No problem.
I still agree with you and I made a post on another account about a very similar thing.
Start with who you can and work from there.
If you say that someone is stupid it seems you are suggesting that something is fundamentally off with their ability to reason (ie intelligence). If it is a fundamental problem like that then developing the ability to think critically would do diddly squat. In that scenario (If everyone was stupid) the best and only thing you could do would be to ignore them and dismiss their views.
Edit: I am not completely sure in this comment so I am just putting that out there.
The end result is the same but the solution would be different.
I wonder where we disagree?
I agree with you and to add on here is a youtube video about that exact same topic:
Edit: added name of video
I’m fairly certain “ban plastic straws” got so much traction because it diverted from actual issues.
This is a tactic first used (and probably popularized) by the CCP to drown out dissent. It is called the 50 cent party.
They shift the focus off of specific events like uprisings and riots to things that are more palatable like parades and philosophical discussions.
And what makes it worse is that the more people know about it the more effective it is because it just makes the public distrust others more and default to whatever the social norm is which is CCP control.
I bet that other countries and corporations do the same thing and use the idea of bots to sow distrust in the general public.
Edit: The false premise would be that intelligent alien life is on earth and the government has been able to hide it this well. I bet that it is likely that somewhere in the cosmos there is at least a proto-proto bacteria floating in a shallow pond minding its own business.
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But for sure I’m sick of being told to placate and empathize with the irrational deplorables yet again.
I think I gave my thoughts on this more in this comment.
A specific server for piped is broken. Other servers still work. It is a federated service like lemmy.
I can't tell if you are agreeing or disagreeing with my previous comment but as for the power structures I view people that have these beliefs as the people that are at the bottom and that people that benefit from these beliefs (CEOs, Governments, etc.) as people at the top.
Therefore the action that people can be taking to make things better is building bridges with the people at the bottom in smart and targeted ways.
I think that people (as in a group of people) can be both really dumb (groupthink) or really smart (collective wisdom) it just depends on how they are networked with each other.
I linked this post in another comment but it is also relevant to this.
post: https://lemmy.world/post/2607525