
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Yeah, it's hard to give a damn about these folks when on more than one occasion I've been told, despite not being Jewish, I should have been "gassed like the rest of the Jews".
Congratulations on escaping. I hope you're genuinely sorry for what you helped bring about, the first time.
Your contribution in 2016 has had a ripple effect we're still feeling today, where we're, without hyperbole, having to deal with as close to literal Nazis as possible without requiring they have been members of the NSDAP in Germany in the late 1930s.
If you are sincere, which I'm not confident of, yes, I've deeply regretted my ignorant vote, and have "paid my penance" by being an outspoken Never Trumper in a sea of MAGA, which has resulted in personal attacks and smears.
No, I don't think that you do understand the frustration. I was also on the right politically but removed myself from the RW silo quite some time ago. I've spent the last 25+ years talking to my former political allies[TEA partiers, MAGA] about disinfo that they've been marinaded in, to no avail.1/3
A large part of the problem that I had, and you appear to have, is approaching this as a rational problem instead of an emotional problem. Doing that never works.
There will be a day when accountability comes for those who tout accountability for me but not for thee. 2/3
After 25+ years of talking to them & failing to break thru, frustration is merely the forward face of realizing that in the end, when the day comes that the leopard eats their face, is the only day that will have an effect on them. 3/e
Know many stuck in the MAGA information silo who inundated with that messaging from family, friends, classmates, neighbors. Not saying you’re coming from that scenario but understand how it can take time to see the light —glad you did. There is strength in numbers. Welcome to the team ☮️
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Congratulations on escaping. I hope you're genuinely sorry for what you helped bring about, the first time.
Shouldn’t you be directing your energy to the people who are attacking & smearing you?
There will be a day when accountability comes for those who tout accountability for me but not for thee. 2/3
But it has been a long decade and... The below is far more persuasive to me , both of them encapsulating a lot.