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Old 07-26-2023, 09:08 AM
RickeyM RickeyM is offline
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Originally Posted by donquixote99 View Post
Making a committed radical climb down is sometimes called deprograming. You aren't going to ever ever do it on a message board. Takes long term effort by someone who has a trusted in-person relationship. Only constructive thing you can do on a message board would be a brief contra message that shows the falseness of their beliefs, to help counter the effect of their messaging on third parties.
I agree, we're not going to get through to them on message boards and social media. I have a family member that's gone down the rabbit hole. The recently made a comment about offshore windmills causing whale beachings. A couple of winters ago when Texas's power grid went tits-up she repeated the nonsense about windmill failures being the problem. I informed them that those sources gave a max of 10% of Texas's energy they seemed surprised. All this nuttery they heard on Reich-wing angertainment radio of course.
A question I have yet to get a straight answer for (ever since 2016) is if tRump is so great why does he lie so much? Not one straight answer.
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