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Finnbot 115 points 3 years ago

It’s a waste of time. These types of people are as thick as mince, you’re not gonna change their mind because they have zero interest or incentive to do so. It’s a fucking cult of morons.

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rayyyy 30 points 3 years ago

You are not wrong, but you stop short. These types are also very weak emotionally. As Adam Kinzinger said, MAGAs are too terrified to leave the tribe. They believe the lies because their tribe tells them to.

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DrugsMcChrist 4 points 3 years ago
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cedarmesa 82 points 3 years ago

💀

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Quazatron 21 points 3 years ago

This is the sentence that I needed to read today. Thank you

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LEDZeppelin 4 points 3 years ago

This.

Someone said to me a long time ago - if you choose to wrestle with a pig rolling in a pile of shit, you soon realize that while you get filthy the pig is actually enjoying it.

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Moobythegoldensock 70 points 3 years ago

It’s stupid because:

  • Women are not some single homogenous group. Every woman is a unique person, just like men are.
  • Everyone by default deserves to be treated with dignity and respect, including women.
  • Being an asshole doesn’t make you more likable.
  • Instead of trying to hack your way into a relationship, have you tried actually dating someone?
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Elferrerito 14 points 3 years ago

1000% this. You can break most of the red pill mentality if you can make the person understand that each woman is their own individual, and that the whole "us vs them" mentality will not get them very far.

I think you will also have a greater chance of changing their mentality if you manage to understand what drove them into the "red pill path" to begin with.

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1984 6 points 3 years ago

There are books about how to manipulate women. I read one of those and felt sick. No normal man can write stuff like that, publish it, and feel good about himself. Jesus.

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Moobythegoldensock 20 points 3 years ago

I personally manipulate my wife into loving me by being a responsible husband and loving father.

Am I doing it right?

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TopRamenBinLaden 16 points 3 years ago

Based and dadpilled.

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1984 2 points 3 years ago

Yes that kind of manipulation is quite alright. :)

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ElleChaise 11 points 3 years ago

Normal men don't read it either. We're potentially raising more broken young men than we've seen in the last hundred years. And when the aftershocks arrive, people will act surprised like they always do.

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1984 5 points 3 years ago

It's by design. I know it sounds a bit lame, but it's obvious the west is not spending money on creating healthy kids and adults.

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PoliticalAgitator 4 points 3 years ago

Women are not some single homogenous group. Every woman is a unique person, just like men are.

Actually I think you'll find that all women everywhere can be extrapolated from 5 shit takes on Twitter, one of which was a joke and one of which was a far-right LARPer /s

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jet 49 points 3 years ago

If you care about the people you're talking to, belittling their entire viewpoint dismissively without countering their arguments. Is not going to win them over. In fact it might hurt their relationship with you.

If you have the time and inclination, take the argument they have that you have an issue with, and break it down to its fundamental points. It's a good exercise for both of you. Work through what things mean at a fundamental level to both of you and find what the core disagreement is. Is it philosophical, is it structural, is it traditional, there's many facets of an argument that people can latch on to. Having them explain why to you and then why the why etc can be helpful for both you and them to come to if not a common understanding but a mutual respect for positions.

But this is time intensive, and if we're just talking about randos on the internet it's not worth your time.

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Presi300 18 points 3 years ago
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jet 16 points 3 years ago

Okay you've known them for years. That's a large time investment.

So when they do something you disagree with at a fundamental level, ask them to explain oh why do you support that? And then when they give you a high level answer ask them why that is there answer. Like peel the onion to get to their core issues. And if people's core issues that's just what other people say and they haven't thought about it, you're going to help them think about it for themselves. Which may not convert them but will at least get them to apply some intellectual rigor to their thinking

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blackbelt352 7 points 3 years ago

Ahh the Socratic Method. One of the most effective means of teaching is playung just dumb enough, asking the right questions and getting them to provide some evidence. Make them convince you of their point of view and just keep pointing out the flaws once they start making contradictions.

