prole [any, any]

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  • I feel like targeting politically active people who already have some allegiance is a waste of time when there are millions of people without a political allegiance who are much easier to sway (most of the time)

    Unless you can easily infiltrate leadership, there’s not much you can do. Libs generally aren’t going to be swayed if their leadership isn’t on board.

    Imo the best adult targets for radicalization are people who haven’t quite identified their own politics, but are in a position to benefit tremendously from socialism or even just progressive ideas. Everyone else is a waste of time, you’ll often find them digging in deeper the more you try so it requires a lot of subtlety and time.

    The libs who can be convinced will often convince themselves over time anyway. Sometimes you can speed it up, but again that can sometimes backfire. People will often regress into their comfort zone instead of confronting the levels of cognitive dissonance that can come with radicalization. I think that’s probably why it’s easier to get people who don’t engage with politics/ideology much at all, but already think the US sucks. They don’t have to undo an existing idea so much as process a new one, which is always easier.







  • The article even talks about how they use terms like female-centered instead of matriarchal because the so-called scholars don’t wanna think about it

    Benjamin Arbuckle, an archaeologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who was not involved in the study, wrote in a perspective in Science that “if the sex patterns were reversed, there would likely be little hesitation in concluding that patriarchal power structures were at play.”

    “This is reflective of the difficulty that many scholars have in imagining a world characterized by substantial female power despite abundant archaeological, historic, and ethnographic evidence that matriarchal fields of power were and are widespread,” Arbuckle said.