It used to be media gatekeepers who stopped it. Now they are either part of the problem or cut off from the online radicalization loop. With no alternative for pushback, Trump wins again, because his playbook works online and ours doesn't.
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If you think "yelling" won't work I really hope there's another alternative to stop the spiral, because inaction is clearly not working. Trump just got 200000 people killed and he's catching up in the polls, so...
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Replying to @MudDude4 @arthur_affect
My alternative to yelling at strangers on the internet? Build relationships with people to your left based on common interests and goals. Engage with people you know, respectfully. Make the affirmative case for your position. Organize.
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And, again, recognize that attempting to convert never-Biden leftists is a poor use of time and energy that could otherwise be spent on more productive forms of electoral activism.
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Replying to @studentactivism @arthur_affect
"Never-Biden leftists" are just Trumpists. Obviously. How naïve are we here? There are two types of interactions in this, again, straight-up culture war: interactions that get Trump elected and interactions that don't get Trump elected.
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If you have a way to make an affirmative case that leads to Trump not being elected, I very much encourage you do that. If you are on the Internet telling people to not push back against bad-faith narratives that get Trump elected, you're getting Trump elected.
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Replying to @MudDude4 @studentactivism
I want to push back on the idea that because you see something on the Internet that means you must respond because if you don't it's sitting there as a siren song "converting normies" as we speak (I know, I know, physician heal thyself)
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It sounds like a great recipe for spending 100% of your time screaming at trolls online while not actually changing what anyone thinks about anything
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Replying to @arthur_affect @studentactivism
I have to say, this "cost of opportunity" argument would be a lot more compelling if anybody could point at the actually effective alternatives. Because so far they aren't working great, either. Definitely not on the online space.
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Replying to @MudDude4 @studentactivism
Arguing isn't effective either though It's like the least effective thing, it's absurdly ineffective That's why they're trying to get you to do it
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They find it fucking hilarious to get the shitlibs all mad and red and nude, if you're losing your shit and screaming at them they've already won, you're getting screencapped and shared as another triggered af boomer
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