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adeoxymus 3 points 3 years ago

What do you tell them right now? Do you ague or tell them they’re idiots?

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Presi300 2 points 3 years ago
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FlyingSquid 4 points 3 years ago

That will achieve nothing but getting them to dislike you. That is an option, but I think two better ones are to either accept that you're not going to change their minds because they're too far down that rabbit hole and either just cope or cut off contact or spend a lot of time and effort constructing rational counter-arguments. I recommend the former.

I have some very crazy friends. That's okay because they're crazy in ways that don't offend me. If they offend me with their crazy, I'm not going to waste my time with them anymore. It's not worth the effort to try to change them and it isn't really my job.

Edit: as a total off-topic thing regarding red pill/blue pill. In the Matrix universe: What happens if you take both pills?

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PineapplePartisan 11 points 3 years ago

This also presumes that aspects of the root cause are changeable. I grew up with a guy who became an incel in the pure sense, not political sense.

The poor guy was hit with the ugly stick very badly, and then had an accident that left him partially disabled.

When puberty hit and everyone became horny assholes, he had a double whammy of being a horny asshole too, but getting ignored (at best) or out-right derision from the teen girls he expressed interest in. He was also self-aware enough to both know that he was a hypocrite because he only wanted to date an attractive woman, and that he understood that goes both ways (societally and biologically) so he went into a cycle of vocal self-loathing.

You can guess the rest. Those behaviors compounded and altered his personality to the point he was no longer the happy go lucky ugly ass dude and was now the guy who was just as ugly on the inside as the outside and no one wanted to be around that negativity.

I have no idea what happened to him after college as I never went back to my HS town after my parents moved away from it. I would like to think he is doing better with age and therapy, but I doubt it.

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jet 4 points 3 years ago

I'm not saying you're going to convince everyone. But clearly you understand this person's motivations. You can't bring them to your perspective, but you can socialize a healthier perspective to them. You don't have to convince everybody to be you. And I'm really happy that you're so conscientious and sympathetic. Probably something that person needed to be less of an asshole than they could have possibly been.

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klemptor 7 points 3 years ago

That's so sad - sometimes life can be so horribly unfair!

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ShittyBeatlesFCPres 30 points 3 years ago

One of the Wachowskis mocking it.

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can 2 points 3 years ago

That's great but not going to convince anyone who's already in too deep.

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some_guy 3 points 3 years ago

But it's the right amount of energy to spend on someone who's in too deep. Zero.

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ExecutiveStapler 29 points 3 years ago

The first step to changing someone's mind is acknowledging that you probably won't be able to. The other commenters are right, the red pill is stupid, it's annoying to argue with them, and you'll probably fail the delicate act of ideological conversion. Still want to give it a shot? Great!

Depending on how deep down the rabbit hole they are, the answer is it could either be impossible or it's a long term dedicated effort. First you should learn a bit about cult deprogramming techniques, as while the red pill isn't really a cult it is an echo chamber ie. a mostly comprehensive view of the world that has built in answers that insulate from external dissent. The red pill tends to provide community, some degree of lifestyle improvement, and a feeling of secret insights into society / the world, and it's very rare an individual will give those things up for the sake of something as abstract as logical consistency.

You need to slowly provide alternatives to whatever positives the red pill provides, which while annoying is possible because the red pill sucks. The online sense of community is tenuous at best, so be their friend and connect them to other friends that'll entirely replace that aspect. Additionally, the lifestyle improvement aspect is rather generic and can come from anywhere. Ask them what specific red pill people they follow and provide a gym / motivation YouTuber that better provides whatever motivation the red pill gives.

The final element is the feeling of insight into the world that the red pill gives. This one is ironically the least important to changing someone's mind and the most difficult, as in order to successfully provide alternatives you likely need to understand the red pill ideology better than they do. Nothing a red pill person says should stump you, you should have heard it beforehand and researched it and thought of better counter arguments. If they mention hypergamy, you should have annecdotal, theoretical, and statistical answers ready to go. You should know their ideology well so you can make annoying jokes about how ridiculous it is when applied to real life.

