I refreshed several times in wandering back and forth all over Dreamwidth last night and it hadn't corrected on my end (it *still* hasn't, almost a day later...dumped cache/cookies/history, so it's not me) so there's really nothing I can say about that now. VP Kerry would be interesting, though, like the multiverse version of "What if instead of Biden we'd had...[fill in blank] for VP" :)
"If I convince oen, and then one, and then one, and then one"
Yeah, no, look: you have my sympathies as I know the feeling - from pre-general election times onward I was writing for my trolls. Not for my fellow Dreamwidthians, because that's just preaching to the choir. For every hater who thinks Jews are this or Democrats are that or Trump is the second coming of Christ, or whomever.
But after a few years of it I can tell you I'm getting tired of standing on my head/pandering/wasting my freaking time. I approached it the same way you do: "If I can change one mind...just one" *cue network effects* "then yay, I've done something important, here".
But then I read an article saying they're basically unreachable: https://thedailybanter.com/issues/2018/02/07/study-shows-trump-supporters-now-basically-unreachable/ and though that didn't immediately sway me, I am slowing down/will probably slow down some more. You beat your head against a brick wall enough times it hurts and the wall just gets messy. More power to you, though, as I have nothing against the idea, at least not in theory.
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dancing_serpent
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Date: 2018-08-25 04:23 am (UTC)"If I convince oen, and then one, and then one, and then one"
Yeah, no, look: you have my sympathies as I know the feeling - from pre-general election times onward I was writing for my trolls. Not for my fellow Dreamwidthians, because that's just preaching to the choir. For every hater who thinks Jews are this or Democrats are that or Trump is the second coming of Christ, or whomever.
But after a few years of it I can tell you I'm getting tired of standing on my head/pandering/wasting my freaking time. I approached it the same way you do: "If I can change one mind...just one" *cue network effects* "then yay, I've done something important, here".
But then I read an article saying they're basically unreachable: https://thedailybanter.com/issues/2018/02/07/study-shows-trump-supporters-now-basically-unreachable/ and though that didn't immediately sway me, I am slowing down/will probably slow down some more. You beat your head against a brick wall enough times it hurts and the wall just gets messy. More power to you, though, as I have nothing against the idea, at least not in theory.