Shit sucks and is bad for the brain
If you lost friends over being communist, they were probably not such good friends maybe? Anyone that has not been friendly after getting a peek at the contours of my political philosophy is probably like a dodged bullet in my experience. Just live your truth and maybe their minds will be illuminated via your praxis.
Anyway wish you the best! :meow-hug:
We had a complicated relationship anyways. They ghosted me for 4 years for valid reasons (transitioned) but…like you know who I am, you’ve always known. You seem to be good at ghosting me, so lets fucking get the ball rolling, I’ll start, ya know? One of those kinds of things.
It’s just happened to me a LOT in the past few weeks.
Ngl I just don’t talk about politics much around my lib friends aside from occasional comments about wanting to execute CEOs and lobbyists, which most people can get behind.
:leo-pointing-meme: fuck i want to be loved but i also never want to shut up
You are probably annoying to be around and abuzz kill. It’s probably not your communism but just the fact that you won’t stop talking about politics.
Join a political organization
In my experience it’s usually easier to bring people over to my point of view when for example I’m not constantly barraging them with why they should stop eating animals. If they have to take a defensive stance it makes them much less receptive, especially when you’re seen as that vegan/communist guy that has made it their identity. Like, stand your ground if people try and tear you down, but if it’s a constant you just end up alienating potential converts.
yea, you sound like someone i know. they will agree with someone but then go the fuck off about the other 10%, while still being just as angry at Republicans. that person is kind of a pill to be around sometimes, and they also never go on dates because people can sniff out the crazy real quick. it’s too fucking intense and exhausting. but my friend comes from a family environment like that, and never grew out of it.
I have a different class position from most of my old friends and sometimes it gets dicey. I’ve always been saying “I declare war on anyone who exploits and oppresses the community!” and now that my friends are more well-off they’re saying, “But Wertheimer, I exploit and oppress the community!” (Or however we should interpret “but my husband is an ethical landlord.”)
Unless I accidentally break the ceasefire by re-provoking the argument, I think my friend’s strategy at this point is imply without lying outright that the venture didn’t pan out.
Gotta hide your power level sometimes, comrade
Yeah you get to a kind of zen place about it
