Comments by "" (@MeanBeanComedy) on "Can Leftists Be Deradicalized? Yes!" video.
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It takes a handful of different kinds of people to "deradicalise" the commies and socs. In my experience, you have:
1. The "pebbles in the shoe" (that's me!) that feed people objective facts and just wait. You will NEVER sway someone immediately just feeding them stats and data and facts with sources. What you will do, however, is keep them up at night. If he's a thinking man, your data will be bouncing around in his head all day for weeks, months, or sometimes even years. That's why I call it the "pebble in the shoe." You know how when you have a rock in your shoe, it bothers you for every step until you eventually have to stop and take care of it? Same thing with a redpill. Telling someone about the wage gap being an earnings gap that doesn't even adjust for the fucking job, or about defensive gun use cases researched by the CDC, or other similar topics, will force him to eventually have to come to terms with the new information. But that's not all.
2. The "shoulders to cry on" (NOT me!) that are just generally sweet people on the right or middle that are more understanding and empathetic who do a good job understanding what a commie is going through. People don't become communists because their lives are going well!! 😆😆😆 Usually, women are better at this, but that doesn't mean a man can't do it. (Giving a noodle-armed Marxist weightlifting and nutrition guidance as a man can help, though!) It's an emotional toll to transition away from this cancerous ideology, and having some open-hearted, caring individuals to talk to can REALLY help out with the arduous journey.
3. The Intellectuals (Maybe me...😏😏😉) who give them a well thought-out argument for a fleshed-out belief system. There's no shortage of pseudointellectuals on the left with atrocious ideas that always fail, and the dopamine hit you get from reading some esoteric nonsense about "liberation" and "false consciousness" and feeling like you're privy to some special, precious, divine wisdom that others don't possess is appealing to someone who isn't very good at much else and has very little going for him. Replacing that epistemological architecture with something with some real-world practicality and substance can help them still feel like there's some thought involved with their new belief system. The stereotype is that the right is a bunch of dumb-dumbs who don't realise that all we have to do is "think our way" out of things like ethnic differences and scarcity, so showing them actual thinkers like Sowell, Burke, Friedman, Hayek, Locke, a few Conservative Judges like Thomas and Scalia, and even Buckley can help them still feel like they're big-brains (even though they likely aren't, or never were--sorry. 😕)
4. Stoic Upstanding Citizens who don't really get in the muck or argue or debate TOO much, but still exist as a good example that right-wingers and classical liberals and libertarians aren't all wignats or trilby-wearing edgelords. They're your local businessmen, lawyers, doctors, fathers, husbands, wives, mothers, and other upstanding citizens who vote R or L and live lives that honour their Nation, their People, and their God. It's pretty easy to be this person, and we have WAY more people like that on our side than the Left, which is overflowing with spiteful mutants and degenerates.
5. Satirists and Jokesters to mock their garbage beliefs. (DEFINITELY me!) Don't go too hard on the poor bastards, but good-faith mockery and satire can go a long way to helping someone see why his beliefs are based in fantasy. Most of you blokes seem to already have that down pat, so I won't go too verbose with this point, but you have to strike a sweet spot here between the "SO MUCH FOR THE TOLERANT LEFT" squishy-cons who fecklessly throw individual grains of sand that worthlessly bounce off the leftists who never pretended to be tolerant in the first place and the HEAPING LOADS OF AUTISM that /pol/ trebuchets at them on the daily and only pisses them off more. You also have to try to get them separated from their group to poke fun, otherwise they retreat to their horde and placate their panicking minds with tankie "memes" and fantasising about writing poetry on their utopian commune.
So there are the five types of people needed to metaphorically "knock" the commie back to reality. Good luck, lads! 😁👍🏻
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