slowly radicalizing me and I don't like it
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Can't wait for all my leftist friends that I managed to convince electoralism works rubberband back into tankies bc moderates are massive bitches
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this is literally half my friend group rn and I'm running out of counters
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On the internet, you're not talking to the person responding to you so much as you're talking to the people reading along. There's usually something like a 10:1 ratio of reading to posting, too.
Even in person, people rarely change their mind and acknowledge they were wrong mid-conversation. What movement does happen often happens when people are thinking things over later, or when they later see something that hammers the point home.
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I do that myself, sometimes. I'll reject something in the moment but then later find myself believing it almost without realizing it.
That being said, I still think you're better off pretty much anywhere other than r/neoliberal. Firmly hostile territory with, uh, unfavorable demographics.
Spending time there regularly is a waste, yeah. It's famously astroturfed to hell. But in those rare instances where some cracks appear, it probably makes sense to have a presence. Give people who are grappling with reality for once new ideas to think about.