That’s reasonable

Thanks! The trick is to understand the emotions they aim for and the baseline rhetorical tricks.

Conspiracies stem from knowing you’re getting fucked, but that most people are good. It’s an attempt to find explanations when the world feels wrong. Someone did it. You just have to sell the truth in the tone that they’re used to hearing. Especially with vaccines where the truth does sound like a free lunch, until you realize that it’s governments and insurers paying for vaccines and it saves them and the economy money by you not getting sick or needing stronger medicines. These are the two groups that desperately want you to exercise, eat right, and quit smoking

The vaccine one would probably be better as: “independent thinking researchers developed a means of using your own body’s immune response to prevent diseases with a mere injection. Some of them even refused to patent it. But then the media started lying to you about them, trying to get you to stop accepting these miracles? Why, just so some companies could make more money selling you proprietary snake oil to keep you comfortable while you’re sick.”

I want the Russian empire to allow its people and its neighbors to live freely and as equals. Until that day I will oppose their government

Yeah, not only did I vote against this, my demographic hit 94% for Harris.

Oh shit, that’s the first person I ever voted against! As a 17 year old I registered as a republican specifically because I hated him.

I will never vote for a democrat who opposes trans rights. I’ll encourage my friends not to as well. They want these stupid games they can have the prizes that come with

The far right recruited young people online in the ‘00s and ‘10s. Gamer gate was when it broke containment. That was men my age (30) and a bit older and younger

Sad others among us will have to pay more than those that caused the problem. But such is America and so is history.

Hey, I’m pretty sure we had a consensus from March to November of 1917. And why there was a solid half of the Spanish civil war we were in agreement

Exactly. Trans rights, radical climate solutions, but also yeah we need to work with young men to help them feel less isolated and vulnerable to the far right. We need to be talking with rural people as people not just over them

I can excuse any amount of harm done to you, but I draw the line at anything that affects me

I honestly wouldn’t be able to say which job I would expect to get her more sexual harassment.

And that’s why I didn’t feel like I was betraying Palestine by voting for Harris

Why? It’s a logical outcome of the combination of mass surveillance and draconian anti abortion laws. This is the sort of shit the judicial construction of the implied right to privacy was kinda built around stopping. This is just straight up the sort of shit Snowden warned us of.

So yeah, the federal government (and likely state as well), who have the data from your personal devices to understand far more of your sex life than you want your friends knowing, much less your Senator, are able to purchase or subpoena data from menstrual tracking apps and will do as the law tells them to. The law, meanwhile is written by a group of people who are vastly disproportionately elderly men with little to know understanding of any branch of science or medicine. A group notable for comments like the assumption that ecoptic pregnancies can be replanted and that presenting a snowball disproves global warming. The one gynecologist of note to have been in Congress in recent memory being Ron fucking Paul, who incidentally was anti choice.

To sum my previous paragraph to a thesis statement: people who have no idea how bodies work and couldn’t tell a Skene’s gland from a vas deferens and disproportionately think pee comes out the vagina get to decide the rules by which people who know every aspect of your life that they choose to look for decide if your menstrual irregularities are normal or an illegal abortion.

Unfortunately I’m in the process of fleeing my state that I’ve always been proud of its Union history. The Confederates have taken the home of Sherman, grant, and brown in a bloodless coup… This ain’t the Ohio that was my home anymore, it needs to be reconstructed just as surely as Virginia

I’ll take it over an uncontested fascist takeover

Yeah. The best time to do this was a week ago. The next best time is for the next four years

It’s nice to see this war proving that nuclear disarmament is unwise both for peaceful nations wishing to maintain stable borders and for aggressor nations seeking to invade the neighbors who gave up their nukes.

Like, given Ukrainian history it’s kinda shocking they gave them up, even with all the assurances they were given.

Good. Bring on the economic pain. The worst case scenario is if he actually improved things while doing the evil he promised