lol if only we could! i have fantasized so many times about luring them onto a space ship and then boop! right into the sun!
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Iām cranky and probably not bringing my best self to this conversation.
Also I have too many trumpets in my life.
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itās okay, i like your worser self a lot too.
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Yay
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Literally the plot of one of the Hitchhikers Guide books except the idiots were just being sent to another planet.
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A big realization for me was when I was stewing over how it felt like people were voting against my kidsā future. But no one would vote against future so obviously they are seeing it differently.
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Makes perfect sense, and itās also a blast of refreshment to read.
100% no expectation for the reasonable and reasonably well-informed to buddy up with those voting for Trump.
BUTā¦ if you might hope to convert someone from āmoderateā Trump voter to ānotā, it helps to not see them as garbage, do see where they get their information and belief a vote for Trump is a good idea, and finally be able to communicate with them in a way that doesnāt escalate negatively.
Butā¦ such conversions have low success rates, take incredible patience and energy, and there are too many that need to be made. sigh
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iām not sure if this is my ministry or if iāll ever be ready for that, but i do see the sense in it.
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Tangent / Soapbox
I was once hopefulā¦ that the stewards of big tech (social media, in particular) might help here a bit. During COVID, āfact checksā and casting doubt on misinformation was popular.
Of course Trump and friends flipped the script on what ācensorshipā is and where itās most dangerous, so their supporters think censorship is when you let your government tell you whatever they want to, but companies and people donāt āblockā the government from telling you those things. (Same goes for candidates/campaigns and media that supports that.)
āIf youāre not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.ā
ā Malcolm X
So of course Elon bought Twitter and is exercising āfree speechā by tilting the scales of disinformation in his favor. And I think Meta and Google have pulled from back from previous efforts to filter out conservative disinformation campaigns. 
My point overall beingā¦ there are big players with big megaphones that should be helping tilt moderates away from madness en masseā¦ so that individuals arenāt required for such ministry!
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Yup. And bezos prevented the WaPo from endorsing Harris. Itās a really scary time for media.
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Ok I said a few days ago that I wasnāt moving anything around but now I really want to pay off my mortgage. This is mostly so I can have lower monthly expenses and I can quit my job to do good things for the world instead of what Iām currently doing. I am the primary earner and spouseās salary alone will not cover our necessities including the mortgage.
I have a 2.65% mortgage and Iād have to liquidate so much stock to pay it off that my tax bill would be enormous. This is not a good plan. Sigh. I still want to.
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