I feel you. With 90% of people it's a game of "how long until they say something racist or chauvinist" and they speedrun that shit
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I have 2 coworkers that are even remotely cool, and best case, both of them are libs
Most likely, one is a lib and the other is some weird libertarian type. We won't talk about my family lmao
It's just depressing
you hate living in Amerikkka? Have you considered moving to a place Amerikkka bombs? Checkmate, lefty!
Protip: Want to leave the US for a better country? Strap yourself to a JDAM to save on airfare and paperwork.
And get decision paralysis?
Sort of related, but anyone else notice that people want things to be normal so badly that you can say all kinds of crazy shit and people will just ignore it? Like you can make jokes at work or with family about Stalin and sending people to gulags and they'll just be like, "Oh that pooh is so zany."
I feel like IRL this is actually way more common than libs getting all indignant or argumentative.
Though it works the other way in that usually people can say pretty awful shit and it gets ignored, too.
I also see how early many people put up their christmas lights this year (not stores, but houses) and I can't not read a desperation for normality in it. Like i started seeing some before thanksgiving.
tbf my folks used to put out lights when it was still above freezing and wait until December to turn them on
The Hallmark Channel is currently the third-highest rated in the USA. People fucking love Christmas.
Ngl im usually one of those people I want Christmas lights up when I’m eating Thanksgiving dinner
I've definitely played the game before where I ratchet up the insanity of my statements from 'pretty normal' to "your boss will be first on the wall" and shit and people will just try to ignore it rather than stop to ask. Or maybe they do think I'm insane and just aren't acknowledging it, lmao
The question of if coworkers agree with their unhinged rants or are just worried about causing a scene weighs heavy on the mind of the poster.
I will not stop
I'm in the US and had a convo today with a rando about how Castro was a cool guy and socialism is the way.
Overall the country sucks but it's not barren. There's just a lot of people who aren't organized and haven't done the reading.
For sure, a lot of people agree with socialists completely if you are very careful with your rhetoric
absolutely! and i mean VERY careful.
THE ENGLISH SPEAKING WORLD IS CURSED
I JUST EXPECT ANYONE OUTSIDE OF THIS PLACE TO BE INCREDIBLY RACIST/CHAUVINIST UNLESS PROVEN OTHERWISE
If anyone needs a cool commie to move in with, holler at your corgi
yeah :sadness:
at least we have this website. always appreciate your posts/comments, OP
Take solace in the fact that it's gotta fuckin die sometime, and when it does we'll be there to piss on its fetid corpse 👍
I keep expecting to hear more about cool anarcho-communes popping up, but I also feel like any compromise of opsec for something like that could be disastrous. So I just keep thinking about setting up my own small scale thing, which doesn't really seem like it would be very effective. I at least have a few folks I can talk pretty openly with now, but it's always weird tiptoeing around politics with new people and strangers.
What is the best source to learn about anarcho communes
Sounds rad
Wish I knew myself. I've heard of a few 'intentional' communes, but I've heard some mixed things about them. There's some online maps of some of them, but it's hard to gauge them politically. I've not heard of many that are explicitly leftist or anti-capitalist etc.
I'm not gonna ever be able to retire so I find myself more and more day dreaming about starting one but like with a few people with technology backgrounds and such so we can still have Internet connectivity. I don't know many people who can grow food or build houses, let alone where would be a good place to squat for a commune. Plus I wouldn't know how to go about dealing with pigs when they try and bust the place up. So instead I just wait for the empire to fall and hope I can find some good people that my family will be safe with lol.
It's also true that even a well functioning commune could fail the transition to different political realities in various ways. The process of revolution can be a stress test to all existing social relations due to changes in material conditions.
I’m going to be honest with you, having lived in both a developing country (where I grew up in Asia) and then the US for a few years, the US is infinitely better if you don’t want to deal with casual racism, casual sexism and casual homophobia in your everyday life.
Maybe not so much of a problem if you’re a white foreigner and don’t mingle with the locals, but if you grow up in the local culture you’d be surprised to see how normalized reactionary opinions are until you have lived in liberal Western countries.
What you really want is to move to a liberal American/European city. It’s infinitely better.
Maybe it's just my community but most people I deal with are pretty cool. Like yeah a ton if em are libs but whatcha gonna do, it goes with living under capitalism right now.
Yeah it sucks. Life sucks.