I actually avoid having political conversations at all, offline. I don't want to know what people think. Nor do I think I could persuade them of ANYTHING they don't already believe. - ThreadSky

prchovanec.bsky.social • 13 days ago

I actually avoid having political conversations at all, offline. I don't want to know what people think. Nor do I think I could persuade them of ANYTHING they don't already believe.

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ginnycham.bsky.social•13 days ago

You’re missing a lot of excellent opportunities for a good eye roll 🙄. Just kidding, me too.

bribleck.bsky.social•13 days ago

You can never persuade. Even if you have proof, and they agree with you, fifteen minutes later they’re back to it. At the level of exposure/involvement they’re pretty set.

prchovanec.bsky.social•13 days ago

Pointing out contradictions or inconsistencies, or appealing to prior beliefs, is fruitless. You "just don't get it." You "don't understand what's happening". Maybe you're a part of the corruption being unmasked and uprooted.

jeffreywuhl.bsky.social•13 days ago

This is how widespread violence/genocide happens I think

xinrtj.bsky.social•13 days ago

Really wonder if/how we come out of this.

nolajt.bsky.social•13 days ago

I was pretty vocal in Trump 1 - and would engage with anyone interested in engaging in good faith.

Then after COVID, he got more votes than before.

I then realized nothing mattered. And I just disengaged

mardanz.bsky.social•13 days ago

Isn't that a worrying sign of extraordinary intellectual powerlessness?

jennross.com•13 days ago

It’s so depressing. We can’t even agree on reality anymore, which makes it impossible to find common ground.

jallenkaiser.bsky.social•13 days ago

“It is far easier to bamboozle someone than it is to unbamboozle them by convincing them they’ve been bamboozled” - Mark Twain

Reason never guided their beliefs—but evidence no longer has any bearing on it either

The underpinning is entirely emotion—which is why propaganda so easily sways them now

justhangingout.bsky.social•13 days ago

It might not be so smart to allow enemy propaganda to flow freely into every citizen's home during a time of war.

desiderratum.bsky.social•13 days ago

There's a reason I tend to play dumb when politics rears its head IRL, unless I know my interlocutors fairly well (and sometimes even then...)

orthofirebrand.bsky.social•13 days ago

I avoid political conversations because I DON'T WANT TO FIND OUT SOMEONE IS A TRUMPER, and thus lose all respect for them. This is a moral issue, and people who voted for this mutant-from-hell-sprung-fully-formed-from-the-bowels-of-hell have no morals.

No matter how hard I try, I just can't.....

notthegodofhammers.bsky.social•13 days ago

fr, I used to be, if I'm honest, annoyingly argumentative about this stuff with friends and acquaintances. But these days, I just assume most people have their minds made up. I don't want to hear what dumbfuck coworker beliefs you hold, and I have 0 faith you'll change your mind either.

zoobeezoobee.bsky.social•13 days ago

Those are the best convos to have offline especially if you find an in…like affordable housing for lower income middle class.

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