He’ll be voted in but always remember the people voting him in are uneducated bumpkins that can’t do think for themselves and just blindly repeat what they’re told to.
You know that might be most Canadians in the upcoming election, right? Do you really think to moment you leave Toronto or whatever people become toothless inbreds?
I’m not in this picture at all, by the way. Like the rest of Lemmy I dread PP. Exaggerated stereotypes serve nobody well.
What good does that do anyone? People looking down on one another and hating each other is a large part of the problem when it comes to voter misinformation.
Yeah, that’s probably correct… but what the hell kind of a solution are we supposed to be looking for? Reason is being lost on them, and it becomes increasingly exhausting to try and convince them to not believe in something they want to believe in.
Maybe it doesn’t do anyone any good, but I’m fucking tired of pretending that their opinions are in any way valid.
What we need both online and off is less tribalism and more open discussions of what economic and social policies have and haven’t worked for whom up until now, based in simple facts rather than sound bites and emotional manipulation.
Online though, there’s probably not much we can do. (Ideally there’s speaking truth to power if an opportunity arises, but we’re not talking about powerful people here, right?) Most real people (since much of the absolute worst vitriol we see online is astroturfing) can only be reached under the right conditions, like if they respect you or if they were already questioning things on their own and only need a little push. (Wealthy people have an advantage in that they can use money to induce favourable conditions all across a society, while the rest of us need to either be heavily organized or especially lucky. What works in regular people’s favour though is exposure to doses of reality. Not in a confrontational way, but in an empowering way.
Exactly. You can’t take them seriously at all because they’re just dumb hicks that have been mislead all of their lives but are amplified by social media now.
He’ll be voted in but always remember the people voting him in are uneducated bumpkins that can’t do think for themselves and just blindly repeat what they’re told to.
You know that might be most Canadians in the upcoming election, right? Do you really think to moment you leave Toronto or whatever people become toothless inbreds?
I’m not in this picture at all, by the way. Like the rest of Lemmy I dread PP. Exaggerated stereotypes serve nobody well.
What good does that do anyone? People looking down on one another and hating each other is a large part of the problem when it comes to voter misinformation.
Yeah, that’s probably correct… but what the hell kind of a solution are we supposed to be looking for? Reason is being lost on them, and it becomes increasingly exhausting to try and convince them to not believe in something they want to believe in.
Maybe it doesn’t do anyone any good, but I’m fucking tired of pretending that their opinions are in any way valid.
What we need both online and off is less tribalism and more open discussions of what economic and social policies have and haven’t worked for whom up until now, based in simple facts rather than sound bites and emotional manipulation.
Online though, there’s probably not much we can do. (Ideally there’s speaking truth to power if an opportunity arises, but we’re not talking about powerful people here, right?) Most real people (since much of the absolute worst vitriol we see online is astroturfing) can only be reached under the right conditions, like if they respect you or if they were already questioning things on their own and only need a little push. (Wealthy people have an advantage in that they can use money to induce favourable conditions all across a society, while the rest of us need to either be heavily organized or especially lucky. What works in regular people’s favour though is exposure to doses of reality. Not in a confrontational way, but in an empowering way.
Exactly. You can’t take them seriously at all because they’re just dumb hicks that have been mislead all of their lives but are amplified by social media now.