After spending a couple days interacting with them, I have come to agree with the common sentiment hexbear already had that it’s probably not worth trying to persuade a small number of steadfast neoliberals among those of us with limited patience, which includes myself.
If I’m a wimp and you still want to go buck wild, of course.
But the suggestion I got that .ee would probably be a better staging ground is at this point taken to heart. Since we are federated with them, I think the thing to do is make (appropriate, non-hostile) posts in .ee communities where the purpose of the comm adequately fits with topics that it would be useful to discuss.
As with my last post, which was misbegotten, it’s just a thought I had
I like arguing with reddit.world but I have a terrible sickness, no one should be like me!
I don’t actually believe online debate works. So, if you want to agitate, it has to be nonconfrontational at its core. Once there is conflict people just get dug in to the preexisting notions, and because online discourse is so depersonalized there can be no way to bridge that gap. At that point you’re just another random encounter in the posting RPG.
People are rightfully angry already, their anger is horribly misdirected. Nonconfrontational with lots of questions to get us out of our mind traps seems appropriate, but I’m not sure how many are like me, so there’s that.