YOU are speaking!

Have you made any poignant commentary on the recent election in the U.S.? Do you have a good response to liberals who are upset with the results or process of the election? Have you written or seen something as a comment reply/post that you think has standalone value? Did you see a new take or analysis you hadn’t previously considered?

Whether it’s a long idea with lots of context, or a short and sweet one liner, we want those thoughts aggregated here. This post is intended to be a resource for comrades to draw from when having actual discussions outside of Hexbear both online or IRL regarding the election.

Consider this a mini-effortpost aggregator. This is not for shitposts, but humor is completely acceptable if it helps make the point.

  • CoolerOpposide [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPMEnglish
    41·
    9 days ago

    Don’t be smug–be sympathetic. Talk to them about why they think this happened.

    I’m so glad you (and many others) have included this part, because this is such a huge and important takeaway that gets so easily over-analyzed in online leftist spaces, and it’s exactly why I made this post.

    The echo chamber effect will often have us losing sight of the actual goal, but god damn it just feels so good to be correct. That first hit of vindication after years and years of warning liberals that this would happen is euphoric, but extremely toxic if you let it slip into rhetoric.

    Frankly, nobody likes to be wrong, and accepting that can take quite some time for some people. That’s why the most important thing to focus on is giving others the proper tools to analyze what happened. Being smug together can come later when they inevitably find themselves on the same side as you

    • Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      27·
      9 days ago

      Yeah, the place to be smug is here on Hexbear when we’re just talking to each other. If we’re trying to actually reach people and change their minds, its really essential that we restrain the natural urge to dunk. Remember that these people are heavily propagandized, and that many of them were voting for Kamala because they genuinely thought it was the only possible option for producing a better world. Believing that doesn’t make someone bad or dumb when they’ve been told it their whole lives by everything they’ve ever consumed. Rubbing their nose in it now is just going to alienate them from the left even further and make it easier for them to shift blame off of where it belongs and onto us. The goal is to bring new comrades into the movement, and we won’t do that by making people feel bad–we’ll do that by giving them hope that there’s a better way.