• lemmefixdat4u@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Keep doing what I have been doing - dragging MAGA fence sitters back from the brink one by one. The ones who have adopted Trumpism as their religion are too far gone. But there are a lot who just need to be taken by the hand and shown a better path.

    When you see MAGA BS, challenge it with well-reasoned arguments. The object really isn’t to change the mind of the poster. It’s to prevent them from changing the minds of others.

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      Yeah, there’s a huge difference in tactics depending on whether you’re trying to comvince the person you’re arguing with, or the audience.

      The latter is soo much easier - often it’s enough to back them into a corner where they out themselves as wrong whatever they say, and they’ll quickly descend into a ball of rage.

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      Thats what my brother does, but he is a cis het man who works in construction as an electrician. He is very left leaning so he does try to challenge things where he can.

      But I can’t do that. I am a trans woman and confrontation legitimately would put me in danger and it wouldn’t work anyways. People claim I am biased because I am in a group who is being targeted, its bullshit beyond belief but thats how people are.

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      Can you please give an example of a well reasoned argument that’s relevant here?

      I’m not sure of the relationship of reason to people that aggressively disregard objective fact and fluidly move the goalpost of their burden of proof.

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          5 months ago

          IME this just leads to “yeah, but ours will be different/better!” type responses like…

          “Politicians suck, but ours are good”

          “Stop giving out all these services with our tax dollars but don’t touch our Medicare”

          “Gay marriage shouldn’t be legal, but my gay daughter is fine.”

          “Immigrants are evil, except for the waiter at my favorite Mexican restaurant, he is one of the good ones”

          I/Me/Mine is ALWAYS the exception to every rule for them.

          So the NEW mainstream, MY mainstream, will be different and tell the REAL truth.

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        Look up how to debate. Success is not measured by how bad you make the opponent look. That may work on one person, but you have to repeat it for every person who advances the same argument. Instead, take apart their argument, reveal underlying motives, expose untruths with irrefutable documentation, uncover false logic and bad assumptions, and respond without attacking the messenger.

        For instance, “The economy is terrible! Everything is so expensive.” Well, stuff -is- expensive. But is the economy really the reason behind it? The US stock indexes are at record highs. Most companies have been beating the expected earnings per share. Isn’t it more likely that things are expensive because companies are taking more profit to give to their shareholders? Which candidate do you believe is more inclined to change that?

        The object is not to defeat the opponent. It’s to prevent others from being convinced by their arguments.