I agree and I disagree. We can change hearts and minds. But it requires individual attention, and conversation in person, over extended periods. This is not a job for media—mainstream or of any other kind—it's a job for community.
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Your point almost completely disregards the part that the MSM play in shaping public perceptions, much as I’d like it not be the case.
aug 29, 2025, 1:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Opinions influenced slowly and personally, with conversation, are far more resilient and resistant than superficial notions influenced by media. Right now, progressives are lousy at just chatting and influencing—they're often too pushy to seal the deal.
aug 29, 2025, 1:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Again that comes with the assumption of a balanced and open minded starting point, which is sadly rarely the case in reality. In these open community themed debates, how many people of an opposing view have genuinely changed their stance when you’ve provided them with irrefutable facts?
aug 29, 2025, 1:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Over years, all you need to do is change one person's mind. Why? Because we're all doing it, too. Relax. Slow down. Don't get aerated about hard cases, move on. Talk with people whose minds CAN be changed. Gradually, over time, relationships change opinions. Be funny. Be low key. Be in person.
aug 29, 2025, 1:31 pm • 0 0 • view
This all sounds very nice in theory, but in practice, you can engage in the best willed way and that one person’s opinion you do manage to change is overwhelmed by the abundance of those who become further entrenched due to what they take as fact from the MSM. My time is worth far more than that.
aug 29, 2025, 1:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Don't worry about it—you can always give up! Personally I'm not going to, but, hey, it's an option! Ask, who's in control? Rich, powerful people, or poor, powerless people? It's rich, powerful people for sure! So, how come they tell us it's poor, powerless people who are bringing Britain down?
aug 29, 2025, 1:44 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s not about giving up, it’s about using your time more effectively, which is certainly not wasting it on lost causes. And please save me the demeaning questions when you haven’t been good enough to answer mine.
aug 29, 2025, 1:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Hey, I'm just opening that in-person conversation is hugely powerful, and controlled by us, individuals, not by big media. If you think there's a better medium with which to respond to divisive propaganda, please, tell us—I genuinely don't think there is!
aug 29, 2025, 2:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Who is “us”? I’m speaking to you. There’s a significant contingent of people who won’t just disregard what you say, but use it as a catalyst to double down. They’re not open to change as their prejudices have been sufficiently indulged.
aug 29, 2025, 2:17 pm • 1 0 • view
100% disagree, tell me how many Brexists you’ve converted with facts & truth? The BBC admitted that ‘balance’ during Leave campaign, was on any point of they had 100k experts saying one thing & only 1 saying the opposite, they had one from each position on.
aug 29, 2025, 7:31 am • 5 0 • view
Well I think you may want to reassess. Out of people I know who were gung-ho for Brexit, only a minority still think it was a good idea. Whether that's my influence, or the influence of observable facts, it's hard to know.
aug 29, 2025, 1:07 pm • 0 0 • view
I agree that the BBC were extraordinarily inadequate during the Brexit debate—they remain dangerously misinformative now. But, returning to community activity, it's slow, but powerful. If you can change one person's mind over the course of four years, that equates to a vast swing in public opinion.
aug 29, 2025, 1:11 pm • 1 0 • view
You must, and I mean this genuinely, have a unique sample pool of reasonable people. People I know well, knew before & still know, at best refuse to talk about it. No, zero, nulla online interactions have resulted in a single backward step in 10yrs.
aug 29, 2025, 1:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Online is the wrong place. Try in person. And keep going. Just have normal conversations. Don't explicitly try to convince anyone of anything. Just ask questions, have a laugh, get people to think. Over four years, one of those conversations will bear fruit.
aug 29, 2025, 1:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Here’s the thing…I’m a lawyer, I’m trained to ask questions & choose my words carefully - in respect of any dialogue with leave voters, there isn’t any fucking English language that encourages more than them putting their fingers in their ears. You seem uniquely capable.
aug 29, 2025, 2:04 pm • 0 0 • view
That’s dangerous & stupid and obviously a mass misrepresentation of the factual balance of any debate. But viewers were left believing there was a black & white choice on the weight of evidence provided - but it was 100,000 to 1.
aug 29, 2025, 7:32 am • 4 0 • view