Me [F] and techbroworker [M] having be employed at the same place for months. He's seemed pretty cool but also never revealed any clues about political affiliations or dogwhistles until today. We've had pretty good experiences in the few times we needed to work together on a ticket.

Obviously he's been smart enough to hide his power level for so long, but there is no telling if he's mildly conservative or a raging monarchist/burgundist.

I'm also hiding my power level, call it a six sided grizzly hiding in the shadows if you will. I think nobody knows how much of an extremist communist I am but my mermaid hair and septum piercing and covid19 wearing and openly breasted chestiscles might already be a modern day hammer and sickle to these people.

Also curious if there was a better generic selfpost community for this kind of post.

No specific question, but thoughts and advice plz.

        • Kuori [she/her]
          ·
          2 years ago

          uh excuse me, that was an informative :awooga:, not a horny one :very-smart:

            • UlyssesT [he/him]
              ·
              2 years ago

              We need to stop calling it "the horny stick." I think that's entrapment. :bunny-cop:

              • Weedian [he/him]
                ·
                2 years ago

                It’s the de-sexing stick, you wave it around most unsexily

            • Kuori [she/her]
              ·
              2 years ago

              well i certainly can't remain chaste if you're gonna threaten me with a good time like that :panting:

          • StellarTabi [none/use name]
            hexagon
            ·
            2 years ago

            There are two jokes in my original phrasing, the first is the overly verbose and nonsensical description of boobs. The second is the implication that a reactionary would assume I am far left merely because of my gender.

  • NotALeatherMuppet [none/use name]
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    edit-2
    2 years ago

    i feel like pre-trump, there was a sect of "alt" guys who basically knew the world we were promised was a lie, and they teetered in rebellion and anti-authority rhetoric. the social media fork in the road sent them down some other pipeline and they end up deranged chuds instead of englightened leftists

  • Rojo27 [he/him]
    ·
    2 years ago

    Weird that he'd reveal that... I guess he figured that since the times you worked together things went well then you'd see the world like he does. I get along with just about everyone, but I never really get into my politics unless someone asks me and even then I don't go all in. You just never know who it is you're talking to.

  • furryanarchy [comrade/them,they/them]
    ·
    2 years ago

    I post this kind of stuff in /c/chat. Seems to work well.

    What I find works well to calm people like that down on the reactionaryness is to dunk on them a little as soon as they start to say it out loud. Like before they start to push it more. You gotta make the feel a little dumb and embarrassed to even bring it up. But not like you are insulting them.

    Takes practice, idk if it's the easiest way but it's what I do.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        edit-2
        2 years ago

        I saw this work well when "the red pill" wasn't quite as well known as it is today. "Oh, I know that jargon. You're not one of those losers that believes in 'pickup artists,' are you?" :sicko-fem:

      • furryanarchy [comrade/them,they/them]
        ·
        2 years ago

        It's so dependent on you knowing the person well enough it hard to give a specific example. Some people, you could straight up call them a dumbass to their face and they won't take it as an insult because they know you as a friend. Others, it might be best to compare what they are talking about to someone you both know for being a dumb chud that you both dislike. Or you could predict what they are running up to saying and get ahead of it by talking about people who think that way being mad at the wrong people.

        Every person is going to react to what you say differently, you really gotta tailor your response to achieve the goal of making them feel a little dumb and embarrassed, but like you aren't trying to rub it in or make them feel bad. Definitely avoid trying to goad on a reaction or act like you are trying to bully them, that just causes more trouble.

  • deadbergeron [he/him,they/them]
    cake
    ·
    2 years ago

    at my old place where I worked in person, I'd usually act like I was completely apolitical and have the chuds try to convince me that trans people and green haired baristas were actually 'the elite.'

    • StellarTabi [none/use name]
      hexagon
      ·
      2 years ago

      He mentioned that he uses gab and rumble because YouTube and twitter are "biased".

      • GoebbelsDeezNuts [any]
        ·
        edit-2
        2 years ago

        oh my bad I guess I don't know what those are.

