America!
SaniFlush
joined 4 years ago
I still don't know what a Riblet is.
Hmm, I have another take on it.
Nobody wants to think they were "lied to", even if it's true. Westerners default to thinking of themselves as the main character of the story, and swallowing the idea of having been fooled is difficult, nearly impossible. You can't be a victim, can you? That doesn't fit the narrative arc at all.
Come at it from the other angle. Even those people deep in the shit pit of reaction can still FEEL when an atrocity is wrong, even if they twist it into blaming it on minorities or whatever. The right wing runs entirely on feeling, it's literally all they have. The other side of their knife is taking blame away from the self- it's never their own fault, and they never have to sacrifice anything. The other edge of their knife is the dulling and nullification of feeling.
When someone you know- someone shamelessly liberal- agrees with you that an atrocity is indeed wrong, embrace them and build on it. Not "No, but", but instead "Yes, and"! They're feeling something, and the people profiting from their suffering would prefer if they dull that feeling. Instead, link the feeling to facts- "Here is why the bad thing is indeed bad"- and turn that feeling into praxis- "You can fix it!".
Is there any material way we can help?
Maybe we shouldn't have built a country on top of their country.
Try again as an Oath of Vengeance Paladin, AKA unhinged vigilante Paladin. Pretty much the only player choices which can break their code of conduct are not showing enthusiasm for moving the plot forward. I don't think you're obligated to tolerate any oppressors at any point to move the plot forward, and Vengeance has no restrictions about who they're allowed to pick fights with...
Don't worry, Biden is NOT our fwiend.
Badass
Count Olrok?
Someone has stepped on a LEGO!
that's more than my entire family's pooled bank accounts