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do you wanna stop fascism? want to see trump and elon musk lose power?
working class solidarity is the first step
our entire lives, we’ve been tricked and manipulated into fighting among ourselves, because they know if we worked together, we would be able to take them down.
why do you think, every time that something bad happens, there’s all the media spin about who we should blame?
they love to do this for age, think about all the boomers vs. gen X vs. gen Z articles and social media posts you’ve seen
but they do the same shit all the time with different things. their aim is to split the working class into as many splinter groups as possible.
we need to stop letting the assholes in power divide us like this.
unfortunately, that means extending solidarity to people who haven’t earned it, including people who chose to vote for Trump.
most of these people were tricked and manipulated. many of them have been fed a steady diet of misinformation. many of them are proud, insufferable bigots.
but being smugly superior, insulting, rude or intolerant isn’t how we change people’s minds. the best way to do that is by having a two-way conversation.
we are all so busy yelling at eachother. it doesn’t work. we need solidarity.
Man I hate to tell you this, but here's how that's going to go.
"You want my help dismantling the Trump regime and the oligarchy? Ok, I'll help, but only if you agree to criminalize being gay, trans, black, or brown."
"Good, so first step- wait, what's that? A LIMITED EDITION TRUMP 2028 HAT??? Sign me the fuck up!"
"Then get fucked shitlib, I'm calling ICE and telling them to fuck you up."
"See, you get it! The globalist Jews..." He carries on and you pretend not to listen. "But when I become a billionaire, I'm gonna do it right!"
Yeah, that's how the first few conversations tend to go. Then some time later, can be weeks or months later, they notice something that resonates with something you said to them, and it's the first crack in their absolute belief in their world view.
people rarely, if ever, change their views from a single interaction, but they can change, and all it takes is for us to hold back our impulses to rub their noses in the mud and the time/patience it takes for us to show them an alternative in a way that they don't immediately reject.
with trump, the epstein stuff, and affordability crisis, right wing ideology has never been more exposed and vulnerable in my entire life.
Can you tell them to “hold back [their] impulses” from going door to door and shooting us in the face, pretty please?
You’re too nice for this time, ay. I have a heap of admiration for your viewpoint.
Unfortunately, here, it’s naive. Very few change, it’s never by ‘reaching out’ and it’s only ever driven from within themselves.
The truth is, it’s not worth seeking the few out, because the movement is vast and abhorrent and like what’s been pointed out, it only understands ne language.
I’m actually not interested in beating it out of them, I prefer to disregard, defend against them if necessary then apply accountability as per damage done, once they no longer hold power. I guess that’s why I admire your kindness because quite frankly I’d be a bit more ruthless in sentencing than a persuasive hiding.