Talking of the clips here: oh my sweet baby jesus, these people are so obnoxious. But obviously arguing with brainwashed idiots such as the average right-winger with the capability to vote (in any country, mind you; I was physically attacked just some years ago, before our last presidential election, by an absolute zealot of a right-wing idiot for daring to announce my distaste for his idiotic reasons to vote against my clearly superior left-wing candidate; and my country has been FOR YEARS the most bird-nest bird-nest that ever bird-nested between two opposing superpowers) is so akin to playing chess with a pigeon that you basically shouldn’t do it for the sake of your own sanity. And by looking at the age of some of these fuckwits, I’d say gen Z is already doomed.
So instead of trying to convince the unconvinceable that their way of “thinking” is wrong (which it is, obviously, but maybe they can be converted later on or something?) and thus losing all your steam for the change, because you can’t do it; not alone, at least, and never publicly, because like ants they find strength in numbers (and also carry a strange unwavering loyalty for their regent, like ants again). They need like therapy and interventions to get them rid of their own personal delusions and mental gymnastics regarding their own personal brand of cognitive dissonance on why they choose to support regimes that only do harm.
But what every local communist and anarchist etc. should do is aim younger. Gen A can still be redeemed, and in the hands of the youth lies the future. We must plant trees in shades of which we may never come to rest, but if our children or their children may live in peace beneath those branches I’d say that is enough and good.
Talking of the clips here: oh my sweet baby jesus, these people are so obnoxious. But obviously arguing with brainwashed idiots such as the average right-winger with the capability to vote (in any country, mind you; I was physically attacked just some years ago, before our last presidential election, by an absolute zealot of a right-wing idiot for daring to announce my distaste for his idiotic reasons to vote against my clearly superior left-wing candidate; and my country has been FOR YEARS the most bird-nest bird-nest that ever bird-nested between two opposing superpowers) is so akin to playing chess with a pigeon that you basically shouldn’t do it for the sake of your own sanity. And by looking at the age of some of these fuckwits, I’d say gen Z is already doomed.
So instead of trying to convince the unconvinceable that their way of “thinking” is wrong (which it is, obviously, but maybe they can be converted later on or something?) and thus losing all your steam for the change, because you can’t do it; not alone, at least, and never publicly, because like ants they find strength in numbers (and also carry a strange unwavering loyalty for their regent, like ants again). They need like therapy and interventions to get them rid of their own personal delusions and mental gymnastics regarding their own personal brand of cognitive dissonance on why they choose to support regimes that only do harm.
But what every local communist and anarchist etc. should do is aim younger. Gen A can still be redeemed, and in the hands of the youth lies the future. We must plant trees in shades of which we may never come to rest, but if our children or their children may live in peace beneath those branches I’d say that is enough and good.