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
Aw, don’t retract. The reality with these things is always that the person you’re arguing with will practically never change their mind, but other people who view the conversation might. I don’t think agitating on .world is for many people, probably very few, but I would argue it results in something.