just play out loud this song I made a few months ago in your shop when a redhat comes along 
its unmasking trump by manipulating his own words
just for educational purposes according to the 17 US Code 117
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I feel for you. Here in Germany it is mirrored. If you donāt believe in the Greta Hype or Antifa Hype people stare at you like they want to put you into a concentration campā¦
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i think this is a myth. whats wrong about having an argument? just stand for your political beliefs. when others dont agree with them , thats ok, thats democracy. and there will always be people around that dont agree with you. and if they dont, you are not a victim, you just have an opposite opinion as they have, but thats life.
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Iām gonna print myself a t-shirt with a simple slogan.
āI donāt care what you think or why it makes you a martyr.ā
That should deal with both poles on the scale of bullshit talkers.
Now letās get back to the musicā¦
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Just change your name badge to Adolf and grow a short moustache. Then stare into the dudes soul.
No they donāt. Because there is no greta nor antifa hype. There are real climate change problems and there are real problems with stupid fascists and their recent terror attacks.
Kein mensch tut dir was.
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A common belief amongst extreme political groups is that they identify their perceived opponents as being too stupid, too brainwashed or too corrupt to see ārealityā or āmissionā as they do, believing themselves to be more intelligent, more informed and righteous bearers of the truth.
Hopefully that is a sufficiently diplomatic way of summing up the political mess in many countries right now, so as to offend nobody as theyāll assume Iām criticising their opponents and not themselves!
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Nothing you can do really. I always answer with questions that I know theyāll struggle with. But asked in a way that makes it look like Iām questioning myself.
Agreed. While I believe reelecting trump would be a democratic approval of climate collapse and neofeudalism, I recognize that a lot of his support has different echo chambers and media pundits than my own and for reasons
different than my own support him. I donāt agree with them but they have their reasons, some of them not all terrible. Part of all the issues we have today is that political discourse is in a terrible state.
To the OP: that sucks. I would say just be respectfully neutral and keep repeating that you would prefer not to talk about it.
Desperate times. People are desperate.
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It is an interesting lesson in how history is made.
In 50 years time when people look back on this part of history, one side or the other will have been the long term victor and shaped the narrative, the arguments of the other will be lost, minimised; even maligned.
The same must have been the case over many tracts of history that we think we understand today. Civilisation and its ups and downs are a lot more complicated when you are living through them rather than reading about them decades later in a book.
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Nothing you can do I supposeā¦
Become an expatriate maybe. Although we have the same type of idiots here, minus the haircut 
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Calling people for example communists and/or idiots doesnt help at all.
Calling 1%s who donāt give a damn about anything except their portfolios sociopaths is fine.
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Iām surrounded by racist rednecks in the Arizona Desert. I can hear my 70 year old hoarder neighbor outside spewing racist crap to whoever happens to come by.
If I donāt think they are open to change (e.g. wearing endless Trump gear proudly) then Iām polite but short.
Just say āI have too much going on in my life right now to pay attention to all thatā or just smile and say as little as possible. When they realize you arenāt adding to the conversation theyāll stop talking to you.
If itās just you and one customer tell them sorry, I need to unload some stock in the back before it gets busy.
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I believe itās good to come back to basics. What do we all want / need ?
A roof, some food, peace, love and education I guess. Everyone needs this, whatever the country. From here goes a path where weāre all equal on Earth.
Either the person in front of you can show a little compassion, and you can keep going.
Or they donāt and they are not worth your time unfortunately.
Itās sad to see there are so many ignorant people on Earth in 2020.
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On the original question:
Nodding and repeating āI hear youā while offering nothing of substance usually gets them to desist more quickly than any sort of engagement. I zone out while I do this; I might hear, but I donāt listen. I think āI hear youā is a good response, because most of the time, thatās what people want; whether I want to hear them or not, they want to be heard.
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I read that lots of pro Trump voters leave their state California because they think it is too liberal. Some expressed that they feel discriminated for being pro Trump ā¦ Scary times
If I would live in California I would probably say āyeah, so let them go go goā, but this also shows the deep segregation which is taking place in the US. Trump states, liberal statesā¦, feels for me like this could lead to some more serious confrontations if people donāt wake up and realize how ignorant and brainwashed they all becomeā¦, but I doubt that this will happen, unfortunately.
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The āwinnerā does not matter so much as the āsideā that controls the media and the history education.
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Itās painful sometimes. Other times itās funny. But most of the time itās just sad.
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Yes, yes it is.
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Great topic for a music forum!
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