We’re on the same team here. I just understand that if you care about an issue, then you need to care about facts. Huge overstatements don’t just weaken the argument, it actively hurts the cause.
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It makes people tune out, gives bad-faith actors an easy opening to discredit everything you say, and misleads people about the scale and nature of the problem.
jun 27, 2025, 9:54 am • 0 0 • view
Exaggeration doesn’t motivate action; it creates hopelessness or apathy. The real numbers are serious enough to justify outrage. By saying the world continues “to crumble around you,” that is sends a message that change is impossible.
jun 27, 2025, 9:54 am • 0 0 • view
If everything is broken, then the next logical emotion is despair. If we stick to the truth—around 1 in 8 Americans lives in poverty—we can talk solutions. We can talk policy. We can mobilize. Facts don't minimize the problem; they make it solvable.
jun 27, 2025, 9:54 am • 0 0 • view
When you use pedantry to obfuscate what people are going through you accomplish nothing. There's no way to reform this and approaching this like you are just leads to more band aid measures. Show people the reality of how awful it is and radicalize them towards ending capitalism, it's the only path.
jun 27, 2025, 1:56 pm • 0 0 • view