• StabbingSky@lemmy.zip
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    18 hours ago

    Or, you know, they’re tired of talking and hearing about it 24/7.

    Or, they’re like me and live in a maga area

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      13 hours ago

      I’m sorry but the fucking world seems to be ending. If you declare you’re sick of hearing about it, it doesn’t put you in the best light.

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        12 hours ago

        Some people need to for their mental health. Not everyone is as terminally online as Lemmy users tend to be.

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          Absolutely fair point, I’m in no position to lecture anyone on that here on the edge of my sanity. I just think it’s dangerous to disregard “politics” because it affects everyone and there are some things you need to see coming so you have enough time to plan and adapt. I have a lot of trauma around safety so I’m probably way more on edge about this kind of thing than most people.

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          18 hours ago

          All it takes for evil to succeed is for good men to do, or in this case, say nothing.

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            17 hours ago

            In a way I see what stabbing is saying, and yeah in magaland its sometimes better to stay quiet and make a difference in other ways without making yourself a target of violence. However, if youre around maga-lite like some folks I know who get angry when they see a rainbow flag, small comments like “why would you care about people being inclusive?” Makes them have the tiniest shred of introspection.

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              17 hours ago

              This. I know a number of people who think of themselves as right wing, but if you actually listen to them their opinions are far more on the left. If you can actually listen to them, understand where they’re coming from and show them empathetically who is actually fucking them over, you can do a lot more than if you staunchly refuse to have any contact with them.

              And even questions like yours, although I’d rephrase it as “why does it matter to you?” That focusses the question on them without giving them something else to latch on to distract from the question.

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                16 hours ago

                Exactly…i mean full magas are a lost cause. But its the maga lite that occasionally watches fox news and gets news from Facebook that we can maybe save.

                Also youre totally right. They are brainwashed to think they need to fight Demonrats and immigrants and gays, when in reality it’s the billionaires we need to fight. Thats why the rih pour billions into dissent and trying to cause infighting. Its disgusting.

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      18 hours ago

      Those are two very different things.

      Someone who says “I’m not very political” in a maga-infused bar because they’re afraid of being assaulted for being left-wing isn’t really the same as “I’m tired so I’m not going to stand up for my neighbor today”