tynach.bsky.social
Unemployed programmer who has studied color science to an unhealthy degree.
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So at the end of the day, when you have given your best shot at explaining and they continue to fail to understand, that's when your phrase applies. They've made their choice, move on and let them be.
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Mind you, I'm not saying to indulge trolls. But I think you'd be surprised at how many people who you think will never change their minds, but are just one explanation away from realizing their errors.
It's not always worth doing in the end, so you have to pick and choose your battles carefully.
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This level of apathy is what leads people into believing that you can't defend your beliefs or claims, and so therefore your beliefs and claims must be wrong.
If you're not willing to put the work into patiently explaining things to people who hate you, you're part of the problem.
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Looks kinda like a tortoiseshell cat.
If they're either, they're probably female.
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I don't know. I'm getting a few random followers here and there. I don't know if they're bots or not. They don't look quite the same as Twitter bots, but I don't really know if that matters much.
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0.24?
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Eventually, Ladybird will hopefully be a viable contender.
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TIL I've seen furry porn of Gnome's Gitlab.
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You said, and I quote, "Let them believe what they want. They've always believed it."
I am saying that no, that is not true. They have not always believed it. They were radicalized. Similarly, they can be de-radicalized.
You didn't say people never change at all. You said their beliefs don't.
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But the takeaway should also be that the opposite can happen: people can change their opinions for the better, just as they can change their opinions for the worse.
I'm sorry if your faith in humanity is that broken to believe people can never change. But that isn't my problem.
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Hey, there's a reason why my grandparents are not Trump supporters, but my parents are. And a reason why my parents, in 2014, said that they didn't trust Trump and would never vote for him.. And are now rock solid Trump supporters.
It sucks, but sometimes people change their opinions for the worse.
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If we took Trump's speeches, tweets, and other media, then sent them back in time to, say, 15 years in the past with the label, "This is the Republican party in 15 years," almost every Republican would be enraged at it and condemn the viewpoints expressed in them.
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When I say you're naive if you think nobody was radicalized into enabling these things, what I mean is that you're naive if you think every person who believes Trump's bullshit now, would have always believed it in the past.
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Uh, no. Maybe you didn't understand what I meant.
I'm saying they DID NOT always believe what they believe now. They were radicalized into believing new things that they DID NOT believe before. They're in their 60s, and the majority of their lives was NOT spent supporting fascism.
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It is my belief that we should strive to persuade people who were radicalized into becoming de-radicalized. Bring them back toward thinking the way they used to think. For some that will be easier than for others.
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When you say to 'let them think whatever they want', along with saying that they have always been around since the founding of America, you are technically saying two different things. But you are also strongly implying that the people in question have always thought the way they currently do.
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You're naive if you think nobody has been radicalized to enable all this nonsense. That was the entire point of Trump campaigning over the entire duration of his first presidency, and the entire point of being in Russia's pocket: to have enough influence to radicalize ordinary people.
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No. This includes my parents, who never would have supported Trump in the past, but have been slowly radicalized into becoming very pro-Trump. They get most of their news from a 'Christian News' source that just spouts Russian propaganda with a 'Christian' spin. Like saying democrats summon demons.
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While true, I think God's morals are a bit more.. Technical than that. Like, you could probably derive something like that from them, but those wouldn't be the words He uses.
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Without a confession from the puppeteers, the radicalized people won't fully realize that they'd been had. It's only by the people behind all this confessing, and then the puppets subsequently realizing THEY'D been had and confessing, that the people can be de-radicalized.
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All his followers won't go away when he does. He'll just be a martyr, and it'll push them further into their radicalism.
Trump is a useful idiot, used by a lot of people to get what they want. Those people will find a new useful idiot figurehead.
The puppeteers need to be weeded out and confess.