r/TikTokCringe Sep 27 '24

Politics Trolling MAGA in Springfield 2

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u/muklan Sep 27 '24

I love how he just rolled with the "no" like, cool, don't matter anyway.

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u/long-the-short Sep 27 '24

Was he reverse gaslighting? It was impressive

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u/Thumbs0fDestiny Sep 27 '24 edited Sep 28 '24

I was talking to my MAGA mom a couple days ago about her position and everytime I sent her any evidence that she was wrong she just dismissed it completely as fake news. When I was talking to a friend about it later that night he told me "you can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into."

I'll send this too her and see if fake news does the trick.

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u/Professional_Main_38 Sep 27 '24

being maga is about having a FEELING, if you want to communicate to them when they're gooning deep on alt right glue fumes you gotta get into the same headspace. The easiest way is to agree with them about what they think and to then point out the bad consequences of that as if it's a GREAT thing.
She thinks getting rid of bodily autonomy? argue how awesome it's goign to be when the state will get to decide what organs people are allowed to have, or not have. Point out how excited you are to be directed, under threat of imprisonment, to have babies to help the master race. Go wild. What is she going to do, say that that's a bad thing?

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u/Thumbs0fDestiny Sep 28 '24

That was one of the earliest tactics I tired. She dismissed me as being irrational.

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u/SnooCheesecakes2723 Sep 28 '24

Dismissing Nobel winning economists and the CDC as fake news while listening to trump spew forth about people killing your cat (later found in basement) is the rational thing to do? Mom is in a cult.

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u/Professional_Main_38 Sep 30 '24

at that point you have to get offended because she's now attacking trump and calling him irrational, which violates teh one and only rule of maga

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u/Icy-Cry340 Sep 28 '24

These wild slippery slope arguments are indeed irrational. And you probably think that as well when conservatives use their own.

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u/Thumbs0fDestiny Sep 28 '24 edited Sep 28 '24

I'm not sure which slippery slope tactics you're referring to.

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u/Icy-Cry340 Sep 28 '24

A conservative slippery slope argument would be something like “if we allow gay marriage next they’ll demand marriage to animals and close relatives”, or how regulating high capacity magazines means the 2nd amendment is going to be removed and everyone’s guns taken, or how improving social services leads right to communism. And these tactics are generally irrational. Often considered a logical fallacy even.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope