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I agree with you, but that's 77 million people. How are you gonna hold them responsible? And I ask sincerely, because something's gotta be done with those assholes. I'd accept them just learning from their mistakes and changing their behavior, but, man, I do not see that happening. I hope it does. I hope to god it does, but I'd be lying if I said I was optimistic about it. And if they won't listen to reason, like, what can we do?
...indoctrinated masses are the intended and natural result of their propaganda machine; you don't redress readily-manipulated people by punishing or culling them, you do so by snuffing their propaganda and educating the population...
...the elephant in the room is freedom of communication...
I certainly didn't mean to imply that we should do that. I definitely don't think we should.
Yeah, but education can't be imposed on people. Not without violence and repression, anyway. They have to be willing to learn, and the Trump supporters I know are some of the most defiantly, proudly ignorant and misinformed people I've ever known.
But maybe the right leader could change that. I don't know.
That's the big question for greater minds than my own. There was a time not too long ago when it was almost universally agreed that fascist authoritarianism and genocide were horrible, and people who subscribed to those ideals did so secretly because it was shameful. Now there are proud supporters of Nazism, and people being openly racist, bigoted, and hateful. Getting our society back to the point where those people at least hid in shame would be a good start. Of course it doesn't make it go away, as we're seeing right now, but there is no way to truly eradicate this type of thinking. As you said, you can't forcibly educate those who are resistant to it, and anything beyond that gets into "thought police" territory.
I don't know what sort of societal engineering that would take, or who would be in charge of it. I think we were all kind of relying on the fact that most people are overall inherently decent enough to instinctively oppose that kind of shit, but it turns out we were wrong.
Denaturalize them. They were cool doing it to others so let them experience the same.
Serious answers only, please.
Oh I’m serious as a heart attack. If we get through this those fuckers need to pay dearly.
Yeah how the fuck are you seriously proposing deporting tens of millions of people. How could that ever possibly happen
Don't be a clown
Concentration camps. They conveniently already built them.