• Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    So, living in the cousin-fuckingly deep south, the LP is actually a great tool to redirect votes away from Trump.

    There’s pretty much zero chance I can sell the local rednecks on Biden, but I’ve had decent luck with the whole break-room-political-banter situation - they’ll have Fox or some shit on, get all heated about whatever the bobble-heads on screen tell them to, then start bitching to me about it.

    My strategy is to bitch right along with them - don’t defend Biden or (more often) Hillary, but connect whatever it is they’re whining about to Trump, and lump him in with whichever dem is in their spotlight.

    Like when they bring up Hillary’s emails, I’ll hit em with something like “Dude, I don’t know how they get away with shit like that - if I did a tenth of what Hillary did with her private email server or Trump smuggling classified docs over to his private property, I’d spend the rest of my life in prison!”

    ‘Both sides’ em. End with a sales pitch for the LP as the only viable alternative, and hopefully you’ll get that “hmmm” response.

     

    Don’t get me wrong, the LP is a bad fucking joke, but you can do some good talking up their on-paper highlights to the less crazy end of the Y’all Quaeda horde.

    • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.worldOP
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      5 months ago

      So I have a fake white supremacist Facebook account where I befriend other white supremacists, and I convince them a vote for Biden will kick off race war which is what they want. It has worked!

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        5 months ago

        I will never stop saying this, that our whole nation is being held hostage by the segment whom believe WWE storylines.

        If you try to drive facts and reason and logic at them, you are just fitting right into the role of the “Bad Science Guy” character introduced during the “Covid: Locked down - In A Cage” story arc. They are not siding with the nazis and mobsters because they present a great fiscal policy, they are siding with the “cool bad guys who can do whatever they want” and they delight in the hate they get because it validates their admiration of power. This is feelings, never, ever politics.

        If you want to change how they think, you have to change how they feel, and while it doesn’t have to be exactly dangling accelerationism of race war, you can tug at people’s heart strings and change their narratives just a little, or you can make them more afraid of stories they haven’t paid attention to yet, like “climate change needs to be taken seriously because it’s going to make the migrant situation worse” off the top of my head. We don’t win with data with people who didn’t use data to get into their position.

    • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 months ago

      Dude sorta same. Not to that extent because I mostly don’t need to interact with staunch reds in my area but when it happens I do the same. This past week I did it by telling them that I don’t watch news on TV period because both sides just want to make you made with fake news to sell you ads. Then I mention I use multiple neutral third party news sites online for my news (which is true).

      I actually like using their terms against them too, calling them snowflakes and insinuating things about them. Works especially well if in a neutral non confrontational term.