Damus
StackSats.IO · 126w
These largely aren’t teenagers to whom Marxism appeals because they’re broke and it sounds good after smoking pot and reading the communist manifesto - these are people who have been institutional...
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People will just keep pushing in one direction if nobody pushes back. But we can't push back because those people don't even listen to the other side. They want to censor any pushback, so they can live in their fantasy world that everybody believes the same things they do except for a tiny group of fascists (when in fact is is at least 65% of people who disagree with them).

It reminds me of something a dog trainer told me: If a dog growls, and you scold it, you can indeed train it to not growl. But if you go down that path, the first hint you will have that something is wrong is when the dog bites you.

The most important and relevant thing they are ignorant of is how righteously steaming angry they have made their political opponents. And that this is not a safe way to proceed.
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StackSats.IO · 126w
I don’t think normies want to change the Marxists minds, not in the sense of having a reasoned discussion and getting them to see things differently at least. I think normies just don’t want to be engaged with them, at all. They want to be left alone to live their lives with their families. It...
A Scientist · 126w
The absurd election of Trump was those angry people growling. Unfortunately, the political left in America interpreted that growling not as a warning related to their own, let's call it "questionable" behavior, but instead as an indichtment of the mental health and morality of the numerical majority...