YOU are speaking!
Have you made any poignant commentary on the recent election in the U.S.? Do you have a good response to liberals who are upset with the results or process of the election? Have you written or seen something as a comment reply/post that you think has standalone value? Did you see a new take or analysis you hadn’t previously considered?
Whether it’s a long idea with lots of context, or a short and sweet one liner, we want those thoughts aggregated here. This post is intended to be a resource for comrades to draw from when having actual discussions outside of Hexbear both online or IRL regarding the election.
Consider this a mini-effortpost aggregator. This is not for shitposts, but humor is completely acceptable if it helps make the point.
Make some slide decks
You should organize your thoughts into slide decks that you can use to keep you organized and have evidence on hand to make your point, instead of having to scrounge up a screenshot from your downloads folder when you need it.
Socialist education is complex in the imperial core. You kinda need to understand like 8-12 different concepts at once before it all clicks (and even then someone may not fully agree at that point, it just starts making sense). Slides will help you lay all that out, and that sort of structure will make it easy for someone to digest as well, since you'll be able to specify what you will talk about when. Fewer tangents cause you can say "we are gonna talk about that coming up", so you can stay focused.
Your own arguments will sharpen up. There's definitely some lazy shit that's propagated on Hexbear/Twitter, and it'll start to become obvious where you have weak points when you start to structure your thoughts into a slide deck.
Get to the conversation
Trying to get a couple of people to sit down and take a lecture from you is borderline cringy, however the point is that right now, liberals are ready to learn. It shouldn't be hard to bring them to
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These real life discussions will make you razor sharp in a way that posting online can not. Keep it interesting, add a bit of humor, and make it look nice. You should be able to educate people that you want to work with using this resource you craft for yourself (it's ideal to develop the slides yourself).
People do not actually want to educate themselves, and if you aren't doing it, CNN and the NYT are instead.
is there a recommended app to do this? these days pulling out a deck of cards to read off of might look unhinged vs. just swiping left and talking freely
No recommendation, I haven't done this yet. Having it in the phone would be good, I was thinking a power point kinda thing
ahhh ok. something like Obsidian i think might be good since it allows you to sort of make a wiki with interconnecting topics and links
It's funny cause after I saw your post I started to sketch an outline in obsidian lol
Like in an app on your phone? For reference during a conversation or just as practice?
Thinking it would be a PowerPoint kinda thing, but doing for practice and never using it is in the same ballpark, and having it on the phone for reference is also a good idea.
I wonder if there are good phone apps for that. Good thoughts, although it's hard for me to imagine being able to convince people to sit through an actual presentation on "So you're being burned by liberalism:"
Yep I'm kinda just posting here for the sake of it. Was gonna work on a slide deck today but I had some other stuff come up.
I agree though idk if anyone will ever see it but me. Slim chance it happens though. Maybe if I get a microparty going like I talked about down thread I could present it.