I know it’s not for everyone but I feel like people forget that if you get frustrated with politics these days, you can run for local office and make bigger changes than you think. Every little change helps, especially in a large town to small city where you can do campaigning without significant funding.
I doubt many people have the extra time for it, but if you’re retired or passionate you can make a lot of difference in your local community.
Sorry I am an American and I’m not exactly sure the processes in this subject regarding other countries, but I imagine many are not too different.
lets be honest, a bluey episode with Bandit sitting with a banner that says “change my mind” would be such an amazing wholesome episode.
Bingo: Dad, ketchup and peanut butter is yummy
Bandid: Looks at the camera realising what he’s gotten himself into
episode ends with him trying and liking it.
Bingo is Australian. He wouldn’t call tomato sauce ketchup.
Fun fact: tomato ketchup was invented by white people who tried to make soy sauce without any soybeans. Ketchup means soy sauce in southeast Asia.
Why do people keep using that shithead as a meme?
Didn’t even know that was the guy in the meme. Not using this format anymore thanks
A random nobody needs to set themselves up similarly with a sign that says
"I’m just here to replace Steven crowder in the memes
Change my mind"
I think the Calvin and Hobbes should be the successor.
EDIT:
Yea, I’d even take an AI version at this point because fuck that guy.
Because it’s the original
Speak for yourself. If I ran for local office, I would lose in a landslide to a “Let’s go Brandon” truck decal.
Very valid. Still I think you’d be surprised how many of those people are uninformed and/or ignorant enough to be swayed by good enough talking points.
Trump won by tricking them that he was for their best interests. It can’t be so hard to win while actually being for their best interests and not for wealthy donors.
My experience tells me otherwise. I’m done trying to talk sense into cultists only to have my hard work undone the second they get home and plug back in to the propaganda.
Does seem that way sometimes. Sadly it may be the only way to peacefully make meaningful change in this awful system…
Better to try to make change happen than give up I guess
There were plenty of ways to make peaceful change. The people responsible did not do them. I wasted way too much of my life trying to change the world one conversation at a time. Human brains are just too susceptible to brute force propaganda. No one person with intelligent arguments can compete with it. There’s no virtue in continuing a hopeless task on principle.
I agree that it seems hopeless. I’m surrounded by people all day spouting propaganda nonsense talking points with no real attention given to conversations I have with them.
But nothing will ever change if everyone gives up. I think there is hope.
Politicians not entirely corrupted by donors are at least mainstream enough to be in the public eye these days, unlike a few years ago. Local exposure to actual reason may be the little push some of these people need to start considering the other side.
Giving up hope in a hopeless task is the first step toward putting effort into something realistic. By all means work toward good in the world, but make that effort count. There’s not much we can do about the massive propaganda machine keeping half the US and more elsewhere brainwashed. That’s not our responsibility. Find something you can do.
How young are you? 😅
Too young to run for anything, sadly
I don’t think it’s naïve to think that doing anything I can to make change is better than doing nothing and complaining that I’ll never make a change
That’s your own Hopium optimism being spooned out onto others from a position of blithe privilege. How quaint, citizen. 🤌🏼
I would have to take a 20k pay cut for any local government position and I’m already barely having anything to save. That’s before needing money to run a campaign.
Elected positions are not designed for poor people to apply.
People should try to find images that arent jpeged to shit. Change my mind.
At least where I am, there are some important and influential positions that are on a volunteer basis, and literally all you do is email someone in the town, say “I’m interested in this board/committee”, and they’re like “cool we meet every other Wednesday, see you then”.
I definitely encourage anyone who is pissed off at feeling powerless to look at your town or city’s website, see what boards and committees might interest you, and start showing up.
Hey you’ll probably like !PLT@sh.itjust.works
I keep up with all levels of government to maximize my frustration and hopelessness.
I’d never run for local office though because my platform would be me not doing the job.
“I can’t possibly fuck it up worse than these dickheads did” is a weirdly compelling platform these days.