If you do these things, over enough time and done diplomatically enough so they don't leave you for a friend that doesn't annoy them, you can probably depeogram a red pill person.

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some_guy 14 points 3 years ago

I've heard it said (by a sociologist) that unwinding conspiratorial thinking requires approaching someone with compassion. Rather than tell them that they are wrong, ask them to explain why they think a particular thing.

Honestly, I don't have the patience or compassion to try to do this. I gave up trying to talk my mother out of her Fox News beliefs and instituted a "no politics" rule in our relationship in order to save it. Best move that was available for me.

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ExecutiveStapler 1 point 3 years ago

Yeah it's 90% compassion and 10% argumentation. Seeing things from their perspective, seeing the aspects they like and not immediately placing those aspects into the good and bad buckets, but instead truly appreciating how those aspects work for them. Of course, then you need to figure out how to advance your position over theirs, but that exhaustingly starts in compassion.

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NotYourSocialWorker 1 point 3 years ago

Asking questions and not sounding like it's a gotcha moment seems to be effective in many fields. Heard it being effective regarding smoking as well.

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SendMePhotos 8 points 3 years ago

Oh fuck. That's like at least a level 8 difficulty out of 10.

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ExecutiveStapler 4 points 3 years ago

Yeah it's incredibly difficult, that's why the majority of people never change their ideology past their early 20s when they first flirt with several. Add in the fact that you'll likely be socially ostracized from your old community if you ever do change your mind and the evolutionary pressure to be accepted over being logical, and it's quite frankly impressive anyone ever does.

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aesthelete 2 points 3 years ago

Thing I don't get is where people are finding this sense of community. I understand that it's rough to feel like you belong in America, but are red pill Internet communities really enough for some people to give them a sense of belonging? Every Internet "community" I've ever been a part of just feels like a bunch of strangers arguing about things and trying to pile into some ranking order.

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GhostFence 1 point 3 years ago

I know this was posted eons ago but this needs to be said. The most HONEST way to deal with Red Pill rhetoric is to verbally Aikido them.

First, admit the truth - SOME women are exactly like the nightmares they conjure up. I mean, Miriam Nakamoto DID dump her boyfriend specifically BECAUSE he failed to look masculine enough while he was losing a MMA match. There are women like that in the world. Evidence you bring up isn't going to negate that, and it is fear of these women that DRIVES Red Pill. When you say that's not a thing, you're giving them false information. You're gaslighting at that point, and they're going to see that and retreat back to their extremist ideology.

So the SECOND part is, go with what you know and we all know: women ain't all like that. But there's also the missing link here: Red Pill people are that way because they failed to properly pick the women they date, so they just keep running into these bad women. The problem you must address is that they're all about dating the best looking women rather than the nicest women, and they are the CLASSIC example of men who fall for "crazy hot" women. Sound familiar? Yeah because it's the counterpart for they say women fall for Chads/jerks. So the answer to the real problems that Red Pill brings up is not their sociopathic Dark Triad tactics, it's properly vetting your partners - looking for moral character and actual compatibility rather than just the best looking women. They need to be specifically told that if a man can't be attracted to a woman who's not 18-19 years old, big breasts and hourglass figure (the female counterpart to 6 feet, 6 figures and 6 inches) then that man needs to rethink his life rather than turn to the Redpill.

This is the whole answer that they need.

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Transcendant 28 points 3 years ago

Look into 'Street Epistemology': https://streetepistemology.com/

It's not an easy thing to employ in the moment. A lot of 'red pill' types actually try to employ this method, unfortunately for them they do it very clumsily and are often visibly just JAQing off ("Just asking questions, bro"). But, when this technique is used to genuinely understand and break down someone's position (instead of a cult conversion / 'argument winner' tool), it's quite effective.

