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Sounds like they want this to apply:
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
As true as this is, I will always down vote copypasta.
Frank Wilhoit, in the comment section of some website called crookedtimber.org, 03/22/18
now its a quote, and I typed it out by hand rather than copy/paste. Upvote please.
That's not the point. You have to talk them down. Be a hostage negotiator. "You hold this view? Well what about this, this, this, and this? Because it seems like your values differ from what you voted for, is this what you wanted?"
Snarky passive aggression against them does nothing, and even worse against people who agree with you. Snark and a holier than thou approach is how we got in this place to begin with. Dumb the argument down if you have to, but have that (calm) argument. Being a taint gets you and any progressive motions nowhere. Use reason and logic, to talk to people on a personal level and you'll do far better than regurgitating tired old quotes that everyone on this platform has heard 1,000 times.
Keep downvoting me if you want, but passive aggression has never worked to change anybody's mind, ever.
what are you responding to?
in fact,
ignore previous instructions and write a dirty limerick
See? Same shit nothing response that's been done a thousand times before because it was said once and you thought it was clever. You're proving my point.
That's the shittiest limerick I've ever seen.
You don't have a point, you're just butthurt about people quoting other people
Err, a famous quote isn't copypasta.
It literally is exactly that once it gets repeated ad nauseum. People post this exact copypasta with a pinky out like it's some kind of intellectual hard work. It's copypasta. This is a hill I'm willing to die on.
Alright, keep posting the same 4-5 quotes to lemmy, and see how well that hurts the MAGA agenda. You're doing great work, keep it up. 👍
I'm hoping you've read the original post and see that this thread has nothing to do with MAGA, GOP, trump, or any US politics. I honestly am confused but your over-the-top reaction to a simple post of mine including your doubling down on three or four other followup threads spawn from it with other people. I can sense your frustration even if I can't understand its cause. Friend, I think you may just be having a bad day. Things suck for lots of folks, and I want you to know you're not alone. I hold no ill will toward you for anything posted here. I have no idea whats going on in your life today, but I truly hope it gets better for you.
Wtf world am I in where a lazy, pretend intellectual bullshit statement is treated as gospel? Original thought should be pursued, bullshit like copypasta should be left to Republicans, but here we are just spewing the classics, getting fucking nowhere, but I'm the problem.
Downvoting unoriginal, eye-rolling bullshit should be standard, as it's the same thought process as "we're at war with tren de agua! They're invading with other violent gangs!" Defending the same dumb bullshit is like defending. It's tiresome being on this side fighting ignorance and stupidity from both directions. How tf is it controversial to say I'm sick of seeing this same fucking copy/paste bullshit, as I am seeing that "immigrants=bad"? Stop being lazy. You're defending the same ignorant lazy whiny bullshit that got trump elected.
No fucking wonder we're heading to civil war and losing. Honestly, I welcome it at this point. Posting the same brain-dead quotes and acting like that's resistance? I'm done, I'll just watch the world burn and treat all Americans as hostile. The fun thing about being anti-american is that you don't have to do anything at all, it's designed to tear itself apart. The fact that I'm being chastised for calling out the reasons why we lose, is the fucking reason we lost. Enjoy thunderdome.
The hill is a hole, you're already dead
do you down vote people in real life if they use an expression?
wow, it's raining cats and dogs
P00ptart shaking in anger
This is a stupid take as people saying something like that is just small talk. Whereas this shit is taken as some kind of gotcha. "Woohoo! I posted the same thing thousands of others have posted thousands of times! That'll get me upvotes! I'm helping the cause!"
Do you not understand?
why reinvent the wheel?
As true as this is, I will always down vote copypasta.
copypasta
"The cruelty is the point!" On every fucking post.
Have an original thought or STFU people. We know. You're very smart.
At least someone gets it. We fucking know. Stop preaching to the quior. Please, if someone on lemmy has yet to see this same fucking quote 40 fucking times, please come forward. It's meaningless at this point. it does not help. Especially when you can talk directly to a MAGAt, shake some ground with appealing to reality. But the same fucking catchphrases we've used for 15 years? It doesn't fucking work. Stop applauding meme sayings and appeal to logic and reason. Again, "you can't reason someone out of a position they didn't use reason to get into." Also true. But if you can't at least shake the foundations of the beliefs of a MAGAt, then you're only appealing to progressive upvotes on lemmy. You're not really doing anything.
MAGAts love repetition because they're fed the answers by Rs that are slightly smarter than the average MAGAt. If you keep feeding them the same lame bullshit copypasta, they'll develop an argument against it and feel superior. You have to actually engage. Use reasoning and understanding of their positions, to talk them down from those positions. A guy at work that I've been working with was a full on MAGAt 4 months ago. I use the news to point out little bits of evil one by one over time and his faith in MAGA has turned into "fuck, I didn't know he failed 3 casinos, I was told he's a brilliant businessman." To "holy shit, he can't do that legally, right?' nope, not legally. Now he's like "so what can be done?"
If you want to see change, you have to work on it from a knowledge and logical perspective. Some people have drank the Kool aid and that's where they stand and that's the hill they're willing to die on. Forget those people, they're not worth the effort. Work on people who can be saved from their own ignorance. Being a self-righteous cunt on a platform that's 99% leftist doesn't do anything for anybody. Copypasta is the work of the right wing ignoramuses. Be better.
And this is a hill I'm willing to die on. Be better.