• Mouselemming@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    More effective: share start to share your own views on a social issue that’s important to you, and when he interrupts just listen silently until your crush on him is fully and forever crushed.

    • gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      Saying it’s depressing is understandable,

      however as a society we gotta listen to each other instead of just complaining. And a lot of young men have understandable issues with the Democrats. Especially, the constant talking point that “men are all assholes, even worse than bears”, and the like. That severely is something they understandably don’t want to hear. So they don’t vote Democrat (who are more notorious to these talking points).

      Maybe one day as a society we will grow up and end the constant in-fighting.

      • TotallynotJessica@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        A lot of young women have issues with the Democrats. Most Democratic voters have major issues with the Democrats. They kinda suck, especially as champions of marginalized groups. We still need to fight tooth and nail for everything because the party doesn’t want to piss off the wealthy.

        If anything, we can bond over our shared frustration with the Democrats 🤝

        • TheFriar@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          You kinda swerved right around the real issue: class.

          It’s not the democrats, it’s not other races, it’s not gender, it’s not anything that they use to drive a wedge between us. We are all the same and we’re all working class, being intentionally driven apart by issues created to do exactly that. If we can all fight together, we would win. No ifs or maybes about it. It’s their entire goal, to keep us fighting over the made up cultural divisions so we don’t unite under what truly keeps us all down and all disenfranchised.

          Fuck all that they want us to think divides us and join together over what unites us: we’re all getting fucked by the ownership class and it’s time we took them down.

          • TotallynotJessica@lemmy.worldMEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Exactly my point, but people have been conditioned against trigger words like class. I don’t hide that’s what I’m really saying, but I try to present the argument without activating their red scare brainwashing. I don’t even consider myself a Marxist more than I consider myself a liberal, yet it’s still difficult to avoid being branded as such. When they put you in a box, you can’t get through to them and have an honest conversation.

            Capitalism is the problem, but the concept itself is loaded like a landmine. I find that trying to disarm or weaken that trap is necessary if you’re to ever get through. It isn’t fair. It isn’t logical. It’s just the reality we have to deal with.