The amount of times I've been talking to some friends and I'll make a prediction or make an observation on what's going to happen in a political situation (or what to focus on), get disagreed with and called a tankie or pessimist or whatever, and then I'm correct 3 months later is driving me mad. Of course, they then start saying they need to protest against that or whatever. You would think at some point if someone is consistantly correct about stuff (that isn't hard to be correct on, I'm just like, the only theory reader and person who knows any real history in a group of americans) that you'd start to give them a little credit and maybe value their opinion a little higher, maybe even try to understand what's different between you and them????
Example: telling them ukraine has a nazi problem???? Why was this difficult.
It might just be me or something (likely) but it seems like it's a trend across the states.
The vast majority of people can not handle people that see through the bs be and call it like how it is.
It's too real for them. Many people are afraid of being negative cuz it's toxic to the point that they are hopelessly positive to the point of toxicity.
Why they don't listen? Cuz they just don't want to see that some one with your outlook is right. I deal with it all the time. It's pretty isolating at times but what ever. You'll eventually get people that understand you and want to talk to you.
It's wild cause I'm one of the biggest optimists out of all of the people I know. I'm just not going to delude myself into thinking this shit is better than it is. Do I believe that through hard work and time things can improve? Yes! Do I think that's going to happen in x situation? No that's stupid.
i wonder if they have some sense of how things actually are and are instinctively keeping their heads in the sand.