Well you've probably noticed it takes a long time, you end up dropping knowledge over the course of months till it starts to "click" for people. I wouldn't stress having all the right things to say all at once cause they can't internalize all that anyway.

I think once thing that sets socialists apart from liberals on the ideological conversation front is that liberals retreat and want everything to be "a personal belief" etc (like religion and such). They don't like to be wrong about anything ever, so everything needs to have studies and committees (especially when legislating) to ensure no wrong decision is made, even though the result is a hollow, ineffective, too-late decision at the end of the process.

Socialists will say and do a lot of things, and when we are 80-90% correct it's not bad at all (just gotta clean up after anything that went wrong along the way). To the common liberal it shows. That trust is built quickly and people who have a materialist intuition can quickly rise to be leaders of their community or organization (in whatever form that may be). We tend to be "correct too early", so we need to give the world time to catch up, but people do notice.

....just a few more thoughts, hope it's useful to you...

This is uh, not a productive approach to reducing terrorism.

Notably has a defective battery that caught on fire on some commercial flights in like 2016 I think

Plus he's a state rep. He has something to show for himself already.

They're dunking on us haters and I'm not mad about it (for now).

Listen to the citations needed podcast? Read Chomsky?

Hero move is for someone to bullet point the most interesting parts in the comments for us

Am I reading the article incorrectly? Is that not exactly what it says?

Urbanism focused approach can work with liberals, ease in to talking about how capitalism makes things so isolating and all the community is sucked out of our environment.

Others I usually don't bother with too much.

I kinda suck at persuasion regardless of the way I try to approach political conversations. I just draw a blank when confronted with dumb lib takes and figure out what to say after the fact

In a way you need to "ease yourself into it". If you're on here arguing with people about the finer points of the Iranian response to Israeli aggression or Chinese economic policy, it's hard to shift gears to defusing liberal brainworms when you go offline. In this case it can be easier to just put your succdem hat on since you'll at least be in some proximity to one another ideologically.

I'd almost say you can still call yourself a communist and argue from a socdem perspective, but that's probably just confusing to people in the long term so actually don't.

Mass shooter to be charged with murder for the death of the bystander?

Outbound Israeli flotilla awkwardly floating past the humanitarian flotilla coming the other direction.