it is. sincerely really weird that 2016 nostalgia is a trend. like i knew this day would come but not for specifically 2016. the meme that year was about how this was the worst year ever for most people
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—Martin Luther King Jr., 16 April 1963
Young Hoes Cook Everything on High: Effectivity, Speed, and The Value of Women's Time Outside of the Domestic Sphere
no, but seriously. We are in a time where women are being forced back into the home, into the kitchens and the laundry rooms, to be good little wives and mothers. It is imperative that you do not do this. If a man ever fixes his mouth to question your "homemaking skills" (🙄😒), kick him. Punch him, SOMETHING, and then continue to do things as efficiently and simply as you please. Our mothers and grandmothers were all but chained to the stove, some of us (women of color, I mean) literally. Fuck a tidy house, fuck perfect homemaking, fuck the soapy made-up version of feminity invented by the Don Drapers of the world meant to sell soap and vacuums, and just live. Go out to the club, dance, watch a movie, read a book, surround yourself with good music and good food and good people, and if you MUST cook a meal, by God bitch... Cook it on high.
Many lgbt teenagers and young adults growing up on the internet today have socially conservative beliefs that they voice at all times that they got from their conservative parents which they’ve never challenged because they think the life experience of being gay or trans makes them politically progressive
This is why I hate it when people say something homophobic and then go “so you’re really accusing me, a whole ass lesbian, of being homophobic 🙄” like yeah
Just because you’re part of an oppressed party does not mean you cannot hold bias against other groups or members of your own group. Bias is learned and ingrained through society and family and it takes real work to unlearn it. No one is perfect, no one is without bias and you are in fact going to fuck up now and again—what matters is if you learn from it and grow.
this is what people are talking about when they say "do the work"
mr beast partnering with the lds church to help bring in younger people so they can marry off said younger people was not in my 2026 bingo
In the name of media literacy I need to point out the Mr Beast partnership and the attempt to lower marriage age are unrelated, they just put the two headlines together for some reason. Probably to get clicks. They lowered the missionary age, that's it.
Source: I read the article because the headline sounded too deranged. So it worked.
It cannot be overstated how truly shocking and heinous the amount of the right-wing swing among young men is due to a perceived threat to their asinine childish hobbies.
People need to get it out of their head: Celebrities are not your personal toys to play with. Ship the fictional characters, fine. But you have no right to their personal lives. The only thing they do is their jobs, and their jobs aren't to be your little monkey or to be your little plaything. You don't know them, you AREN'T dating them, and they sure as hell don't know you. If you're hurt or act like Joseph Quinn is cheating on you, then seek therapy. BTW, you don't even know if he is dating Doja Cat, so why jump to conclusions? Also, who cares if he is? It's his life. You guys need to get out of the mindset that just because celebrities are in the public eye, it means that they don't deserve boundaries or to be treated like their less than human. Part of the problem is RPF. It's one thing to fantasize about being with them but it's an entirely different thing to write it down like it's fiction, like you know them or like you created them, and like they're not even real. They're real people with real feelings. Get your heads out of your asses. They owe you NOTHING.
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If you are like me, you are likely having many arguments with MAGA people lately. These arguments may leave you exhausted, overwhelmed and angry. This is likely because you are going about it from the wrong lens.
MAGA people do not think like leftists do, and the typical arguments you may use on other leftist do not work on them. This is the part of the reason why leftist outreach constantly fails.
I've tested the approaches I share on dozens of conservatives now, and it works every time. I'll distill it for you, and then you can see the full breakdown in the article.
- Do not get riled up at personal attacks; ignore them or agree with them.
- Remove appeals to empathy or morals.
- Ask them questions about common sense things rooted in observable reality rather than policy or law.
- Repeat your real-world observations multiple times in different ways.
- Ask them to explain things to you.
- Take their arguments and apply them to different situations with similar potential outcomes.
- Appeal to groups they have not dehumanized; namely, children.
And most importantly, don't get discouraged if they never admit they are wrong. They won't. But you're still getting through to them if they suddenly disappear from the conversation.
