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I definitely qualify for Mensa, but I've never applied because only losers brah about their IQ score, and only idiots are impressed by it. I'm seriously considering it now though, just to pull out my card when right wing idiots call me stupid for being a leftist.
they will just call you stupid for pulling out your mensa card.
It's a situational strategy, you have to lock them into buying into that metric first. But for a disturbingly common kind of person, that's not really much effort.
Even still, it's not really useful for changing minds directly, just lining them up to feel like a fool so they might be meeker in the future. It's a game of inches.
how old are you? are you really so niave you think this is in any way going to be 'effective'.
all you are doing is making yourself into an asshole here, so you can feel smug and superior to these folks. like is this even real, or is this just an imaginary scenario in your head you are making up?
because having regular interaction with such people most of my life, i can tell you you are not convincing them of anything no matter what you do. they only typically change their beliefs based on personal tragedy or trauma.
These folks' entire political worldview is based on feeling smug and superior to commie libtards. It's just ego and tribalism, purely emotional justifications. They don't care about facts, they care about posturing and rhetorical victories.
Which is what makes shame and belittlement so effective at denting their armor. It isn't about convincing them in the moment, it's about making them feel small and stupid. Feeling small and stupid is personal trauma, and if it happens enough they might abandon the beliefs that target them as small and stupid.
The biggest problem with the left is that we try to be civil and win the debate with facts and logic, when the audience doesn't give a shit about facts or logic. They are simple creatures, shame is the only thing their walnut brains understand.
I sense great irony in the force, Luke.