• Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    Nothing anyone says will change my vote. Not paying attention will save my sanity. Especially because I’m in a swing state and they’ve already started calling me.

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      10 months ago

      I tend to agree but it’s important to push back against right-wing trolls, family, and friends. Not necessarily to convince them, but to ensure they don’t sway the apathetic who go with the currents (what these right-wing operatives refer to as normies).

      There will be calls to apathy and defeatism and muddying of the waters and there must be some rebuke to the onslaught of right-wing propaganda both on and offline.

      Get others out to register and vote and make sure your crazy uncle’s rants don’t go unchecked.

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        10 months ago

        I am more attached to my mental well-being than I am to democracy. Plus I don’t have a crazy racist uncle and if I did I wouldn’t see his posts because I don’t use Facebook.

        Unless you’re saying I should further endanger my sanity by using that cesspool again, in which case I will decline more vehemently

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          10 months ago

          I posit the end of Democracy may just be a greater threat to one’s sanity than merely partaking in news and having conversations. Just a thought. Especially when we know these conversations and pushing back against trolls matter; and that inaction can lead to mold festering unchecked.

          But of course, you do you.