• Smoogs@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    edit-2
    1 day ago

    I always overestimate a maga’s ability to read or hear things that are actually said. I keep giving them the benefit of the doubt. I keep being hopeful. And then promptly let down.

    EG: Always expect the people on jubilee actually researched their own question with the idea they accurately quoted the problem they actually have with the previous dem governments.

    Almost without fail: Then the person answers and EVERY TIME they are correcting a misheard quote that the right are trying to morph into the argument they want to have.

    And then the right side panel comes in as a double down on how woefully off the mark the right are.

    I mean I get it, they are frustrated. And most have reason to be but it takes so much to get to the rub. they seem heavily distracted from discussing what their real problems are and it takes these patient people to decompress the fact out of it to address the real problem.

    EG this woman had an issue with a doctor. Felt ignored. Was ignored. Blamed the left. Misquoted a bunch of stuff that she had been programmed to say. Watched a doctor deconstruct it for her during jubilee just so she could actually be heard regarding a problem that affects both the left and the right.

    It took all that.

    Just seems right politics are about distracting frustrated people just to use them. And it’s really fricken sad.

        • zmrl@lemmy.zip
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          8 hours ago

          Its a channel on YouTube that makes these surrounded videos that are often political where they get 20 of x vs 1 of y where both groups are opposed in some way. 20 people sit around the 1 person and they race each other to the middle seat to debate on whatever the prompt is. Some of them can be interesting, but it often gets pretty toxic and generally doesn’t feel productive and more just like political entertainment.