I mostly give them a "huh, ok" these days and that seems to set them off the most, especially if they expect you to be one of theirs because you're white. Only tactic you have is to make them feel embarrassed or annoying. I'm surrounded by full on Qanon conspiracy goofs all day and I've gotten decent at getting them to shut the fuck up. One will always try to annoyingly correct me if I say anything about outer space or airplanes or whatever, since he's one of those flat earth guys. He's literally said "um, actually? Space isn't real" before. I just ignore him and continue talking about whatever I was saying, or maybe I give him a "oh, that's cool. yeah."
"Dude it's a Disney cartoon who gives a fuck" also works if they're on one of those types of rants
I just try to be normal and somehow that seems to work to at least make them stop. I have no idea at all how they'd be corrected beyond that outside of mandatory re-education. America deserves a century of humiliation.
Every day I feel lucky to be surrounded by people who laughed at the queens death and tolerate me ranting about communism and the historical victories of communism.
Even the libertarian is basically on my side and for the most part didn't give it any chud vibes beyond "taxes bad" lol
I have only ever met open leftists at events or meetings dedicated to socialist stuff, like protests or volunteer work or whatever. I briefly met a person who said she knew who Marx was and read some of his books, but it turned out she actually meant Kant and confused their names. Met another guy once who said he loved the Soviet Union, but he was also very confused and turns out he meant Israel. I meet a lot of extremely confused people.
Otherwise 99% of people I interact with either do not care or are complete fascist style reactionaries (about a 50/50 split). I think at this point if I met an open commie type in the wild I'd fall to their feet in shock. I'm losing my mind btw
It's weird, I'm solidly in "Trump Country" too. All the owners and shit head suburbanites out here are total zombies, but obviously all the service workers and a decent portion of the sub $100k crowd is really progressive.
Probably because none of them have ever owned a home and have no hopes of owning a home and are just happy when rent is below 50% of their wages.
I'm starting a commie reading group and dispersing Parenti and Lenin amongst the local proles though and telling them to pass the books on when they finish and come to me for more lol
I also ask people weird and personal questions after just meeting them so I've always thought it's more likely that I'm the bizarre one and most people simply don't have an opportunity to say the weirdest things they believe. I'm from Texas if that explains anything
Yes lol, he doesn't know who rothbard is. He doesn't know who Rand is. He's just a 40 year old vet who hates the government because he hates the military. His way of manifesting that is "libertarian" which to him means "fuck the government"
I mostly give them a "huh, ok" these days and that seems to set them off the most, especially if they expect you to be one of theirs because you're white. Only tactic you have is to make them feel embarrassed or annoying. I'm surrounded by full on Qanon conspiracy goofs all day and I've gotten decent at getting them to shut the fuck up. One will always try to annoyingly correct me if I say anything about outer space or airplanes or whatever, since he's one of those flat earth guys. He's literally said "um, actually? Space isn't real" before. I just ignore him and continue talking about whatever I was saying, or maybe I give him a "oh, that's cool. yeah."
"Dude it's a Disney cartoon who gives a fuck" also works if they're on one of those types of rants
I just try to be normal and somehow that seems to work to at least make them stop. I have no idea at all how they'd be corrected beyond that outside of mandatory re-education. America deserves a century of humiliation.
Every day I feel lucky to be surrounded by people who laughed at the queens death and tolerate me ranting about communism and the historical victories of communism.
Even the libertarian is basically on my side and for the most part didn't give it any chud vibes beyond "taxes bad" lol
Got 2 open commies and one Cumtown dork
I have only ever met open leftists at events or meetings dedicated to socialist stuff, like protests or volunteer work or whatever. I briefly met a person who said she knew who Marx was and read some of his books, but it turned out she actually meant Kant and confused their names. Met another guy once who said he loved the Soviet Union, but he was also very confused and turns out he meant Israel. I meet a lot of extremely confused people.
Otherwise 99% of people I interact with either do not care or are complete fascist style reactionaries (about a 50/50 split). I think at this point if I met an open commie type in the wild I'd fall to their feet in shock. I'm losing my mind btw
It's weird, I'm solidly in "Trump Country" too. All the owners and shit head suburbanites out here are total zombies, but obviously all the service workers and a decent portion of the sub $100k crowd is really progressive.
Probably because none of them have ever owned a home and have no hopes of owning a home and are just happy when rent is below 50% of their wages.
I'm starting a commie reading group and dispersing Parenti and Lenin amongst the local proles though and telling them to pass the books on when they finish and come to me for more lol
You need to live in a university town.
I don't know where you meet these people and i can't ask bc i don't want you to doxx yourself, but jfc you do run into some bizarre mfers.
I also ask people weird and personal questions after just meeting them so I've always thought it's more likely that I'm the bizarre one and most people simply don't have an opportunity to say the weirdest things they believe. I'm from Texas if that explains anything
I guess that explains everything.
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Yes lol, he doesn't know who rothbard is. He doesn't know who Rand is. He's just a 40 year old vet who hates the government because he hates the military. His way of manifesting that is "libertarian" which to him means "fuck the government"
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Baby steps
certified libertarian socialist moment
"Cool story, bruh" is one of the post powerful rhetorical weapons in your arsenal.
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"we are literally controlling what you eat, and it's vegan not bugs ya fucken dumbasses"
now i want to invent vegan crickets so i can force the chuds to eat soy that is a surprisingly realistic immitation of bugs
Lab-created meat but it's crickets instead of traditional livestock