Honestly I don't meet the Yanks all that much regularly. I have a couple friends who I see semi frequently, and they're obviously ok. The Americans here at Hexbear are super cool. Since Covid lockdowns are breaking, I've been seeing more of them randomly. And in the conversations with them, I'm seeing a lot of mean-ish comments along the lines of "haha, you did something I'm not used to".

For example, in the past month, I've gotten called out for:

  • asking a guy at a literal commie beer event if he was a "comrade"
  • using the metric system
  • moving away from a boring conversation topic by asking a person what their job is, without a good convo transition
  • saying colonisation changed African countries
  • saying conservatives care more about aesthetics
  • joking that I pray to Lenin every morning (thank you lib for pointing out that this isn't what socialism is)

Honestly sarcasm is good and fine with friends. Like, if the love is clearly there, then ya tease me a bit. Dunno, but it feels like these people treat conversations as a competitive sport. Oh ya, these people are all massive libs as well.

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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    3 years ago

    I got called 'a fucking commie' by a fascist furry (I'm not even joking the fella proudly shows off pics of his time at the local convention. Red fox in German field grey) co-worker for using Celsius, and then he looked at my hat then saw the actual Soviet pin that's been lodged in my hat for years that nobody other than a ukrainian noticed and his eyes went wide and actually started screaming loudly "you're a fucking communist"

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      I also got called out for a pin on my bag. A guy at a mall stopped me, asked me why I had a sickle and hammer. I just kind of laughed and he said his dad died in the Korean War. He said I should get arrested and killed, then it was like the one video of the "why are you closed??" guy. He followed me around and tried rousing other people into a chant against me, shouting "communist! communist!" and then he'd get frustrated like "why doesn't anyone care???" I quickly left.