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The climate can’t afford another Trump presidency. His approach to the environment: ignore it
(www.theatlantic.com)
this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2024
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They already have a choice. And they’re not coming around. Fuck being friendly. They want their asses kissed for threatening to take the ball and go home?
Democracy is at state. You do what you have to to keep it alive, THEN fix things. Maybe this’ll teach them that you need to do more than just whine online about things that you barely ever understood to begin with and be an active part of democracy.
Becasue It takes a lot more than simply bitching online every election year.
You can decide for yourself, of course, whether being friendly and listening is more or less effective than lecturing, but it sounds like you're choosing not to pick the best of bad options, but just let it burn, to show people who think differently from you how wrong they are. This could be described as:
They want their asses kisesd. Show me an example of when this has ever netted positive results?
They chose to hold democracy hostage over a single issue and you suggest we sit down and reason with them? I’ve tried. SO many times. They won’t listen.
They’re like Trump supporters at this point. Ridicule is what they deserve. The damage has already been done. Fuck them.
I get it. I'm frustrated, too. I've tried so many times, too. If you think that somebody can't be swayed, then it's probably best not to waste time on them at all, but think about the other people - the ones watching the conversation play out, who may never say a word - what will move them? Sometimes, I do think being confrontational and telling someone off can be the best option, because other people are watching, and it's what they see that matters. Other times, for the same reason, it's not a good choice. And sometimes I just get mad and I say what I say, even though it might be doing more harm than good. And still other times, I don't say anything at all, because I don't know how to say something useful. It sucks. Giving a shit really sucks sometimes.
I try to remember how Hillary Clinton said "basket of deplorables", absolute political malpractice, that was. When you give someone a choice between thinking of themselves as being bad, and thinking of you as being wrong, they'll always make the same decision.
Nope. Fuck them. Like Trump’s minions, They’re far too ignorant to be swayed. They don’t know what they’re doing and they’re too stubborn to listen.
So… they absolutely need to be ridiculed for willingly fucking over their own country.