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Time to get back out there and fight back against their bot accounts and MAGA zealots from reframing this stuff yet again. If you deleted your social media accounts then it's time to get them back and actually put content out to refute bullshit. Call out the leftists telling you to disengage or "Don't wrestle with pigs". Fuck the pigs up. It's a numbers game and the more content shared the more opinions will change over time.
If you're all willing to drive multiple states to go stand in the streets to protest once a year, but you can't be bothered to stop the spread of disinformation and their media from getting to the eyes and ears of the general public then it's a bit like you're trying to rebuild a fence after it collapsed rather than just going out there to put some new posts in before it fell.
If you think that only the democrats can solve this. Then don't bother replying. I don't think you're worth any effort or time. If you're response is something about 'democrats aren't doing anything' don't bother. You're weak and nobody should listen to you ever.
So go out there. Stop hiding. Make your views public again.
If everybody started saying shit that maga wants censored, then it would overwhelm the censors. You're absolutely right it's the way to go. We saw this when Luigi rightfully took out that CEO. It's time for violence and it's time to be loud about it.
Exactly, and I keep seeing people quote this 3% rule regarding protests. That it takes 3% of a population to protest to succeed. But it's wrong. It isn't protests. It's opinions. It takes 3-10% of a population to change their opinion on a topic for the whole group to change. This is why Russia and right wing bots and censorship and attacking left wing views until they left digital spaces become so popular. They wanted every post and every comment section to be talking about their views, kitty litter, trans bathrooms, gun rights, woke, CRT, DEA. The left let them get away with this too long. It's a numbers game. Every post from the right must be met with 2 from us. Every comment must be met with 5 more from us. Like Sean Connery said, it's the Chicago way.