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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This is such a braindead take. Humanity is networked. You can cut a link, but you can't disconnect someone from yourself unless you yeet them out of existence

Drive them into bigot echo chambers and someone has to deal with them thinking everyone is secretly as bigoted as them

Respond in kind - if they're rational, defeat them with reason. If they're a dumbfuck, quote then and mock how stupid their words are. If they're a troll, counter troll them

And when they feel bad for saying bad things, offer an olive branch. Highlight the path back to being a respectable person

You don't need to be equipped to do it all - I'm personally good at counter trolling and reaching out to those already verbally beaten down

We all have to live with these people - we all have a have a responsibility to do our part. Give them the social rejection they deserve when they say unacceptable things - people who don't learn from logic learn emotionally, so make them feel bad. It's ok to attack those attacking others unfairly - just always leave a path back to acceptance

Kill them or rehabilitate them - those are the only options that fix the problem

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[+] [email protected] -16 points 2 months ago (15 children)

Is this kind of stupid rhetoric that sows the divide in US politics and it’s why places like Lemmy and Reddit are just echo chambers. Just saying people who have the opposite few are stupid and should be ignored does nothing to address their concerns and they still get a vote at the end of the day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Theres a few people who are arguing in bad faith whose sole intention is to stop people voting to boost the right wing.

If you check a lot of them, they're right wingers pretending temporarily to be left wing

I guarantee they're the same ones causing issues everywhere with everything from environmental policies to helping the lower class

And let's be blunt, they ignore absolutely everything except Israel because it's the only argument they have left.

And it's such a stupid hill to die on and to stop voting.

Because one candidate is causing a civil war, is a criminal, a rapist and is incredibly dangerous. He talks like a mob boss knowing the implications of his actions. One of them is stripping rights

Trump is advocating for Nazism within the US, and you have to understand it's a huge issue that is having world wide implications. His own people know he's dangerous.

That's why he's being ignored. They're often not centrist. They are simply a single issue voter who often lean towards the right wing actually (but don't want to say it)

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