Positive social change can be changing one person’s mind.

If all of us change just one persons mind, and they at some point in their life change another persons mind, that could change the mind of a whole population over time, every small victory counts and adds up.

Sure if you talk to bigots you might not be able to change their mind, but labelling someone as a bigot before checking could alienate a potential ally.

I feel we might be going a lil off topic here, my point wasn’t specific to Left vs Right.

It’s more a general point to not attack imperfect allies but constructively try to guide them.

Eg. I often on here see people talk about reddit or link to reddit, only to be attacked for still using Reddit. Come on? This person is a Ally, they’re using Lemmy/PieFed and probably moving away from Reddit but not yet ready to fully jump ship.
Let’s not shit on people who use Reddit alongside PieFed/Lemmy

I don’t think it’s that black and white, my mind has definitely been changed through polite discourse.

Yea Constructive criticism is good and needed, but like you said Tone matters.

It really matters, if you have a hostile/judgemental tone you’re not going to get through to most people.

I’m not sure if you get the point I’m trying to make.

Aka. We should stop rejecting/alienating imperfect allies.

Saying nothing is fine

Oops sorry, I might be a bit lysdectic 😅 my spelling and typos are horrible

Thanks for the correction & I 100% agree with you

OMG a YouTube link, disgusting. You should never use YouTube, don’t you know they are a big tech American firm supporting the Trump regime

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It’s exhausting, I already know all these things, I’m trying my best :(

I think we should be calling out these criticisms, and promote an environment where people can take baby steps in the right direction. It’s a marathon not a sprint.

I think we should be calling out these criticisms, and promote an environment where people can take baby steps in the right direction. It’s a marathon not a sprint.

Hey, this is the Fediverse.

Let’s be different, let’s be nice to each other.

Nice website and idea 👌

Sure but it creates tragic, and they might click around and subscribe, maybe search for it in the future.

It’s a marathon not a sprint

Doesn’t have to be money, but putting in some effort into basic SEO could drive more users here and away form Reddit etc.

Be the change you want to see, I’ve been sending links like https://piefed.social/post/1062918 to friends and family when I see interesting things or funny memes

Agreed, I hope the same for other Subs

Do not reject imperfect allies, r/BuyCanadian is still a force for good, it’s helped many find the Fediverse and Canadian products

The same reason why people who believe in crystal-healing are easy to manipulate.

Because they have glaring gaps in their rational thinking ability

No no no, not like this…

America is barely a democracy, you either choose Democrats or Republicans.

Both of them are horrible options, one clearly far worse than the other, but both suck.

In practice you have one more government to choose from than a dictatorship