Mongostein @ Mongostein @lemmy.ca

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Like Tom from MySpace. Dude sold it off and now lives a carefree life pursuing photography

Uhhhh… they are canon?

Everything is easy to explain.

Steve went back after the events of Agent Carter S2. She kept his return a secret, even from him as she died. He lived under an assumed name.

Inhumans are still around, we just haven’t heard from them in a while.

As soon as they started any timey-wimey stuff in Agents of SHIELD they were in an alternate timeline and returned in the end.

As for Mack-led SHIELD, they’re laying low as they rebuild. Fury is with SWORD now. We can catch up with anyone else as we need to.

No no, that was the old washer setting pants on fire.

Landlord just got me a new washing machine. I’ve been burning it in since Sunday.

$10.00CAD OR $6.90USD for 30 here in Canada.

I know :(

Where are all the 2nd amendment nuts now? This is literally what it is for!

Stand up for your countrymen, cowards!

Holy fuck. You think it was an Epstein thing? Like he said to Elon, “Get those kids out. Send a couple to the island and we can say they died.”

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I agree. I don’t know enough about all the different models, but surely there’s a model that’s not going to tell you “<whoever’s> government is so awesome” when asking about rainfall or some shit.

Yesssss. Fucking do it, Singh!

That is the dumbest take.

Yeah, but you have to run a different model if you want accurate info about China.

Well, now I have my donation list for the next four years (everyone suing him). Those that accept them anyway.

I dunno, you tell me. I wasn’t making an argument just answering your dumb ass question.

By whoever put them on the plane they were on on Trump’s order that is mentioned in the post we’re talking about.

I agree

Yeah right, you give me that much wine and I’m eating all the escargot.

Wow. In St. Albert, the whitest of the rich white suburbs. What brave souls.

Jesus Christ. Elon is the giant face on the screen from 1984???

It’s hard.

My brother was deep in to this shit when our mom died. He was living with her and had no where to go.

So he started living with me.

I had to be an asshole about it at first. IE: in reference to the conservative media he’d watch all day I said something to the effect of “turn that hateful shit off or find somewhere else to fucking live” at one point.

Once I got him to reduce the amount of bullshit he watched it was easier to point out a couple things that would resonate with him. Like:

How the media he’s watching is always telling you how you should feel about the news. I didn’t tell him what to watch, but explained that journalists aren’t supposed to be telling you how to feel about the news, this is a manipulation tactic.

I also pointed out that the media he was consuming was constantly telling you what “the leftists” think. I told him that if he wants to know what leftists think, he should listen to leftists, not the people trying to manipulate him.

I also have gay friends. When some of them were coming over for a get-together I said, “if that’s going to be a problem, stay in your fucking room.”

I kept pointing out how corporations are fucking us over and asking why the media he was watching never talked about that.

I got him spending more time outside and just generally being away from technology for a few hours every day.

I’ve also been helping him learn to live with a disability. Having to help navigate government supports for him is a good thing to reference when conservative views on health care come up.

He’s not a card-carrying leftist yet, but he doesn’t get mad about gay people existing any more, so that’s a win. He now acknowledges that it’s the corporations fucking us with the help of both parties. It’s been almost 3 years now and he’s stubborn, but I keep at it.

I think the short version is: get them to realize they’re being manipulated and get them to start questioning the conservative narrative, but make sure they know you care about them at the same time.

Editing to add: using their language helps a lot too.

Don’t say: “Trans rights are human rights” Say: “Those are your countrymen fighting for the freedom to live their lives as they see fit, just like you.”