• AbidanYre@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Did he actually learn anything or is he just going to vote for the next fascist with an R next to their name?

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      13 hours ago

      It’s very likely that they don’t learn what they aren’t thaught. You don’t teach anything if there is no contact, and moments like this are opportunities for contact.

      Yesyes, I get it, it’s not your job to teach them. The issue is though that nobody else will, except of course propagandists on the right who are happy to teach them.

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        5 hours ago

        Here’s the thing though the entire internet is available for them to learn things themselves. It shouldn’t be our job to teach them anything.

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          If we want the world to be a better place than it absolutely is our job. Conservatives see it as a job to brainwash and create propaganda.

          We should see it as a job to bring these people back from the edge, and to reintegrate them with society. Ignoring them, and blaming them, will continue to make the problem worse.

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            4 hours ago

            When an entire segment of the population that are maga nutso Christian nationalist want me to not even exist, no it’s not my job. It’s not my job at all to educate fully formed adult humans who have the breath of all information of the entire world at their fingertips but they refuse to expand their minds and use it.

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              The cycle will continue then, and nothing will ever get better. You can’t hope for things to get better without also putting the work forward to make those changes.

              You want them to think you should exist? Then emotionally appeal to them and remind them that you’re a person. This only really works on the ones you know anyways, but if no one ever steps up to teach them, then you can’t expect them to ever change.