How is this not eugenicist? They want to implement the genetic alteration of our species to save us from ourselves because genetics is the most important part. Even if they don’t mean forced sterilization and want to do genetic engineering on everyone or something that is still eugenics. Who gets to determine what the “bad” genes are that are ruining the species?

So you’re a eugenicist?

Tell me you’ve never worked a customer support job without telling me you’ve never worked customer support.

Every call center I’ve worked at was back to back phone calls almost all day not allowed to have a literal minute to breath between calls and they would get mad at me for daring to use the restroom outside of my breaks.

Blame the companies for not hiring enough staff and not wanting to provide proper customer service. the customer service workers hate this even more than the customers do we are the ones who get yelled at all day because the hold times are so long.

There Is a reason why we don’t have literacy tests for voting anymore.

I just don’t think having this kind of surveillance state apparatus is ever worth it I don’t want the government or private companies tracking my every move.

I don’t even own a car and I want these cameras gone.

Violating everyone’s 4th amendment rights is unpatriotic

Also point out how social programs often end up costing less in taxes in the long run.

Our healthcare system is the most expensive per person in taxes in the world but we get nothing from it if we switched to universal healthcare we would likely end up saving money in taxes

Use all of the things that conservatives say they value and point out how right wing ideas do not actually uphold these values

Small government

Ice agents rounding everyone up isn’t very small government now is it? Its also very expensive

The constitution

Point out how our constitutional rights are being taken away from us right now

Freedom

Is it really freedom to be controlled by corporations?

Meritocracy

Point out how the game is rigged in favor of the rich

Patriotism

Is it really patriotic to be in favor of laws that hurt your fellow Americans?

agreed. some people are completely unwilling to consider other ideas because they don’t want to be wrong when presented with anything that conflicts with their world view they will double down instead you can see this with cults that make a doomsday prediction a lot of people will still stay in the cult even after the doomsday prediction has been undeniably proven to be wrong they will find a way to continue to rationalize their beliefs and stay in the cult.

I still feel like there must be a way to get through to these kinds of people after all people do still leave cults even after being in them for many years but I’m not sure how to do that.

I find the idea that your politics are ingrained from birth to be harmful and a similar mindset has been used by the right to demonize the mentally ill and criminals I am a strong believer in rehabilitative justice most people are not completely doomed to be bad people even nazis can change their ways.

in my case I considered myself a rightwing libertarian I always had a bit of an anti-authoritarian mindset but it was misdirected by my upbringing and education. I do think there are a lot of right wing people who don’t necessarily like authority you can see this with their skepticism of the government, big pharma, their propensity for conspiracy theories about “elites” but it has been co-opted in a way that does not actually challenge authority.

the right teaches people that instead of rightfully blaming the problems of capitalism on capitalism they find other groups of people for you to blame these problems on and since the education system is so biased a lot of people will just buy into this they don’t know any better they have been lied to in some cases their whole life. I blame the education system so much for the rise of the far right.

I did buy into some bigoted ideas I was transphobic, Islamophobic, anti-immigrant learning the actual facts about this learning that I have been lied to about all of these people I changed my mind and it taught me an important lesson about myself I am capable of hate. a lot of people who are bigoted don’t see it as hatred because they are not seething with anger, for example with my transphobia I thought that they were mentally ill and needed treatment to “fix” them it didn’t come from a place of hatred but pity it is still just as harmful.

my mindset is not the same as it used it has definitely changed can it change again sure but I highly doubt I would ever become right wing again because most of their ideas are thoroughly based off of misinformation and I have spent a lot of time deconstructing that and I also try my best to change people’s minds so I am exposed to right wing bullshit on a regular basis I know exactly why these people are wrong and if I don’t I research.

knowledge is power

mid 20s

I do think it’s possible for older people to change their mind but the longer that they hold on to these ideas the more entrenched they become in their minds and the harder it is for them to change

It worked on me 🤷‍♀️

I used to be rightwing but after learning things about how the world actually works the contradictions were too much and I changed my mind about many things and now I am a filthy socialist.

I have also been able to change a few peoples minds on some things.

All software should be open source.

I don’t think that this will work what will probably end up happening is that the trump administration will only go after democrats who do this while ignoring anything coming from the republican party.

Even if it did I don’t think the response to the trump administration taking our civil liberties away is to take more of them away I don’t think anything positive can come from this.

In addition this will be used as propaganda to rile up their base

If people can’t understand that the trump administration is taking away civil liberties I don’t think democrats abusing the same rules will convince them.

The more people turn away from trump the more effective resistance becomes. We should be encouraging this. Better late than never.

What I do is point out how others oppression can also effect them and the people they care about.

With immigration for example a lot of people don’t care that the immigrants don’t get any due process before being deported / locked in a concentration camp.

if you can convince them this can also effect them you just might be able to get them to care.

If you’re willing to be homeless then sure you can retire

Sorry that was not my intention I don’t think most satanists are Nazis and I am a fan of black metal myself.

There are unfortunately a number of satanist neo-nazi groups such as:

Order of the nine angles

Temple of Zeus (aka joy of satan ministries)

Turku society for the spiritual sciences

I think the reason for this is that Nazis like to infiltrate edgy groups and turn them into Nazis I think edgy teenagers are an easy target to turn into Nazis. After all what is edgier than being a Nazi?

This was explicitly done by joy of Satan ministries on their website they had a “teens for satan” section

https://www.joyofsatan.org/Kids.html

There is also an association between black metal and Nazis which is also associated with satanism

Check on the edgy teenagers In your life to try to make sure they don’t fall into this trap.

Wonder if you could put soy sauce in wax like those wax bottle candies instead

Am I the only one who finds comfort in being insignificant in the grand scale of the universe?

I’m just a speck my problems don’t matter in the grand scale of things I don’t want to be significant I want to be forgotten.