• Daze
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    4 days ago

    I’m glad someone else sees it. Honestly I’m completely uncertain this will be reversible sans dire, dire consequences. We could agree that a syndrome exists, to the tune of generating masses of cultist followers, but even if we did, said followers would call it fake news and think nothing more. What combats that??

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      Call them out. Call their weird cognitive dissonance exactly what it is. Throw it back in their little snowflake faces

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        I don’t have hope that we can defibrillate america back to life 😭

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          All you can do is try. One conversation at a time, one step at a time. Don’t give into despair, that’s what the fascists want you to do.

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            And remember the bystanders, the people listening but not participating. Especially the teenagers and young adults. Some of them may be coming from an environment where everyone around them spouts propaganda. You may be the first true voice of reason that they have ever heard.

            You never know when you will help someone not only recognize that there’s a net wrapped around them, but also that it’s possible to escape between the knots.

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      An education system sufficiently funded to actually do what an education system is supposed to do would be a start. I’m sure the cult profiting from getting free sheep from the status quo will immediately get on funding the department of ed-

      Oh.