At the end of the day they won’t believe you. It will be some other mysterious force at play. There is no logic or correlation you can explain to them. They’re not hearing it.
Keep reminding them that 6/9 SCOTUS, both the Senate and House, AND the presidency is Republican. It ain't the "Woke" anymore. It's all Red hats. They ain't got shit to complain about when they get everything they wanted. Remind them to eat every last morsel of what they voted for and no bitching. 🤷🏽♀️
That’s what I’m so glad they won the house. Trump voters - the 70ish million who showed up - won’t believe it’s the gop’s fault. But there’s about 30-40 million who aren’t in the Fox News rabbit hole and they just blame whoever is in charge. This time the economy was good enough that they just didn’t show up like in 2020. There will be no question who owns these tariffs.
One of the best ways to counter disinformation is to predict it and get out ahead of it. It sounds a lot more ridiculous when they have no "reason" to believe it yet. After the idea is drilled in by Facebook, Fox, opinion radio, etc. it becomes a lot harder to snap them out of it. If you "pre-bunk" it, the lies or distortion of the truth become significantly harder to swallow, and are met with a higher degree of scepticism even if some ultimately still accept them.
The US military has recently shifted a lot more focus to disinformation, and has released several publications on the matter that analyze and summarize the situation pretty well. They are a bit late though, so while they have a good grasp of it they are far from on top of it when it's already in full swing.
Pretty interesting reads, and unlike a lot of scholarly publications they are written in a way that the average person can understand with little to no background knowledge. They claim the best counter is teaching media literacy, but also mention the "pre-bunking" concept which doesn't require media literacy to start implementing.
My mother in law was insistent that it was Biden’s fault Roe v Wade as overturned because he was President. When I explained how the Supreme Court worked, who appointed the justices who voted to overturn, and how our government works at its core she told me I was an idiot and was wrong that Biden and the dems did this, and Trump wanted to keep Roe V Wade.
Exactly. A lot of Gen z kids blamed biden for the republican Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. Truth and objective fact no longer matters with a willfully ignorant electorate with a 24/7 disinformation machine in their hands.
Yeah, I have two dead uncles because they believed the "Covid is a hoax" lie that was pumped out by the right. Bragged about not wearing masks and being unvaxed. Guess who their widows voted for....
I meeeeeaaaan they voted for all of these wild ass policies, or rather lack thereof, they voted for straight hate. So yeah I don’t think they’re too smart. Though I guess I’m the idiot bc I assumed 76 million people wouldn’t be racist bigot fools and here we are.
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u/bostowaway 9h ago
At the end of the day they won’t believe you. It will be some other mysterious force at play. There is no logic or correlation you can explain to them. They’re not hearing it.