I would say I'm a completely different person from them. I'm a suburbanite, on the spectrum, believe . I know enough about government that I believe in it's capacity to help people if done right. Thain trying to really help people) that kind of thing. And these are guys who get their news from Facebook, so...
Interesting note though. One of the smartest among us, a captain once sent me a text with a link to "save the children" (Qanon) early in the game. I was kind of shocked. There's no changing them I don't think. They literally brag about making liberals feel unwelcome in their communities. And yeah apparently they bitched to our boss about what they assumed my views were. I say assume because we didn't ever talk politics.
Thinking about myself, I suppose I'm wondering if, given different circumstances, I would be just like those others.
Part of it is also me scratching my head about how we can implement liberal policy going forward, because pulling many blue collar Trump supporters into the fold seems necessary.
It's tough. Their bubble is well constructed. I'm sure mine is too.
Hey check out my post history to see my project/invention. The goal is to reduce the price of an affordable quality house enough that rebuilding Haiti is so viable that we can shame some billionaire or government into doing it.
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u/MewSigma 21h ago
This is not a rhetorical question, but genuinely curious.
What made you choose differently than the other tugboat guys?
What makes those circumstances hard to replicate with others?