The way I would phrase it is that the best way to recruit people is to try to be the kind of person other people want to be. And when the good guys present as neurotic messes and the bad guys sell themselves as unstoppable ubermensch, Not Good things become more likely.
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“So you’re saying we have to be nice to people in order to stop people from becoming fascists? You’re saying that’s our fault if they become fascists?” I mean, no, I’m saying something substantially more nuanced, but if that was factually the case then yes obviously you should be nice to people
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I only give up on friends and family when they stop trying to be better. Like getting away from acoholism and such. It's the struggle that matters, not whether you succeed on the first or the 100th attempt.
Did we forget everything we learned about psychology through the entire 20th century?
(Look, I make an exception for J. D. Vance and Stephen Miller. I never claimed to be a saint.)
Hate it, run from it, but you can't escape the need to persuade.