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[–] baines@lemmy.cafe 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

mine were like yea but the price of eggs

I assure you we now talk about the price of eggs, inflation, and job security daily

and by that I mean I talk at them while they pretend it is all fine

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's a really interesting time right now to talk to them about those egg prices.

I know they're going to stick their fingers in their ears and go "LA LA LA BIDEN" but you can't stop.

Seriously, we're in this mess because they wore us down so we stopped engaging. START ENGAGING AGAIN. We have to make this uncomfortable for them, all of them, they have to identify the correct source of this discomfort too. Stop caring if they scream or whine or threaten to not associate with you or ANYTHING else. We have to start getting some thicker fucking skin.

You know all that shit you see on your feed "Epic leftist DESTROYS prominent conservative!" and it's some select clip of a talk show or interview? You know all those smug "leopards ate their faces" posts that make it look like the right broadly is suffering under its own folly and we all just need to sit back and chuckle?

IT'S ALL BULLSHIT. NONE OF THAT MEANS ANYTHING. We are in the most danger of losing America than we've EVER been in since the revolutionary war itself. The right is NOT running scared, they're not worried, they're not suffering. Not yet at least.

They're celebrating in the streets because they think they're winning. Your TASK, each of you, is to make sure that when it starts really hurting, when their social services dry up, when their VA checks bounce, when their childcare subsidies are revoked, when their food stamps are canceled... is to draw for them a direct line between who they fucking voted for, and what they've lost.

You might think this sounds stupid and obvious, and that's the same conditioning that made you think we were going to win. Don't be naive. Build communities. Get informed. Get in people's fucking faces and who CARES if you get attacked, insulted, hit, screamed at or filmed? What TRULY do we have to lose when we're on the verge of losing everything?

[–] CMonster@discuss.online 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I tried that and now I'm posting to Lemmy from one of the new camps.