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Fear and hatred of out-group is a pretty core part of conservatism. They are bad people

He got people talking, which is worth something.

Feel a little like a crazy idiot, but I wasn't sure where long beach is and it was kind of hard to figure it out. California.

There are certainly worse candidates. Stewart still seems like he has a soul, unlike most republicans.

Well, there's the extreme end of things that moderators don't like posts about People love Luigi, though. But I understand not wanting to throw one's life away, even if success pushed the entire world onto a better trajectory.

There's also that low grade sabotage stuff that gets talked about. I think people were posting the ww2 sabotage manual a couple months ago. Stuff like have excessive meetings, make plausible mistakes to gum things up, that kind of stuff. This works better if you're closer to a source of the problems (eg: ICE, mega corps, republican think tanks, etc)

Then there's safer stuff like protests. There's the really safe ones where you just go and march. Those have use, but are kind of limited and won't fix things on their own. You can also do disruptive protests, but you have to be quick and smart, or you have a high risk of going to jail (or worse).

Radicalizing your friends also can be planting seeds. Maybe those will grow.

You could run for office, but that's slow and expensive.

There's probably other stuff, too, but I'm running out of steam here.

I haven’t seen any real evidence to that effect.

Do you accept that facebook is harmful to the world, or would I need to try to prove that? There's the time they tried to see if they could make people sad by adjusting the feed. (They could)

If you accept that, it's a small step to "They benefit from having more users on their platform". More users means more engagement, which means more ads, and advertisers pay more money for those ads. No one's going to pay big bucks to advertise their stuff to an empty platform. Facebook's going to have a harder time selling user data and metadata if users aren't on there.

Now, getting one family to stop using facebook is a drop in the bucket. But every family that leaves makes it easier for the next family to leave.

Those aren't the only email providers, and using email is less harmful than using Facebook.

email exists and isn't run by the worst people on earth