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They’re only mad until their new software (propaganda) update is installed. It’s a recurring pattern. This kind of people are never in good faith. Ever.
Wild to me so many people have that view and just want to stop trying....
Do you even understand that's the propaganda the oligarchs push the hardest?
That the lines of division they created can never be erased, and we always have to fight along the lines they drew.
And that's not even getting how if we win in spite of your views being popular, were just siletting ourselves up to fall for it again because your hung up on them being unchangeable, and that almost always means we don't put enough resources into the next generation to prevent them from falling for the same shit
These people have been supportive of all the exclusively vile shit Trump has been spouting for at least a decade now & just another 1 random vile post is enough for them to have some sort of epiphany and coming clean moment? Like do you genuinely believe this? There’s no middle ground to be reached here.
This post in particular probably won't cause a wide swing in support, but it will cause a few people to reconsider past beliefs. This might get those people thinking if it was really OK to make fun of the attack on Pelosis husband, and then that might get them to reconsider how they look at Jan 6.
Rising grocery bills will flip more people than this, of course
I'm not saying that the people who change their minds now are good people (I don't think anyone thinks this) but we need everyone we can get (WITHOUT compromising our core values) when it comes to opposing trump. Every time he fucks up, we need to put the pressure on. Cult deprogramming is difficult, and can't be done for everyone, but it is possible.
There is only one person you are helping when you preach defeatism and give up early.