“Well what’s the alternative?”

tell them the alternative

“Well, everyone thinks their political opinion is the correct one, what gives you the right to say yours is correct”

passionately appeal to their human empathy and tell them why socialism is indeed correct

“Wow stop being so aggressive, you’re trying to force your beliefs on me, this is why people don’t like talking about politics”

sooner or later politics will become relevant to your life, capitalism is killing our species, do you not want to maybe do something about that...?

“Well if we’re all doomed anyway what’s the point, might as well just be blissfully ignorant”

Fucking end my life. This is almost verbatim a conversation I just had. This is a person who came from a working family who has worked and rented their whole life. Convo started when I called landlords parasites and tried to explain why, lol. How are we meant to convince a critical mass of these people to leave their false consciousness behind before capitalism fucking kills us all :doomer:

  • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    most people see getting “mad” or “emotional” as a bad thing, regardless of the context

    Liberals are like dogs; they understand tone but not content.

      • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Very true; tone is the first thing we notice. If someone is yelling, it instinctively draws your attention. But (ideally) after a couple seconds your human intelligence kicks in to determine whether the tone is justified. The problem with liberals is that they believe that harsh tone is never justified, because muh civility.

      • penguin_von_doom [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        Nah, I think it's something cultural. In my home country the norm is to speak loud and have emotion to a point where to a westerner a passionate conversation about some trivial stuff can sound like an angry shouting match or an argument...