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Revolutionary Ghouli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 49m

Jason, upon seeing me in my hooded sweater dress overlaid with a second, fuzzier long sweater: “Wow, you are fallpilled and comfortmaxxing.”

Hells yeah I am 🍂🍁

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Revolutionary Ghouli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 1h

Simply writing all these people off as monsters doesn’t Thanos-snap them away and replace them with an electorate of well-educated, thoughtful news junkies.

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Revolutionary Ghouli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 1h

I’m focused less on who deserves condemnation and more on how we can realistically make things better given the voters we have. Most Americans are shockingly ignorant about current events, have very short memories, and don’t think terribly deeply about political philosophy.

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Revolutionary Ghouli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 2h

Alright, since you’re a member of the Elect, how would you suggest we punish the ~77 million sinners who voted for him? Shall we have them all put to death? After all, they are innately evil and incapable of change. The death penalty seems the only way to rid society of such irredeemable monsters.

Revolutionary Ghouli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 2h

A lot of voters will just reflexively vote for the other party if things are going badly for them, or the same party if things are going well, and that’s the extent of their thoughts about politics. To ignore the existence of those people is to ignore most American voters.

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Revolutionary Ghouli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 2h

Admittedly, I didn’t have as clear a view of people who voted for him last year — though from what I’ve read, he was pushed over the top mostly by working-class people who were (and still are) struggling and have never paid close attention to the news but just wanted something to change.

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Revolutionary Ghouli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 2h

I centered 2016 because that was when I most clearly saw people slowly undergoing the mental transition from “This guy is horrible” to “But I have to vote for him anyway” to “Actually, he’s GREAT and I have NO cognitive dissonance to resolve in any way!”

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Revolutionary Ghouli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 2h

And I’ve personally seen a number of his voters (including enthusiastic ones!) admit they were wrong, and move dramatically left even in spite of the judgment they face from liberals. So there absolutely is a way back, but we can also make it easier by extending some grace to these new converts.

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Revolutionary Ghouli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 2h

Again, it depends on who you mean by “they.” His enthusiastic supporters are not 100% of the people who voted for him. Like, the one guy I knew who voted for him in ‘16 did so reluctantly, believing he was the lesser of two evils in the same way I voted for Clinton reluctantly, believing the same.

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Revolutionary Ghouli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 2h

To resolve that cognitive dissonance not by admitting they were wrong to vote for Trump but by convincing themselves that Trump is actually a GREAT man. There IS no contradiction: you’re a good person who voted for a good person! And he’s making America great again!

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Revolutionary Ghouli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 2h

And seeing posts like yours, asserting that all Trump voters voted out of a love of evil, doesn’t help. Like, no one’s obligated to be friends with Trump voters, but this attitude does make it so there’s no way back. And that does create the incentive to just double down.

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Revolutionary Ghouli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 2h

Most people need to believe they’re good people, and it’s really hard to hold in one’s head multiple ideas: “I’m a good person.” “I voted for a horrible man.” It’s also hard for people to admit they made a mistake.

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Revolutionary Ghouli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 2h

You could see a lot of these people start out as never Trumpers in the 2016 primary, then try to justify their vote by saying, “Maybe he’s like King Cyrus — a bad man and an unbeliever who can nonetheless do good things.” But there’s cognitive dissonance there.

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Revolutionary Ghouli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 2h

Or Republicans who found him personally distasteful but couldn’t bring themselves to vote for a Democrat. A lot of people held their noses to vote for Trump in ‘16 the way I held my nose to vote for Clinton.

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Revolutionary Ghouli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 2h

It really depends on the voter. The enthusiastic supporters did. But enthusiastic supporters have never been enough to win any election. Trump needed a much larger group of people who weren’t paying much attention and thought “He seems different and things are shit — might as well give him a try.”

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Revolutionary Ghouli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 2h

Especially when their homeschooling curriculum teaches formal logic and rhetoric because “classical = old-fashioned = good.” The kids eventually turn those logic and rhetoric skills on conservative Christianity.

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Revolutionary Ghouli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 2h

If you’ve delved at all into the world of “exvangelicals,” you know that, while the PLAN might be to indoctrinate their kids into their ideology and isolate them from diversity indefinitely, things don’t always go according to plan.

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Revolutionary Games @revolutionarygames.co · 3h

Donate to a local food bank by November 15, send us a receipt, and we'll give you an equal value in free membership on our Patreon. You tell us what tier you'd like ($1/mo, $3/mo, or $5/mo), we'll divide your donation by that and give you that many months free. www.patreon.com/cw/revolutio...

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Revolutionary Games @revolutionarygames.co · 3h

Donate to a local food bank by November 15, send us a receipt, and we'll give you an equal value in free membership on our Patreon. You tell us what tier you'd like ($1/mo, $3/mo, or $5/mo), we'll divide your donation by that and give you that many months free. www.patreon.com/cw/revolutio...

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TTRPGkids 🔜 U-Con and Pax Unplugged @ttrpgkids.com · 4h

I just released a game about Irish werewolves (Faoladh)!

Explore 3 stories that explain the shifting legend of the Faoladh and the actual extinction of wolves in Ireland as you set up and use your map through different phases of play.

Find out more here, and happy gaming!
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Nic McConnell @mcconnell.bsky.social · 1d

World Central Kitchen is mobilizing to Jamaica, please consider donating

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A.🌻 @alexxaye.bsky.social · 18h

It’s important to remember that community care doesn’t have to come in the form of $100s in donations or dropping off pallets of food.

Sometimes it’s picking up an extra rotisserie chicken for a neighbor, or doing a grocery pick up for an elder, or helping someone with laundry or childcare.

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isaac @sevier.io · 3d

Have you ever heard of "heat or eat"? It's what it's called when people have to choose -- groceries or paying their heating bills.

No SNAP means more people won't be able to afford energy either. If you've already donated, take one more step and call to support an emergency ban on utility shutoffs👇

Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · 22d

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Revolutionary Ghouli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 16h

Here’s one! I hope they can help you as you help others, even in your moment of need. www.utahfoodbank.org

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Bloody Hield 🎃🦇 @velodus.bsky.social · 23h

I like how Zohran Mamdani scandals are like "He called his old cousin his aunt one time" and Andrew Cuomo scandals are like "He sexually assaulted 13 women."

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