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I'm all for empathizing with where people are coming from and trying to engage with that. But in my experience, people caring about an issue as a political rall
by mindslight 3y ago
I'm all for empathizing with where people are coming from and trying to engage with that. But in my experience, people caring about an issue as a political rallying cry doesn't translate to them engaging with a topic to understand its specific details. Rather most people are just looking for someone to parrot back their party line so they can bond as being on the same team, and deviating from that script with any kind of nuanced point just gets you othered.
Also 'pushing back against electronic voting machines' isn't really the answer. First, in most places that ship has already sailed. Second, hand counted paper ballots are still quite open to tampering (just not scalable tampering). What we really need is cryptographic voting systems that allow the vote to be independently verified, which would necessarily be implemented with computers, but not in the way those "bad" electronic voting machines work - in other words a whole lot of nuance, especially for people currently getting suckered by snake oil salesmen with wifi drones and the like.