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Interesting point. Here in the UK we tried providing fact checked information to everyone during Brexit. Look how that turned out.
I've come to the conclusion that i need to give up and let the right wingers be right wingers. That leaves one the option to feel superior, especially when those voting further right are clearly ignoring the facts, and can't claim they don't know about them.
The folks who have and will be profiting from brexit spent quite a bit of money convincing folks to vote against their best interests and leave. How can providing "boring" facts an interested party must search for be nearly as effective as an advert if they never become interested? Of course it cannot be as effective.
For our part it's fine to feel superior cuz it's a natural and necessary human emotion, but putting that frustration online like this is leaning into it. It feels nasty to me, and it makes me think of the low, the lowest quality comments i have seen in right wing spaces.
This meandering reply's only point is to say if we really want to dehumanize the opposition we had better take a fucking hard look at what that means and why
They were literally posted through people's doors.
Is your purpose to complain with me about humanities foibles or are you arguing against the point that stupid slogans and adverts on busses are more effective at manipulating people?
The latter would be an interesting conversation for sure, the former? Sure i agree it sucks but that's the way the world works right now. If it wasnt effective they're wouldn't be billions of dollars spent doing it.
My point is that people can be easily manipulated, a point you agree with. Taking it one step further, getting mad at millions of morons is useless! Useless to you i mean. It's very useful to the people doing the manipulating. It is such a useful thing, such a useful trick, for those whose jobs are to manipulate public opinion, that countless dollars are spent doing so. Of course, if they could, they would want to separate a large class of people whose only power is their numbers, right? Wouldn't that make sense? How, if they could, would they go about it?
Indeed, are you sure you haven't been manipulated into misplacing your anger? Regardless, focus your ire at the ones who stand to gain by ripping your country and people apart.