• snooggums@midwest.social
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    4 months ago

    No, fuck 'em. Positive reinforcement when conservatives finally accept LGBTQ+ family members hasn’t worked and conservatives have only leaned into their bigotry and hatred.

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      4 months ago

      Stop acting like you live in a perfect world where the vast majority of voters are Left.

      In 2024 we need every vote we can get, and if that means treating latecomers nice, it’s better than getting four more years of the GOP.

      Slow motion is much better than no motion.

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        4 months ago

        “Keep doing the counterproductive thing” is a terrible argument.

        Acknowledging their change is fine. Celebrating it and plastering it on the news gives reasonable people false hope that most conservatives can be reasoned with when it is apparent conservstives have a tiny chance to change when it happens to them directly.

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          4 months ago

          Tell me if I wrong but if you show that won’t there also be a positive effect for people who need that last bit of push to finally see it?

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            4 months ago

            You are thinking of reasonable people.

            Only changing when it personally affects them is confirmation that positive reinforcement doeson’t work on bigots. Shame barely kept them from being publicly shitty for a couple of decades, but that was more than positive reinforcement.

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        4 months ago

        molly coddling republicans’ sensitive feefees for the last 20+ years is what led to a world where a trump presidency is possible. TWICE

        no, those “i’m all of a sudden open minded and tolerant” people can eat shit. fuck them