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Re:Waltz's team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for cr... by mmooss on Thursday April 03, 2025 @05:09AM (#43566937)
> I can do nothing

The far right and Trump's biggest support is people acting helpless and spreading their dogma of helplessness. It's surreal to see how effective their propaganda is - this is right out of psyops playbooks. It's truly unmaerican to throw up your hands - nobody is going to do it for you, and anything is possible. That's part of freedom.

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Re:Waltz's team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for cr... by lenerdenator on Thursday April 03, 2025 @09:39AM (#43569456)
I'm not saying "Do nothing", I'm saying "stop reading".

Just reading stuff on social media and tsk-tsking got us nowhere. We have to do more.

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Re:Waltz's team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for cr... by mmooss on Thursday April 03, 2025 @02:50PM (#43573779)
> Just reading stuff on social media and tsk-tsking got us nowhere. We have to do more.

I think it's necessary (to a point, in a certain way) but certainly not sufficient. If you surrender social media to mis/disinformation - as the Democratic Party seems to have done - you're going to lose for sure.

But a persuasive, positive (e.g., not cynical), honest argument sets an example that those things are important and powerful - and they are - and that there is a valid point of view out there.

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