They’ll talk for half an hour about university reform but the moment you ask “who owns the coal mines” or “where does the lithium come from” they say they haven’t thought about it then they get mad at me when I say the Nordic model is fascist

I can bait the ADHD ones into reading theory by simply using enticing vocab words but idk how to deal with everyone else

  • spectre [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    23 days ago

    It is two angles of attack, and it can get convoluted. I guess my goal is to throw out a couple of “bumpers” on the Nordic model like I pointed out above, and then get back to a topic that we have common ground on. Kinda like:

    “yeah I agree that they have a good quality of life under the Nordic model, it’s similar to my vision for what I want for everyone. I have concerns [here] and [here]. I track [other topic] more closely because…” [now you’ve redirected]

    You can’t demolish somebody’s worldview, they’ll need to do that themselves. Your best shot is to open the doors and windows for them to “look outside” and figure it out for themselves. This can take many conversations over many months (depends on their class standing, intellectual aptitude, etc…).