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Monkeyhog 28 points 3 years ago

Life is too short to argue with idiots. Ignore them let them wallow in their stupidity.

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FredericChopin_ 6 points 3 years ago
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stormtrooper 1 point 3 years ago

I’ve always had a bone to pick with that expression.

What experience? If it’s an old fart with outdated views, yeah maybe they can keep complaining about shit that doesn’t matter anymore, but dumbshit people my age or younger? What experience?

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FredericChopin_ 7 points 3 years ago
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stormtrooper 2 points 3 years ago

Thanks that makes sense

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amio 5 points 3 years ago

It works better in context, the quote is "don't argue with idiots: they'll drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience." I've always taken that as "experience at being an idiot". The "yeah, well, muh wisdom/experience" copout is unrelated.

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stormtrooper 2 points 3 years ago

Thanks that makes much more sense

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SpezBroughtMeHere 1 point 3 years ago

You might want to learn what the quote means before you develop an opinion on it.

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stormtrooper 1 point 3 years ago

Other comments have helped.

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wilberfan 1 point 3 years ago

Unfortunately, they're allowed to vote.

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DrugsMcChrist 22 points 3 years ago

You don't. See the first (introduction) video from the Alt-Right Playbook. Basically, there is a real risk that even if you "win" the argument, the red-pill derp just gets angry and takes it out on a convenient female target. The energy is better spent finding ways to counter red-pill ideology that don't involve engaging directly with these people.

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mind -1 points 3 years ago
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some_guy 0 points 3 years ago

My mother threw out a statistic about police killings that she got from Fox that I was able to counter in five seconds with a Google search and a WaPo article. She said she still believed Fox. Our relationship had already been strained due to politics (summer 2020) and I nearly cut the relationship off because I was so appalled by her politics. The solution was to stop discussing those topics. It's not as straight forward bad to reject discussion as you are suggesting.

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mind 0 points 3 years ago
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Brainsploosh 16 points 3 years ago
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gamermanh 3 points 3 years ago

Works quite well in person unless the person is literally beyond logic and saving

It's really hard for people to completely deny close friends with hard evidence in person (usually saying your line results in them asking why and then you can search stuff up on your phone or something), much easier with the distance of social media

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sock 16 points 3 years ago

you just described all the conversations i had with my ex. blah blah blah "you know i think desantis has some good points"

"NO HE DOES NOT DONT SAY THAT" cue argument about what hes actually doing and that one policy that only kind of makes sense doesnt make desantis anything anyone should be listening to

no its about the kids not trans erasure. MAYBE FOR YOU ITS ABOUT KIDS OR SMTH but for the majority of the conservatives its about trans erasure WHICH IS NOT A GOOD THING.

don't even get me started on fucking covid vaccines. "this study says.. myocarditis, autism, mrna blah blah" "which study" "they exist theres data" "ok i believe you show me these studies" "well i cant find the studies now i feel stupid gets upset but doesnt think shes wrong still"

once she brought me a "study" and the results said "THE DATA IS INCONCLUSIVE AND FURTHERS PROVES THE BENEFITS OUTWEIGHT THE NEGATIVES" and im like i dont know what to tell you this wasnt the study you think it is.

i don't get how people can just be wrong and proven wrong over and over but still think theyre right. her parents shove right wing propaganda down her throat sadly.

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aesthelete 2 points 3 years ago

I think it's as simple as:

Reasoning will never make a Man correct an ill Opinion, which by Reasoning he never acquired -Jonathan Swift

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miked 0 points 3 years ago

Just A Friend - Biz Markie

...
The way that I met her was on tour at a concert
She had long hair and a short miniskirt
I just got onstage drippin', pourin' with sweat
I was walkin' through the crowd and gues who I met
I whispered in her ear, "Come to the picture booth
So I can ask you some questions to see if you are a hundred proof"
I asked her her name, she said blah-blah-blah
I took a couple of flicks and she was enthused
I said, "How do you like the show?"
She said, "I was very amused"
...

