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“I Didn’t Vote to Lose My Job”: DOGE Destroys $1.2 Trillion Industry as Rural Workers Bear the Cost (thedailyadda.com)

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Terry Zink has spent 57 years building a life in Montana’s backcountry. The 57-year-old third-generation houndsman from Marion—a remote town nestled deep within the Flathead National Forest—runs a small archery target business serving outdoor recreation workers and guides who, until recently, had steady employment managing America’s public lands. Contents

Those workers are disappearing. Their jobs are gone. And Zink, who voted for Trump in 2024, is watching his customer base—and his livelihood—vanish before his eyes.

“You won’t meet anyone more conservative than me, and I didn’t vote for this,” Zink told Politico reporters as he surveyed the damage. “You cannot fire our firefighters. You cannot fire our trail crews. You have to have selective logging, water restoration, and healthy forests” (1).

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[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

the best way to do that is by having a two-way conversation.

Man I hate to tell you this, but here's how that's going to go.

"You want my help dismantling the Trump regime and the oligarchy? Ok, I'll help, but only if you agree to criminalize being gay, trans, black, or brown."

A. You agree, and forsake LGBT and minority communities.

"Good, so first step- wait, what's that? A LIMITED EDITION TRUMP 2028 HAT??? Sign me the fuck up!"

B. You disagree.

"Then get fucked shitlib, I'm calling ICE and telling them to fuck you up."

C. You convince him the oligarchy is the real enemy, not Trump (Requires SPEECH 100) or trans people (Roll Persuasion with disadvantage).

"See, you get it! The globalist Jews..." He carries on and you pretend not to listen. "But when I become a billionaire, I'm gonna do it right!"

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 1 points 19 hours ago

Yeah, that's how the first few conversations tend to go. Then some time later, can be weeks or months later, they notice something that resonates with something you said to them, and it's the first crack in their absolute belief in their world view.

people rarely, if ever, change their views from a single interaction, but they can change, and all it takes is for us to hold back our impulses to rub their noses in the mud and the time/patience it takes for us to show them an alternative in a way that they don't immediately reject.

with trump, the epstein stuff, and affordability crisis, right wing ideology has never been more exposed and vulnerable in my entire life.