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  • The Right’s opinions are not fact based, so you cannot convince them with facts

    Most rightwing supporters are driven by their emotions, and fall prey to fear mongering and emotional manipulation related to their already existing beliefs like racism and xenophobia.

    To change emotional based beliefs you need to use compassion. They are not your enemy. They are misguided and manipulated souls that need help.

    Treat them as your best friend

    They won’t be open to arguments if they think you’re the devil. So you have to be their friend.

    It’s not necessary to explain everything to them. You can’t change someone’s world view in one conversation. Just show that you’re a reasonable person that is trying to understand them. Gently ask them what their beliefs are and don’t be confrontational. With a bit of time they will open their eyes by themselves.

    Not easy. but I think that this is what effectively creates change.



  • Your right to free speech ends when it turns into terrorism, racism or a call for a coup.

    There are some things that should be banned, such as the twitter accounts that promoted the attempt at a coup in Brazil in Jan 8 2023.

    These are the accounts that the judge asked to be banned. After Twitter didn’t comply they started sending fines and eventually outright banning it.

    Free speech doesn’t mean you can say literally anything. It means the government cannot punish you for your political views. But they can, and must punish racism and anti-democracy speech.

    Also, it’s a misconception that a decentralized service cannot be banned. In fact it’s not hard at all




  • My brother what can they do?? They put diplomatic pressure and sanctions in place but there’s nothing more a country can do to influence another nation.

    There are US and EU sanctions in Venezuela since years. But they still manage to live in their limited space.

    Saudi Arabia is an Absolute Monarchy. They have a king and all that bullshit. The king is a de facto dictator BY DESIGN. that’s their constitution.

    What do you expect us to say?? “hey, how about you abolish your whole political system? Because you know… We kinda don’t like it”

    I don’t like it either bro but it is what it is. We have to live with that bullshit. Unfortunately there is no solution to everything

    Name a dictator that gets political support from the EU


  • Western powers are willing to recognise Putin as the ruler of the Russian Federation

    “A European Union spokesman said the elections were not properly monitored, nor conducted in a free and fair way. The governments of the UK, Germany and the US echoed this.” -BBC on the Russian 2021 elections

    Here’s the article

    This has always happened in the past Russian elections. The EU doesn’t push harder on this topic because they know these efforts won’t influence Russia

    On Venezuela however, there’s a lot more chance that international pressure will cause changes. Maduro GTFO!









  • As another comment noted. If Hamas had more firepower they would use more firepower.

    They are not morally Superior to Israel.

    Hamas started a conflict with an obviously more powerful military. They knew there would be consequences but they still chose violence over diplomacy. Obviously diplomacy in the middle east is terrible but I would never think that attacking civilians is a viable alternative to diplomacy.


  • The history of Palestine is super messy. All sides have committed terrible acts to the other, coming back hundreds of years. Each side can always look at recent history and claim X has provoked Y or Y has caused a disaster on X.

    You can claim this was a provoked attack. I for once can hardly justify an attack on civilians. You can argue, Israel has done worse in the past, and while each side is biased, perhaps you’d be right.

    My point is. This is an endless discussion

    Both sides are bad. IMO the best outcome at the moment is to stop the conflict as soon as possible


  • Man what a terrible choice of words.

    By your standards I could provide a counter argument like: Has any Israeli launched an unprovoked attack on Palestinians and kidnapped 300 of them?

    And then I sit on my biased moral throne and feel the meaningless superiority of my argument

    Reality is not black and white. Both sides are bad

    Hamas launched a horrible slaughter of civilians. they knew it would have consequences. The IDF would obviously retaliate but they are using too much force and causing extreme suffering

    This war should stop as soon as possible. There is nothing to gain in prolonging this conflict



  • Archeology does not build infrastructure to make people’s lives easier but neither does any form of entertainment like Cinema, Music, Theater, Museums and others.

    Medicine law and engineering are wonderful jobs, and necessary to live. But Art, History, Philosophy and Music are things we live for

    It’s fine if you’re not a fan of it, but it’s quite childish to think certain things are of less value because you personally don’t like it.