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bleistift2 14 points 3 years ago

I’m afraid to ask… what is “red pill mentality”?

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Hyperreality 25 points 3 years ago

In The Matrix (1999) the protaganist takes a red pill, discovers he's been living in a simulation, and what the world is the really like.

'Red pill' has been co-opted by various far right movements to mean someone finally sees the 'truth'.

Most commonly it's used by incels and misogynists. Think Andrew Tate and various pickup artist influencers.

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starlinguk -9 points 3 years ago

Good grief, that's a bit of a stretch.

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Hyperreality 18 points 3 years ago

Oh, but it gets better than that.

The Wachowskis, who directed the Matrix and transitioned, have admitted that the Matrix is actually in large part a trans allegory. Apparently one the pills used to transition was literally a red pill.

Which is why, if I remember correctly, when at one point Ivanka Trump and Elon Musk tweeted about taking the red pill, one of the Wachowskis replied that they should go fuck themselves.

Ah, what a time to be alive.

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maegul 4 points 3 years ago

That moment was probably peak social media. Along with Lewinski winning the internet with that word play joke.

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bleistift2 2 points 3 years ago

The Wachowskis, who directed the Matrix and transitioned, have admitted that the Matrix is actually in large part a trans allegory.

Source?

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Presi300 15 points 3 years ago
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Hyperreality 5 points 3 years ago

Also, the Matrix is a trans allegory/metaphor, and the red pill is based on one of the hormone pills the Wachowskis likely used to transition.

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BlueSialia 1 point 3 years ago

Somebody has recommended you street epistemology already. An important part of it is to talk using the same concepts.

I say this because my understanding of the red pill comes from the documentary The Red Pill. It roughly means that you are aware of the issues men face in modern societies and care about them. That caring about men's rights does not mean that you hate women.

And because of that I initially thought that trying to convince someone that "red pill mentality is stupid" was the stupid thing.

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xylogx 1 point 3 years ago

That is where they start but it ends up becoming the He-Man Woman Haters club.

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GBU_28 -1 points 3 years ago

Your made it to 2023 without hearing about this shit?

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bleistift2 1 point 3 years ago

I’m veeery late on the technology and culture wave. I only discovered reddit last year and use a smart phone when I absolutely have to.

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Zeth0s 12 points 3 years ago

Ask them to define concepts instead of using catchwords

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fubo 11 points 3 years ago

You can't reason someone out of a position that they didn't reason themselves into.

Fascists and other Frauds tell the Little Man that he is a loser; that he is being ripped off by the Bad People; that his whole class or gender or race are being taken advantage of by their inferiors. They play to the Little Man's anxieties, making him feel littler and more stepped-upon.

This is all a lead-in to telling the Little Man to sign up for the Big Lie.

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nieceandtows 10 points 3 years ago

Ask them if they think their mom is also that way. If they say yes, then you know you can't change their mind, and drop the subject.

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elscallr 10 points 3 years ago

You don't. That person is lost.

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thesohoriots 8 points 3 years ago

There’s a quote variously attributed to a bunch of people that’s along the lines of “you can’t reason someone out of a corner they didn’t reason themselves into” — not to say your friends didn’t necessarily come by a faulty logic to get themselves there; rather that there’s some innate values that were interpellated by the rhetoric of the so-called redpill, and you’re unfortunately seeing an aspect of them that was always there but perhaps in different forms. It’s not worth your time to argue with them, and sadly, may not be worth your time to be in that environment either.

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Potatos_are_not_friends 6 points 3 years ago

I worked with a guy who spent half of his time saying some red pill shit. I mostly shrugged and ignored him and focused on my work.

When he exploded like a powder keg and was fired, he tried to reach out to get a reference. I ignored him then too. It went from "Hey you're a great friend can you do this" to "You F*** MF all things I did for you?!"