        Edit: I just looked it up 🤮

        • mao_zedonk [he/him]
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          edit-2
          2 years ago

          Holy cow I just looked them up too. Today I learned :dersh: has a show on Rumble called The Dershow :data-laughing:

          Honestly there is a ton of amazing stuff on these sites, real freak show stuff good heavens

        • panopticon [comrade/them]
          ·
          2 years ago

          I just looked at gab for the first time out of curiosity as well... Gross. It's just actual fuckin stormfront but with a reddit-style link aggregator front end. Internet toughguys bragging about burying their Biden-voting leftist neighbors, great replacement, antisemitism, etc

  • mao_zedonk [he/him]
    ·
    2 years ago

    Honestly if you live in the imperial core there are a lot of well-intentioned people who are so propagandized they fall into all sorts of holes trying to figure out the world, and that can often mean esoteric right politics.

    If you get along well that's much more to build on than most of us have when trying to convince the other side. I think it's much more strategically powerful to be good-natured, friendly and always correct than to cast away people who haven't figured it out yet. There are a lot of people on this site who had weird phases too.

    Build your relationship, be right all the time, and capitalize on the fact that he thinks you're cool. Maybe you can convince him, or maybe you just plant a seed that grows within him. Honestly the communists I used to work with have no idea that they brought me to their side.

    • StellarTabi [none/use name]
      hexagon
      ·
      2 years ago

      I hope not, I was personally more worried about things turning south randomly like stalking or SA or outing me politically and then doxxing my onlines.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
        ·
        2 years ago

        Sounds like it might be college age :obama-spike: style attempts to conquer/win the unruly SJW feeeemale. :kombucha-disgust:

    • StellarTabi [none/use name]
      hexagon
      ·
      2 years ago

      It might be from a video game, but imagine if fascist's had a sub-ideology that was the right wing equivalent to posadism.

      • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
        ·
        2 years ago

        Oh the dude plays hearts of iron 4: The New Order.

        Not just a fucking fash, but a turbo-fash a-la himmler bootlicker

      • RNAi [he/him]
        ·
        2 years ago

        Posadism minus the hope for better things?

        • DragonNest_Aidit [they/them,use name]
          ·
          edit-2
          2 years ago

          Yeah, in the game the idea around Burgundian system is to wipe out Earth in a nuclear apocalypse while a select group of people would hide in a bunker to rebuild the new(ked) world for themselves.

          • RNAi [he/him]
            ·
            2 years ago

            Ah, posadism minus the aliens and with nazis inside the bunkers

      • DragonNest_Aidit [they/them,use name]
        ·
        2 years ago

        Holy fucking shit I can't believe it, TNO is having effect on material reality. God fucking damn it. The brainrot is spreading.

        FUCK YOU PINKPANZER YOU VAUSHITE LIB

        • dinklesplein [any, he/him]
          ·
          2 years ago

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    • buh [any]
      ·
      2 years ago

      he's Ron Burgundy?

  • TankGirl [she/her]
    ·
    2 years ago

    How much can you steal from him before you get him fired

  • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
    ·
    2 years ago

    if he's not a fashlet now, give him 6 months.

    i have no idea how to be a vocal communist without being annoying, but i think in these situations claiming that space by being bold in your beliefs is the right move.

    • StellarTabi [none/use name]
      hexagon
      ·
      2 years ago

      I think he is hiding his power level until somebody, anybody, also shows a little bit of theirs. But it could be fashlet or worse. Only time will tell. I've overheard some convos by him and other recent hires. I suspect another coworker could be a closeted Bernard Enjoyer.

  • StuporTrooper [he/him]
    ·
    2 years ago

    Also curious if there was a better generic selfpost community for this kind of post.

    /c/chat technically, but channel themes don't matter. /c/chapotraphouse is the general comms and usually gets more traction than themed comms.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
    ·
    2 years ago

    I wonder if there is legitimate potential for a tech proletariat uprising against the "ideas guys." :thinking-about-it: