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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.
For people with this type of world view, it’s not about changing their minds; they need a simple excuse to support what they already are doing or planning to do.
We need to keep supplying them with excuses to abandon Trump. Some of them will latch on to each excuse provided.
Yes...
How the fuck do you not understand that?
Would an idiom help?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_that_broke_the_camel%27s_back
Like, this a basic logical fallacy, it's not just relevant here, it's relative constantly. This is something that should have been taught to you as a child, but we can't do anything about that now, just moving forward.
Like, if I offered you a dollar to do something unethical, and kept increasing the amount by a dollar till you agreed, the amount you agree to would be the total amount, not just one dollar because that was the most recent increase, the total is what matters.
Does this honestly not make sense to you?
Holy shit...
You still think it's just a single straw...
What is so hard about this?
If the last million things weren't enough for a group fo 100 people. Some of those 100 might just need "one more straw". Some might need 5 or 6, everyone is different.
But there's no way I can keep explaining this without coming off incredibly condescendingly. I'm gonna have to throw in the towel here, and in any future exchanges. I truly hope someone else helps you understand this, but I'll never see if it happens.