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Abolish ICE @addoman.blacksky.app

and let’s be honest, if someone can be swayed away from a cause because someone used a synonym they’re unfamiliar with, what are the odds they vote left anyway

aug 24, 2025, 3:27 pm • 1 0

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Mark Hamann @ki7bda.bsky.social

Giving up on persuading voters who aren't like you. That's the ticket to election victory.

aug 24, 2025, 3:37 pm • 0 0 • view
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Abolish ICE @addoman.blacksky.app

if someone can be swayed away from a cause because someone used a synonym they’re unfamiliar with, what are the odds they vote left anyway if you stop caring about homeless people as soon as you hear “unhoused” you’re weird and I don’t want to know you

aug 24, 2025, 3:39 pm • 1 0 • view
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Abolish ICE @addoman.blacksky.app

That person is never gonna vote for a democrat and I also think MOST people aren’t like this Clearly this is where we disagree

aug 24, 2025, 3:39 pm • 1 0 • view
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Abolish ICE @addoman.blacksky.app

Sorry, I refuse to treat adults like little babies who meltdown when they hear a word with more than 3 syllables.

aug 24, 2025, 3:40 pm • 1 0 • view
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Abolish ICE @addoman.blacksky.app

You know what I think is a better idea than turning your back on progressive causes Actually teaching people what these terms mean

aug 24, 2025, 5:50 pm • 1 0 • view
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Mark Hamann @ki7bda.bsky.social

You don't need to turn your back on any causes to talk about them in the language that a 45 yo high school graduate in a Midwestern state can understand. They aren't dumb even if they don't know that unhoused is the term for homeless "without the stigma of being homeless".

aug 25, 2025, 3:11 am • 0 0 • view
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Abolish ICE @addoman.blacksky.app

also like i said, teaching people what they mean is a much better idea

aug 25, 2025, 3:15 am • 0 0 • view
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Mark Hamann @ki7bda.bsky.social

I haven't read Chris Hayes' book on the attention economy. But it sound like you think attention is free. Have you read it?

aug 25, 2025, 3:19 am • 0 0 • view
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Abolish ICE @addoman.blacksky.app

if a grown adult has no care to learn new words or terms then not only do i have no patience for them, odds are they're a republican anyway you got time to want to help the homeless but you changed your mind because "new word"? and to answer your question: LMFAO BE FR MAN

aug 25, 2025, 3:22 am • 1 0 • view
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Mark Hamann @ki7bda.bsky.social

The problem with your idea is you thing the denotative meaning is the only meaning and that connotative meaning that isn't described is discardable. You are wrong.

aug 25, 2025, 3:25 am • 0 0 • view
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Mark Hamann @ki7bda.bsky.social

Have you ever heard the phrase "meet then where they're at"? It appears in addiction and homelessness work.

aug 25, 2025, 3:17 am • 0 0 • view
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Abolish ICE @addoman.blacksky.app

then meet them where they're at and tell them what the term means lol especially since typing letters into a search engine is too hard now?

aug 25, 2025, 3:18 am • 0 0 • view
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Abolish ICE @addoman.blacksky.app

5 years ago i had no clue what "AAPI" meant so i googled it now i know gasp

aug 25, 2025, 3:18 am • 0 0 • view
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Abolish ICE @addoman.blacksky.app

they are dumb if they hear a word they're unfamiliar with and instead of being an adult and looking it up like an adult should do and like we were taught to do in elementary school they just mentally shut down instead.

aug 25, 2025, 3:14 am • 0 0 • view