i was telling my friend about how rent is actually just unproductive wealth transfer and should be abolished and he told me that i sounded very neoliberal

my first reaction was to bite his head off but thankfully i was stunned and confused and unintelligibly spluttered at his ignorance for long enough that he managed to salvage the conversation with some other buzzwords

i’m a smooth operator

I don’t talk about politics. I just look at them like :waltuh: and say something like “yeah I wish I joined the military so I can kill kids” with a completely straight face and serious tone whenever they justify military intervention. They start doubling down and say “NO ITS NOT THE SAME” and I just play dumb and say “what are you talking about man I agree with you”

Something I’m doing is writing down the odd arguments that get stuck in my head in my art book, instead of escalating conversations or responding to chud stuff a year after its popped up. It’s not fighting the good fight or defending my conversational honour, and it results in having an art book that’s full of weird political rants…

It does help me stop ruminating over those “lost” conversations and makes me seem less weird as a result. Ymmv but writing stuff down tends to pull it out of my mind.