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This is not how I have understood the criticisms being thrown around Lemmy lately, but I appreciate the perspective. Even so, I'm not sure I can agree that the best solution to dealing with the right is to fight the centrists first, but I can at least appreciate your point in the specific context of the current two-party system.

I wouldn't know. I'm not an American, and not a card-carrying liberal voter on my country.

What I do know is that this constant othering is how these problems were created in the first place. Spending time and energy building straw men on the Internet is creating enemies, not allies. If you are genuinely dedicated to spreading information and awareness, as your earlier post suggests, making assumptions and jumping down people's throats is hurting your cause, not helping it.

We are currently in the process of creating a larger divide in left-minded individuals, and I am unbelievably sick of it. As the right rapidly unifys, we seem to be learning nothing.

Thank you.

Real sick of this argument right now. Just letting the right win because the left-most party is too willing to compromise isn't a moral victory.

Everyone always talks like defeating Trump in the election is the end-all be-all of the disussion. Voting Democrat and preventing Trump from taking the white house should have been an obvious step. It is not the best outcome for the election, nor is it the end of the ongoing decay of late-stage capitalism into wealth-based fascism, but all this whataboutism and strawmanning Democrat voters as believing Kamala was going to single-handedly save democracy is disingenous. It was never "Plan A". It was one minor, marginally better compromise in the collective of shit we should be doing.

Everyone just scrollin' past this post.

Grats!

Calling Warcraft Rumble an RTS is like putting a hamburger patty on a plate and calling it a steak. You're technically correct, but you've also completely missed the point in what people want.

I actually disagree. They're the same kids. The problem isn't that this is a different demographic, or even that the same demographic has suddenly become malicious and ill-meaning. It's that that's not how they see Trump. They're not as educated on his past actions, being too young to vote and therefore too young to care during the 2016 or even the 2020 election cycle. They're bombarded day-in, day-out by news media and social media giving them conflicting information. For many of them, their beliefs boil down to "well, my parents seem to think Trump is good for the economy, and there's too much other stuff to pick through," and a single-issue voter is born.

Others are simply tired of standing for morally and ethically good issues, only to be constantly told that, as young men or white people, they're the issue. When you fight for someone else for so long and are still met with people who blame you for being born just because you seek a deeper understanding (as one 16 year old student in my class recently did when he tried to ask what the problems with Trump genuinely are), it becomes easy to fall into the political sports team paradigm.

And these are far from the only two reasons. But we have to try an understand that the same students who want the environment saved are the ones who vote Trump, because no other option speaks to them.

I'm a highschool teacher. This generation of students isn't even more tech savvy, let alone media savvy. Your exactly correct about the design of modern technology; this generation grew up with tablets and iPhones, they have no idea how to do some incredibly basic tasks unless an app does it for them, and they no understanding of really core - and in my mind simple - computer use concepts like what a folder is, or how find a file on a device and attach it to an email.

We've begun teaching media literacy in the highschools, but it's unfortunately falling into the pitfalls or most education. We pull specialized articles from sources that students would literally never engage with, discuss how to read such articles and how they can be misleading, and never make the connection to the kind of content that students actually absorb. Students are day-in, day-out learning from influencers and social media, and we're handing them articles from 2010 reprinted into textbooks and news posts they'd never have the patience to read, while continually reinforcing that cell phones are toys that are meant to stay out of the classroom and used in private or with small groups of friends.

The kids aren't alright, but that's not on them.

The only people this was a "secret" too are people who weren't looking or listening.

Fuck no. Is this a real question? You think you could come up with away of living that would meet a 99% approval rating? We can't even get a 99% approval rating on thoughts like "education is good" and "killing people is bad".

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