“Well what’s the alternative?”
tell them the alternative
“Well, everyone thinks their political opinion is the correct one, what gives you the right to say yours is correct”
passionately appeal to their human empathy and tell them why socialism is indeed correct
“Wow stop being so aggressive, you’re trying to force your beliefs on me, this is why people don’t like talking about politics”
sooner or later politics will become relevant to your life, capitalism is killing our species, do you not want to maybe do something about that…?
“Well if we’re all doomed anyway what’s the point, might as well just be blissfully ignorant”
Fucking end my life. This is almost verbatim a conversation I just had. This is a person who came from a working family who has worked and rented their whole life. Convo started when I called landlords parasites and tried to explain why, lol. How are we meant to convince a critical mass of these people to leave their false consciousness behind before capitalism fucking kills us all :doomer:
let them eat global ruin
He’s on the landlords’ team
“Well, everyone thinks their political opinion is the correct one, what gives you the right to say yours is correct”
OP got it wrong in the 2nd step, sad! It’s because communism is a world-historic movement of people who understand their material relation to capital production and accumulation.
anyone who ever goes into points like “well how could things be different?” and “wow this is why politics is bad, just stop caring about stuff like me!” are just honestly worthless to talk to at all, these sorts of people are actively against thinking about anything and so conflict averse they do not find doing so to be valuable and they will respect you less for actually caring about anything because it makes them uncomfortable.
Convo started when I called landlords parasites
That was your big mistake. Common language on the left is alienating to “normies”. You gotta hide your power level. Start real slow and branch from there.
I recently didn’t hide my power level and suggested that what we’re taught about the DPRK probably isn’t 100% accurate, and oh boy, did I get major backlash. 😂 Like, I don’t know why it’s so controversial? No one I know has ever been there. How can you claim to know anything about a country you haven’t been to?
