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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Dasus@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

Just something MAGA-people seem to have a hard time with sometimes. Probably not as much when Americans are speaking to themselves, but as a non-American, sometimes it's challenging to get "those people" to admit that there is indeed anything wrong with the US. As in they won't accept a single criticism, and will loudly proclaim "America is the greatest country in the world", while wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat, which for me pretty explicitly means America isn't great, if it has to be made to be such again.

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[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Awesome! Given this was a post about MAGA, I assumed you were from the US

That's understandable. Personally, I don't comment on posts without reading them, but I understand the attitudes towards literacy are a bit different in the States. If you had, you'd have probably noticed the "as a non-American", bit, wouldn't you?

Read on to the end please

That's a bit ironic, innit?

That’s a nice piece there

Oh as if you even browsed it, let alone read it.

Can’t logic people out of beliefs that have a significant emotional component.

Not what the point of the article, which again, you'd have known had you read it.

No single person is going to argue down enough Trump voters to impact US election results

Well, we'll ignore the fact that the US doesn't have direct presidential elections and pretend as if the popular vote was a de-facto direct vote. If it was, then even by affecting one voter, you could be affecting the outcome of the election. To say there's literally no impact is disingenuous, because politics is all about, well, politics. To say that "what are you gonna achieve by talking about it", in the context of politicians, is... rather silly.

Apathy is the greatest tool of the oppressor, and they've certainly gotten you. You should definitely have a look at this. https://medium.com/@annalloydc/how-fascism-and-apathy-are-linked-017c8a7b1e3d (And I use have "a look"/"gander at", because I knew you wouldn't be bothered to spend a few minutes reading them, but hoped I'd be wrong.)

Apathy can result in a lack of political engagement and interest, creating fertile ground for the rise of fascism. Corrupt people in political office love it when young people don’t vote, and become apathetic, because it increases their chances of winning.

"You can't argue the opposition anyway since they're idiots, so why bother"

Well, because while most idiots will stay idiots, not all do. Yes it's a vanishingly small percentage you'll experience doing it mid-debate, but to think that having discourse has no effect even if some MAGAts stayed magats despite the discourse, then you're being apathetic, which is putting the US (and the world) at more risk of fascism. So... please stop.

It is from small streams that big rivers rise.

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