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Cake day: July 11th, 2023

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  • To be clear, I completely understand and agree with your point. However, posts trying to convince people to vote using half-baked metaphors like these are, to use the evangelism analogy in this post, the equivalent of internet atheist edgelordism. In some ways, they do more harm than good in conveying the point.

    What ultimately helped me get out of the strict revolutionary mindset were actual anecdotes and examples. The ultimate idea fueling these people is that the system is designed to screw everyone over, and in some ways it is. But you have to show them that it can be an effective method of harm reduction at the very least.

    Metaphor can be helpful, but it has to tread a fine line. If it’s too exaggerated then it comes of as unrealistic or condescending.

    That’s just my take on this though.