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Grab the nearest bug and eat it. Maintain eye contact the whole time

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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You need to live in a university town.

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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.

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:deeper-sadness:

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Met another guy once who said he loved the Soviet Union, but he was also very confused and turns out he meant Israel

:lenin-sure:

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“taxes bad”

You know who doesn’t pay taxes? Most communist societies! Checkmate Libertarians!

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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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“Cool story, bruh” is one of the post powerful rhetorical weapons in your arsenal.

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I have no idea at all how they’d be corrected beyond that outside of mandatory re-education.

“we are literally controlling what you eat, and it’s vegan not bugs ya fucken dumbasses”

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now i want to invent vegan crickets so i can force the chuds to eat soy that is a surprisingly realistic immitation of bugs

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Lab-created meat but it’s crickets instead of traditional livestock

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“I also won’t eat the bugs because :im-vegan:”

They’ll be stockpiling crickets by the end of the week.

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literally never heard anyone talk about that.

tbh i’m generally on the side of the not eating the bug crew though. being forced to eat something different than what youre used to that you think is gross while wealthy and powerful people keep getting to eat the old food is some bullshit.

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It’s not hypocrisy, it’s class rule.

Plus bug eating as protein is a bad idea because if the impetus is to produce more protein with fewer resource inputs then any of the much cheaper/less intensive options in diet for a small planet (>50 years ago!) are better.

Everyone eating the bugs only works if it’s collective punishment for transgressions against the earth and that’s stupid.

Or if it’s a way of enforcing class rule by creating additional lifestyle signifiers through literal enforced consumption and that’s not what we want.

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Using parental controls the severely limit your parent’s access to the internet and news media is extremely important for keeping them off the fascist pipeline. idk what else to do.

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