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octopus_ink,

Also, just for completeness, this was a specific reference too: 🙂

nbcnews.com/…/new-florida-standards-teach-black-p…

octopus_ink,

Very interesting thank you!

octopus_ink,

If you’re struggling to figure out why it’s important to show this to his stupid constituents then I don’t understand why you’re even commenting. Sit back and let the people interested in effecting change spread this information and shut the fuck up.

What I’m struggling with is to find evidence from past events which would lead you to believe his voters are going to be changed by showing them any of this. You’ve got the folks who do not care because they are Trump cultists, then you have the folks who would vote for Satan himself if he had R next to his name.

Everyone else is already not going to vote for him.

So what change do we think showing this to his supporters is going to effect?

octopus_ink, (edited )

Find them and ask them.

You have apparently had much more productive conversations with trumpers than I ever have.

ask them what it would take to choose their country over their party.

And, it’s not hard to predict their answers.

  • Treat trans people like monsters and pedophiles, and legislate as such.
  • Knock gays back to the 80s or earlier via legislation
  • The rest of the queer community needs to STFU and pretend they don’t exist.
  • Cancel all DEI programs and make them illegal
  • Immigration? No thank you!
  • Make Pride month celebrations illegal at all businesses or public areas
  • Follow the DeSantis model of history teaching, by trying to claim slavery was a benefit to slaves, or that Rosa Parks was just having a bad day and sat at the wrong end of the bus, etc
  • Support police without question - as long as it’s the blacks, gays, antifa, and left-leaning protesters they are beating up on
  • Eliminate birth control and abortions nationally
  • Put back all those civil war memorials because muh heritage
  • Restrict college and high school curricula to Republican-approved materials on a national level
  • Cease all climate-change measures or spending
  • Acknowledge there is no solution to gun violence that involves restricting the activities of gun owners.

That’s pretty close to the list for anyone who is flying a Trump flag. And if it’s not on their list, it’s still not a dealkiller.

Outreach will win the day.

You’d need to put me in kevlar and pay me a lot to go knocking on maga doors all day.

Edit: (I promise I know who Rosa Parks and Harriet Tubman were, I just flipped the name by accident in my haste!) snopes.com/…/rosa-parks-race-removed-florida-text…

octopus_ink,

The founding fathers haven’t theorized that this particular situation could happen.

Which you can’t even blame them for, honestly. Who in the 18th century would have thought a huge chunk of the country would want a known despot?

octopus_ink,

LOL while you are correct, I’m ashamed to say that was a mistake on my part, I just typed the wrong name.

I was referring to their attempt to whitewash what happened with Rosa Parks.

www.cnn.com/2023/03/22/us/…/index.html

snopes.com/…/rosa-parks-race-removed-florida-text…

octopus_ink,

I’ve got a bad feeling that a Governor’s pardon doesn’t have a legal avenue for being reversed. I hope I’m wrong, and IANAL, but I have a suspicion that even though this was absolute horseshit we’re going to be stuck with it.

octopus_ink,

It was rhetorical. We all know she will.

octopus_ink,

So what’s the over/under on whether she votes Trump anyway?

octopus_ink,

Two guesses how theyll treat a felon with a firearm if he gets caught with one after this

Did I get it in one? :D

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/7d65e2f9-e832-4eea-8d30-e9ab13fb2ed1.png

octopus_ink,

Like even accepting the premise that this works (which I don’t really), there would be any number of ads to be made about how Copilot can attend meetings for you, and you can just keep working instead and not have to be bothered with it. But no somebody made the ad thinking that increasing the meetings was the part that people are gonna get excited about.

I feel like this is the same guy who told the Kellogg’s CEO to suggest that folks struggling to pay higher prices for basics should try cereal for some meals.

octopus_ink,

Imagine if everyone going to bullshit meetings actually did something productive for society, or did something that they themselves found fulfilling.

At some point I’ve decided this is at least 25% of the point of most of the Star Trek storylines, and I’m here for it, sadness and all.

octopus_ink,

it was never about making anything better for you.

And that’s why it’s posted here.

octopus_ink,

Remember, you’ve already got the generation of folks who watched the transition to computers that were supposed to make their lives “easier” become instead “you are expected to do far more with your workday because we made it easier for you.”

Right now it looks like “wow it will lighten my workload” but what it will look like in the end is “now we can expect more productivity per the same unit time from our workers.”

I’d love to be wrong, but 1% gonna 1%.

octopus_ink,

That really doesn’t lessen my horror.

octopus_ink,

I wish I could just go 10 minutes without using terminal.

As someone who prefers using the terminal for many common tasks, it’s hard for me to imagine what is forcing you to the terminal that often.

octopus_ink, (edited )

As someone living in the UK, I almost want him to get in to see what happens.

This was a reasonable 2016 viewpoint. I’d prefer not to hasten my country’s descent into an authoritarian nightmare, please.

octopus_ink,

No D next to his name, and they are pretty sure he’ll hurt only the right people, so they are cool with it.

octopus_ink, (edited )

It will only come out for July 4th parades and to drive through some brown persons house “accidentally” during a welfare check.

Don’t forget about running over protesters. Way better than your average SUV.

youtu.be/vBz2tE7d-iQ

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/4331b1af-1f4f-4c1b-bd17-b802dfcc3ebd.jpeg

octopus_ink,

Take an article from a reputable publisher, an article for a subject that you are expert in.

Read it and make note of facts they got right and got wrong.

This is what got me to shake free of some podcasters I placed far too much faith in at one point in the past. When I realized how slanted and fucked their opinion was on things I knew about, it put all their other opinions in a much different light.

octopus_ink, (edited )

It’s almost like they are trying to shoehorn AI into anything and everything regardless of whether it is a good fit, and regardless of whether the technology is ready, and regardless of the outcome. Like blockchain. And IoT. And Angry Birds. (j/k on that last one. Kinda.)

But that’s none of my business, I’m just a puppet frog drinking tea.

octopus_ink,

I don’t even want admit who it was. (It wasn’t Rush or Hannity, more stealth than those guys but I should have known better anyway.) 😬

octopus_ink, (edited )

I guess that’s technically accountability. Doesn’t sound like much of a punishment.

And this is damn near a unicorn. (and likely would have been swept under the rug without cam footage - just like every other case where cops see justice) Just like one black president didn’t signal the end of racism, a small percentage of cases where someone OTHER THAN taxpayers are on the hook for police misbehavior doesn’t signal the end of a need for reform, it signals a nearly imperceptible change to the status quo. I’m grateful for the change, but it’s barely a start.

octopus_ink,

I will acknowledge that in this case the involved Republicans behaved in a way that I don’t hate.

Gotta go take a shower now.

octopus_ink,

In a weird way I agree with both you and the person you replied to. My own personal doublethink, I suppose.

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