He is a know-it-all ass. He's a self-important dickhead. But I appreciate his role in getting young black kids seeing a role model that they can relate to. That's far more important than his ego.
Ranch isn't terrible on a salad, but that's where it should stay. Beyond that? Blegh. Some people even use the ranch seasoning as seasoning for other things, like fried chicken.
Sob stories. Seriously, they eat that shit up. Even if it's fake, but sounds plausible. If you make it personal to you, especially if it involves a white person getting "accidentally" fucked over by bad policy. I've had pretty good luck getting softer responses from Rs by making up personal stories that they connect with. Even if you only get them to question one policy, you put a crack in their foundational beliefs. I avoided this for a long time for ethical reasons, but we're past that now. I'm not above being deceitful anymore to get a point across. Most of them aren't necessarily evil, they're just convinced of evil policy by evil people. If I got my right wing mother to admit that Israel is committing genocide, there is hope.
The biggest thing here, is they think they can separate themselves from consequences of their choices. If they know someone they like that felt those consequences, instead of a nameless, faceless stranger, it makes it harder. Put your name and face out there as being effected by it, and the Rs in your circle will start to question their policy.
That's worked for me on my mother and a few older Rs at work. Sure, maybe I'm being manipulative, but honestly, I don't fucking care anymore.
Edit: what I mean by this is that while his hackers were doing their work, you don't think they managed to get those files while having basically unlimited access?
Oh it's absolutely gorgeous. But the people are so remote, and undereducated and just mostly unaffected by what happens in the lower 48. I'll stop short of calling them stupid because that's just life in extremely remote places. It's a different world.
Oh I'm well aware, that's why I implied that he is also the enemy. But the enemy of your enemy, is just that, your enemies enemy. IF he can do damage, I'll sit back and watch.
He is a know-it-all ass. He's a self-important dickhead. But I appreciate his role in getting young black kids seeing a role model that they can relate to. That's far more important than his ego.