These are crucial tactics you can use on any conservative you come across, including family and friends. I encourage you to read the whole thing, then share it with others who care about social justice.
Has anyone ever had this actually work? Genuine question. At any point till the pandemic I could still get through to them, even if they were shitty toward me.
At this point I suspect nothing works, myself. We are The Enemy and there’s zero we can say or do to convince them otherwise. They’ve hated us for too long and are too immersed in that hatred on the daily.
They’re laughing about the ICE brutality right now. I am not kidding. It’s making them extremely cheerful to see people beaten.
I don’t think there is any way to appeal to people like that. Certainly not with these gentle things.
Firstly, yes. It does work, as I note in my article. I give examples of exactly what I have said to shut down over two dozen people gloating about Renee Good's death.
I continued monitoring the comment threads after they stopped talking to me and guess what? Almost all of them stopped commenting there entirely, to anyone. They just went poof.
Now, about "these gentle things." I will just point out the end of my article, which explains why you believe you're not seeing progress.
One reason people believe arguing with conservatives is futile is that they don’t see the payoff. It’s extraordinarily rare for such a commenter to come back and go, “Oh yeah I see you’re right. Sorry about that.” Of course these commenters don’t give a mea culpa. Many of us do not like to admit we’re wrong, especially not to strangers. I’ve certainly flounced more than a few times when I realized I'd been called out; I may even have blocked people because they hurt my feelings. Just because they don’t kowtow to you does not mean you didn’t do valuable work. You don’t need them to say you changed their mind, and expecting them to is unrealistic. Their silence speaks volumes. It tells you they have no more ammunition to throw at you. They withdraw to protect their egos, but now with something to think about.
Here is the crux of the problem, which I see among many, many leftists. They don't see instant gratification, so they give up. "Nothing will change them!" the leftists say, after appeals to morality or ad hominem attacks failed to work.
Yeah, because firstly, you were using leftist logic (appeals to empathy), and secondly, you were expecting that people change their minds in an instant (or publicly admit they did).
I get that everyone wants the magical girl transformation moment to occur right in front of them, but I'm sorry, it doesn't happen. Ego defense is extremely strong; someone isn't going to throw away their whole identity in an instant.
That's because this sort of deep-rooted change happens slowly. Very slowly. Like water wearing away stone. It takes conversation after conversation, change after change. You are up against decades of misinformation and brainwashing.
Your conversation might be the tipping point, or it might not be. It may only be a drop of water against the stone. It might be the shatter point. You can't know. But you also can't know - and can't do anything - if you don't try.
Think of it like trying to stop a flywheel spinning in the opposite direction. Does one yank on the flywheel make it abruptly change course? No. It doesn't. You have to keep going, bit by bit, to make it change direction. You're up against a lot of resistance. It might seem tiring and impossible. But it can happen.
Another thing that people fail to consider is social contagion. If you make a comment, or have a public conversation, you are not just influencing the person in front of you but everyone who is exposed to it.
Other people see the tactics they use. They see that this makes people stop gloating. They start to apply it themselves.
Others, who may have been on the fence, see the conversation. They start to think for themselves. They mull it over, privately, and then maybe they change their mind.
But - and this is the excruciating part - you have to detach yourself from the outcome. You have to accept that you're not going to see a magical transformation. You're not going to get some glowing reward of being a good person, of changing someone's mind.
This is ego-less, thankless work. It can't be achieved if you're desperate for personal validation and satisfaction. It's done because you know it's the right thing to do, not because you want to feel good.
If you can tolerate that, great! Fire away. If you can't, then you don't have to. There are other things you can do. Anyone can be a changemaker, whether they're rhetorical hypnotists or front-line resisters.
So you’ve never actually seen someone stop being shitty then. You’ve monitored some blogs that stopped posting and … that’s it.
Gonna take a random stab in the dark here that you’ve changed no minds and they just went elsewhere to be shitty to new people after you annoyed them to death with responses like these.
Just a guess.
I have a dream - Martin Luther King and the March on Washington