orestian:

maxiesatanofficial:

at some point we do need to come to grips with the reality that facts are often ineffective at converting people, and figure out a way that is more effective without being widely unethical

I’m frustrated by seeing posts about how climate change is SO OBVIOUSLY real when the core problem is that the people who don’t buy into it either are ideologically/financially biased against the idea, or think science is fake and gay

it doesn’t help that the far left relentlessly criticizes any attempts made to recruit or appeal to centrists for “not being radical enough”. the far right is already relentlessly propagandizing whatever the fuck they want, and at this point refusing to match those efforts with leftist propaganda on the grounds of moral or ideological purity is not only useless but self-defeating. also it turns out being cruel and condescending to people whose opinions might have been swayed serves no fucking purpose other than to prop up the egos of those doing the belittling – who knew?