As in, not known to you IRL.

I’ve occasionally brought it up before, but a while back in my reddit days I was in a thread where a “professional deprogrammer” had popped in and was talking about how to “deprogram” conservatives and get them to shift left in their views. It centered around restoring their sense of community and belonging with more balanced viewpoint folks IRL and away from their online echo chambers.

I asked them if they had any way to convert someone you encounter wholly online and they said that it was basically impossible, IRL you have a decent chance, but not online.

I’ve been thinking about that quite a bit, so now I’m curious if anybody here has actually gotten an online conservative to come to the dark side light side?

  • Wilco@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    No. They will just shift their personality on you, usually saying “well I really hate all politicians, but I just think Trump is funny” or something dumb like that. MAGAts do not want facts. Living in crazy conspiracy world is their hobby. They can post something like “Hillary is a vampire” and all the cons in their echo chamber upvote it.