Before I pulled my nephew out of his right wing spiral, we spent many a conversation in which he tried to explain why government wasn't needed and I then explained how everything was intertwined and he couldn't do without. I think a lot of right wingers are about to learn stuff - ThreadSky

daveanthony.bsky.social • 36 days ago

Before I pulled my nephew out of his right wing spiral, we spent many a conversation in which he tried to explain why government wasn't needed and I then explained how everything was intertwined and he couldn't do without. I think a lot of right wingers are about to learn stuff

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zhozers.bsky.social•36 days ago

Can't wait to see how Democrats blame leftists for all of it.

dg4prez.bsky.social•36 days ago

Could I give you my dad's number?

bullsharkowski.bsky.social•36 days ago

Literally what I came here to say.

augustusleopol.bsky.social•36 days ago

As a fed, learning how many are surprised what is happening is scary. My programs are impacted.

stanabrams.bsky.social•36 days ago

They will only learn if there are negative consequences to their immediate family (aka having a Cheney moment).

dangamo.bsky.social•36 days ago

I’m going to do my best to not rub it in, answer their questions, say I’m sorry this is happening, just shrug with a smile, you know I didn’t ask for this … you fucked your grandchildren -enjoy the rest of your time( I think saying “life”makes them think they’ll live forever)

insortediaboli.bsky.social•36 days ago

My brother once attempted to outline how private roads would work and he was continually flummoxed when I kept asking “but what if one party decided his road wasn’t for anyone to use anymore “ and he could never get past that stumbling block

daveanthony.bsky.social•36 days ago

lol

flexipro.bsky.social•36 days ago

My parents have a cottage on a private road. The locals got tired of cars driving too fast and made speed bumps. They are massive and all but act as roadblocks. People cannot be trusted to be anything approaching reasonable when they have too much autonomy.

bdcooper.bsky.social•36 days ago

history says no, they never learn a damn thing

nurserexy.bsky.social•36 days ago

I have been registering to the pod from the (almost) beginning bc yall radicalized me once and I need yall to remind me we’ve always been fucked.

daveanthony.bsky.social•36 days ago

I mean, there are ups and downs and levels of fucked. We are headed down. But this all might cause some awakening....

doomwho.com•36 days ago

This is the only real hope I have at this point

becwithak.bsky.social•36 days ago

This has been the only thing in my mind I see as the begging of an out for the US. Scar loses control of the hyenas because the effects reach them for once, at least in a manner that they can see.

nurserexy.bsky.social•36 days ago

This is supposed to say relistening

ddubyab.bsky.social•36 days ago

Good on you for pulling him off the ledge. Not telling you anything you don’t already know but that’s a hard thing to do.

flexipro.bsky.social•36 days ago

I would have been fascinated to listen to these conversations.

majesticstag.bsky.social•35 days ago

Everyday has been a battle between my horror and my schadenfreude.

kenblair.bsky.social•36 days ago

that's cute. I don't think many of them are big learners.

donbrando.bsky.social•36 days ago

Will they have ideology changing moments of realization though? How do you break through daily repetitive propaganda? I've watched some of what James O'Brien does on LBC which is question and make them explain to try to combat it logically but I don't know that it changes minds effectively.

catladybel.bsky.social•36 days ago

A lot of us are going to need to brush up on our cult deprogramming skills.

robertsilverman.bsky.social•36 days ago

I keep checking my fash lists on Twitter to see if they're even paying attention to this. They're not. They're mad about Anthony Mackie saying rude things about America while having the temerity to Play Cap'n America While Black.

I worry that learning won't be possible in a closed epistemic system

daveanthony.bsky.social•36 days ago

It's all fine til you can't eat. And being online in a bubble doesn't matter when you can't get your needs met.

robertsilverman.bsky.social•36 days ago

I hear you, but that requires hearing from someone, somewhere that the reason they can't eat isn't, in fact, a brown person or Jewish person or trans person, which this admin and their horde of flying monkeys will scream from the mountaintops

kaijukoopa.bsky.social•36 days ago

Good on you Dave for saving your nephew.

charltonlack.bsky.social•36 days ago

"The heroin needle practically fell out of my arm. 'What kind of monster would do something like that?'"

gt4pete.bsky.social•35 days ago

Just conceiving of the government resources required for what happened solely on the day they were born. It's a stunning lack of curiosity.

"I was born at home"
"Oh really? Did the midwife just appear out of thin air and then vanish into the night on a flying broom?"

tracidegerman.bsky.social•36 days ago

You can always tell who is unfamiliar with The Tragedy of the Commons: those who see no need for government, and resent its role in ensuring that the well-being of the many is not jeopardized by individual self-interest. People ought to reacquaint themselves with the concept, since we are living it.

inn3rpanda.bsky.social•36 days ago

Every single libertarian utopia has failed

You can’t bootstrap a society

acidmichaelstemple.bsky.social•36 days ago

It's very tough to get people to see the difference between *this* government and *any* government

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