What do you do when people don't care?
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What would you like for them to do? Have they discussed how they vote with you? Or how they spend their money? Maybe they just don't want to talk about it at work?
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As someone in a similar environment, there are others who care. It just isn't worth the risk to my job & professional relationships to talk about. Most people who don't care I won't sway anyways and anyone who does care doesn't need to talk to me. So, for the betterment of my family, I stay quiet at work. Outside of work though I'll talk to my friends & anyone who will listen about the risks of the current regime.
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I think a better question is, how do we make our elected representatives care?
(The answer, of course, is by not electing a**holes, but that's not going to happen until people really start to suffer). -
It's less about valuing communication and more about the dopamine hit. Delivering that lecture and educating the simpletons feels really good.
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I wish I knew. People keep telling me to "organize" and "strike". Like yeah a Walmart full of 60yo conservative white people is going to strike over this, fucking idiot.
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Idk I listen to politics lectures. It's not really the lecturer's fault he was lecturing, he was right and so he should be lecturing others on truth.
This idea that all opinions are equal are how we ended up in a post-truth world.
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All anyone wants to do is lecture me about how they are right, and I am wrong if I think different than them
The question is - are you wrong? Is your take actually valid? Based on sound imperical data? Is not fallacious? Does your reasoning stand up to scrutiny?
Ultimately you shouldn't need to be coddled if you have any allegiance to the truth.
It's one thing if a 3-year old gets 2+2 wrong. It's another when it's a 33 year old.
The unfortunate reality is that democracy as a vehicle for progress is a failure because not enough people have an allegiance to the truth, nor have the basic epistemological tools for determining what's knowledge, what's belief, what's a hypothesis, what's theory or what's evidence or any idea of what the scientific method even is.
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Lecturing others anonymously online isn't exactly caring either.
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You have more control over your attitude than over politics, or other peoples' opinions. Don't exhaust yourself and don't strain your relationships uselessly. They want to bring you down and push you out. I usually reject stoicism, but this is a good time to be stoic and keep your energy reserves, and your attitude, fresh.
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