Ghosting these people, fully disengage, cut them out the moment you can is honestly the only way.

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AndreyAsimow 6 points 3 years ago

IMHO, it's not only stupid but completely unnecessary as well.

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Hyperreality 5 points 3 years ago

You can argue with a pigeon, you can tell it you are right and it is wrong, you can use logical arguments and sound evidence, but you won't change its mind and at the end of the day you'll still end up with shit in your hair.

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BastingChemina 1 point 3 years ago

Debating creationists on the topic of evolution is rather like trying to play chess with a pigeon -- it knocks the pieces over, craps on the board, and flies back to its flock to claim victory.

Scott D. Weitzenhoffer on Amazon review

https://www.amazon.com/review/R2367M3BJ05M82

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afraid_of_zombies 4 points 3 years ago

Ask them what they hope to win. You can sit there and make endless arguments to defend your view that half of humanity is awful. Until eventually everyone just gives up arguing. Now what? There is a next day. The victim mentality is not even self-serving. At most it lets you know how badly your life went, but far more often it skews your view of the events and gives you nothing to work with moving forward except a desire to hurt others.

Tell them they won and ask them what they want to do next.

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Lifecoach5000 4 points 3 years ago

You have to pull the reverse red pill card, to red pilled them out of being red pilled. It takes a next level pillmaster to achieve this and I’m not sure it’s ever even been done on record.

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SkaveRat 3 points 3 years ago

I dunno. I know a guy who has some impressive pills

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brianshatchet 4 points 3 years ago

Even if you assumed a goal of reproductive success, it's idiotic to think there is a single best strategy that is unchanging. Humans evolved over tens of thousands of years, and they evolved to be adaptable. It's like trying to play a football game with the same play every time... People will catch on quickly.

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MossBear 3 points 3 years ago

In a world with Lao Tzu, people actually choose to believe this sort of thing. Remarkable how flimsy people are.

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intensely_human 1 point 3 years ago

If you find yourself stumped by someone’s point, you need to consider that point.

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Stinkywinks -1 points 3 years ago

I don't get it. The red pill from the matrix? I hear people use it as a truth pill, but how can that be an argument?

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Spliffman1 -2 points 3 years ago
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blackbelt352 2 points 3 years ago

Depends on the context, in the Matrix, its a metaphor for HRT pills which at the time was colored pink/red, which has been confirmed by the Wachowskis.

For the incel context, its "waking up" to female(tm) hypergamy and believing that every social institution and gender role is to serve the power of females(tm).

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Spliffman1 2 points 3 years ago
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blackbelt352 2 points 3 years ago

There's a lot of contexts that it "applies" to (read co-opted by right-wing reactionaries) that all tend to be "(insert historically poorly treated demographic) actually has all the power because wokeness/political correctness/affirmative action/globalists/socialists/communists/pedos in the nonexistent basement of a pizza parlor/feminism/the gays.

The Wachowskis really hate that it was co-opted and used to sow further divisions between people.

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Spliffman1 2 points 3 years ago
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RHOPKINS13 -22 points 3 years ago

Red pill mentality isn't stupid. If it was, you'd be able to come up with your own counterarguments rather than relying on asking random people on the web.

Now while the red pill mentality does make a lot of valid points, there are some extremists out there that take it too far and are simply woman-haters. And those people are stuck in their ways and not worth arguing with.

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Presi300 8 points 3 years ago
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brianshatchet 7 points 3 years ago

You don't need red pill to tell you to work on being confident and to be up front with your intentions with someone.

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Moobythegoldensock 3 points 3 years ago

Ok bro.

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ElleChaise 3 points 3 years ago

You don't need that to be a man. Masculinity is changing, and truly manly men accept and adapt to change; not cower from or reject it. You'll make it through, but if you want anyone to enjoy spending time with you, you gotta drop the act and find your true self, and realize that while improvements are always welcomed, that you are enough as you are.

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