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[–] Kbibble@lemm.ee 9 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Or abandon the political labeling system entirely and make it socially outdated by learning to confront someone labeling themselves by responding to them with something along the lines of: "Why would you allow someone else to tell you what it is you believe in? You don't get to decide what being a conservative/liberal means. Someone else decides that. You aren't part of it. So why would you let whoever that is tell you what you should think?"

Change the meaning of what it means to even use the labels and the weapon of using the labels to divide us no longer functions.

It has been dismantled, and they will have to come up with something else.

And just because they will eventually invent a new weapon, does not make it pointless. This is just the never ending metaphorical arms race we are all living in, but it gets easier once you see it for what it is.

[–] Wrrzag@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago

Sorry but this is dumb. I am the one who decides if a label applies to me or not. I won't call myself an anarchist because my beliefs are not described by this word. I will call myself a communist because it describes what I think is true, even if I need to specify ("I'm a communist but...").

There's no one telling me what I believe in, and if a label changes meaning over time or my views change and it no longer applies to my thinking I will just stop using it.

It's the same when you use any other word to describe yourself. "I'm a musician" until I stop playing. "I'm not a painter" until I pick up a brush. "I'm long haired" until I cut my hair.

[–] cute_noker@feddit.dk 5 points 5 days ago

It is gonna be very hard unbrainwash everyone. I was even taught that shit in school, so one dimensional

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[–] teslasaur@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Oh goody. Someone who finally gets it.

[–] bappity@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

there are enough idiots in this world for this to actually work

[–] greenhorn@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I've noticed women on bumble do this. Put moderate as their political affiliation, and list black lives matter and LGBTQ+ and such as their causes. Before this post I would think "elected moderates aren't doing anything for your causes at best," but my perspective as I swipe left on them anyway is a little different now

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

My friend in her 30s avoids dating apps because on those apps, either the guy calls himself a centralist and then wants a trad wife and a woman to know her place, or he calls himself not politically active and only listens to Joe Rogan for the discussions nobody else talks about.

Where my single male friends who are good dudes are afraid every woman is just a OF influencer.

I feel sorry for the dating scene.

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