@mekkaokereke fair enough. To further clarify, I'm not seeking middle ground with fascists. I'm looking to capitalize on a rare occurrence when they move in my direction. In my particular case, if my brother comes to me saying Trump's tariffs put him out of a job, but yet he still hates LGBT+ folks, I'm trying to figure out whether I tell him shat in his bed, now sleep in it, or whether I should encourage him to consider other people Trump is negatively impacting.

I agree that he probably lacks the ability to empathize, and so this is largely a pipe dream. I'm mainly considering this for my Mom, who really doesn't like the family conflict my brother started by being a fascist.

@mekkaokereke I hear all of that. I also think if I laugh at them when they're in a moment of reflection bc Trump just ate their face, they're less likely to move in our direction.

Even if they're still a racist, they might be an anti-Trump racist, which is progress of some kind. It's unlikely that someone is going to flip to a full antifascist/antiracist stance just because they lost a job or health insurance. 🤷🏻♂️

To be clear: fuck everyone that voted for Trump. I do not care why.

@mekkaokereke I feel like we should welcome these idiots to the anti-Trump fold after he's eaten their face, but I suspect that the roots of them voting for the face-eater are not resolved. Any advice here?

A big part of me just wants to point and laugh at these idiot Trumpers that Trump is now devastating.

@mekkaokereke you are such a badass. I keep showing these to my son the lifter, wrestler, thrower

@mekkaokereke Thanks! "The Political Causes of the College Enrollment Crisis" also ignores that the total population of Republicans has grown faster than the total population of Democrats because Trumpism has converted independents and apolitical folks. I posit that many of these skeptical Republicans were formerly apolitical.

@mekkaokereke Do you have a link to the later post? The closest I could find was this Pew study that only slices by white college-educated voters, and doesn't separate by gender. I would really like to see this broken out by gender, race, and college education as well as by population counts.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2018/03/20/wide-gender-gap-growing-educational-divide-in-voters-party-identification/

@mekkaokereke I missed this thread and TIL about those terms. :(

@mekkaokereke I showed #Ben (16) Gladiator 1 a month ago, and now he wants to see Gladiator 2. I was skeptical it would be any good, but I think we're going to see it tomorrow

@mekkaokereke yeah, last year when Sam and I went to Ben's Varsity discus practice, his discus coach (also the football lineman coach) asked if Sam had football plans. I told him the rules are the same for him as for Ben. I'm sure these coaches are sad that the biggest kids in their class aren't on the line, but meh

@mekkaokereke welp. I guess that means BlueSky is going to ultimately win. I created an account there today. I'm just sad I slept on it so long that I didn't get an account for StealthMountain. I suppose I should stand up my own instance for him anyway lol

@mekkaokereke regarding his bodyweight, he never tried to gain, it just happened, and he got into lifting bc he was big already. I've told him he'll probably need to address weight once he stops growing. We'll talk to his doctor at his physical and see what they say. He works out a lot and still runs a 33m 5K. I feel like as long as he keeps in good cardio shape he's ok as a teen. I don't want him to worry about weight until he's full grown. I kept growing until I age 20.

@mekkaokereke since you're connected to sports and risk, do you have any opinions on wrestling? I did some reading before letting #Ben (16) participate, and while it isn't risk-free, it seems less dangerous than football, soccer, hockey. I told Ben he gets one concussion, and then he's done. I'm more concerned that he's going to have to go on a cut to stay weight-eligible. (He has to stay under 285lbs to wrestle, and he's 270 now.)

@mekkaokereke I feel no sorrow for Jake or Logan Paul's decisions. These guys aren't clinging to boxing as the only way out of a broken racist system. They're just chasing fame and money however they can, and I have no problem with whatever consequences befall them.

@mekkaokereke I did something similar with fascists in my family. When invited to an event, I told the host that if the fascists were going to be there, and if they said something racist/fascist, I was probably going to ruin the event, and if they'd rather that not happen, I would not attend, and I gave them the choice. They chose not to have me attend, which told me all I needed to know.

@mhoye change the xkcd cartoon from govt agents beating someone with a wrench to an abusive husband beating someone with a wrench, and maybe these sheltered nerds will believe it.

https://xkcd.com/538/

@mekkaokereke one of the headlines about her read "The Latest about Niki Haley's Race", and I immediately thought "Did she quit trying to pass as white?"

@nicklockwood @polygon this was actually the original story. Elsa was supposed to be a straight villain, and Let It Go was going to be song opening her turn to evil.

(I heard this on one of the director commentaries.)

@mekkaokereke I'm sure you've mentioned this before, but Mastodon search is terrible, so could you please say again what features Mastodon is missing that would help alleviate abuse Black people face here?

@LauraLangdon @acdha @mekkaokereke @bluejekyll this same thing happened in St. Louis in the 1990s when the light rail system proposed a line out to the exurbs where I grew up.

"People from [Black neighborhood] are going to ride the [light rail] out here and steal your TV!"

🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️

@mekkaokereke @longobord I find this lack of algebra understanding common, and I feel like the solution is more algebra with a variety of pedagogy and no skipping. Lots of people say they understand things, but they really just memorize the mechanics. Algebra is the most important part of K-12 math curriculum, and schools should ensure maximum understanding even at the expense of boredom for "gifted" kids because it's very hard to tell when someone actually understands.