I met some long time friends for pizza and beer tonight and i thought it was a fun night but right before we parted ways the two of them held an intervention with me. They said i was bringing up "socialist stuff" too much and it was making them depressed. They said to keep the conversation exclusively to things like games and anime. That if i didnt stop they didnt want to be friends anymore. Have you guys/gals/nonbinary pals experienced something like this before?

  • aqwxcvbnji [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    there is quite a difference between cutting relations with a distant reactionary cousin and versus your boomer parents for example.

    Sure, that's true. I assumed he was talking abouthis close relatives.

    I do think that the idea that we can easily cut people from our lives (like is propagated in r/relationship_advise, for example, but which is spread much broader), is a sign of something unhealthy. We're social animals, it's not normal behaviour for us to just cut people away like it's nothing. It's a sign of a form of stress and alienation of our natural behaviour, imposed on us by the harsh conditions of capitalist relations of production.