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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by dronebama@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

I fucking hate thanksgiving, I hate the history behind it, I hate how people act, I hate what it promotes, I’m am going to do something at my family’s thanksgiving this year and I need ideas people. I want to make everyone as uncomfortable as possible, like how uncomfortable I feel whenever some chud in my family decides to rant about the gays or the blacks, im fucking done tolerating this shitty holiday and pretending like family matters at all in any context by giving a giant FU to everyone there. My experience ain’t unique here, all of us amerikkkans have experienced actual fucking pain during thanksgiving.

Is there something leftists could collectively do online to show solidarity against this stupid holiday, what should I do to make everyone go home early without eating the food? I don’t plan on ever getting invited to one of these things again so let me hear your best ideas. My plan as it is now is to sabotage the cooking, turn off the oven, drop the turkey on the floor, maybe flip a table. Once the food is ruined I’ll probably yell some anti colonial slogan that’s along the lines of “none of you deserve to live” before making a quick exit and hopefully not getting arrested. I want to be as malicious as possible, I have very few threads left to my natal family and severing them seems a necessary step to becoming a better communist.

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[-] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 72 points 1 year ago

Going out of your way to be an asshole instead of just getting in with your life is definitely healthy and sane.

Just don’t participate. Please tell me this is a bit and I’m just an idiot.

Severing ties typically means stop calling them. Stop participating. This is none of that.

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

This account is less than a week old and has this in the modlog, so I'm leaning toward bit.

[-] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

I hope so. For their own sake. What a waste of energy.

[-] StellarTabi@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago

It’s fucking disgusting that revolution matters more to hexbear than posadism. Seriously where do these folks priority’s lie? Having arable land or functioning civilization? I’ll tell you what, if you’re first concern isn’t the nuclear eradication of all life on Earth, then you're hopeless.

[-] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Its fucking disgusting that someone would put actual effort into horseshit like that.

I can accomplish cutting my family off by blocking their numbers, not answering their emails, and getting on with my life.

[-] dronebama@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

One Posadism without the Trotskyist bits plz. Chairman Xi rain nukes down plz!

[-] dronebama@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

The greatest bits are the ones that blur the lines between satire and reality. Unironically going to ruin thanksgiving for my family though.

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

Sounds like something my-hero would say

[-] dronebama@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

You won’t like what I’m going to do for Christmas. I’m going to get naked, paint myself green, break into peoples houses, and steal all the presents. I’m going full grinch mode on capitalist society this year.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago
[-] jabrd@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago

You're doing it wrong and making yourself look like an asshole. Instead bring up hot button issues like you're completely unaware and then play god's perfect centrist so your extended family members look like rabid lunatics instead of you

[-] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

jesse-wtf What the fuck is 9/11?

[-] zephyreks@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

This is the most acceptable answer

[-] heartheartbreak@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago

Communism is when you yell that you're a communist and then shit your pants as loud as possible

[-] jabrd@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

That's why I'm the only true leftist here

[-] RonPaulyShore@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

Socialism is when I'm a smug, resentful little asshole who nobody likes and who actively pushes people against socialism.

[-] dronebama@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

I’m not going to change their minds so I may as wel make them suffer with me.

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[-] fysihcyst@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 year ago

Just chill out, eat some potatoes, and radicalize the kid's table.

[-] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

An actual good thing to do would be to just aggressively counter bigotry from your family members. Call out their racist and homophobic comments, call out their toxic liberalism. Don't just let that shit ride, do something about it.

Being an asshole and torching shit for no reason achieves nothing but actively undermining everything else you say and do.

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[-] MaxOS@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

Just don't go

[-] christian@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

My personal opinion is that making everyone as uncomfortable as possible should start with you shitting your pants today and just walking around with it fermenting until Thanksgiving rolls around. I know I'd be uncomfortable if you walked into my thanksgiving like that.

[-] dronebama@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

Praxis fecal poster

[-] Antiwork@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

I’m sorry, but this shit is hella funny. The idea of someone purposefully dropping the turkey on the floor while yelling at their family members about how awful they all are. Like come on that’s hilarious.

You want more ideas and too many people moralizing. I’ll give you some ideas

  • I’m sure there’s situations or family events that people avoid like the plague. Bring them up repeatedly. Preferably the same one to different groups of people. Really get em talking about it.
  • Do that thing where you say five people’s names before you get the right one, but do it everytime you talk to someone.
  • Laugh during the prayer before dinner. Say Inshallah loudly instead of Amen.
  • Bring a food that stinks up the whole house.
  • Find a way to play cricket on the TV and then hide the remote.
  • Ask people if they can “keep it down.” Then whisper when you talk.
  • One of the most important things you can do is get the younger people in your family on your side. So do things to make them laugh that rile up the older ones.
  • when they spew their awful takes don’t debate just constantly go psshhhhh. Ed Bassmaster style.
  • If you do end up dropping the Turkey. Don’t throw it on the ground. Really make a scene out of it. Trip over the turkey after you drop it. You want them feeling bad for you. Also bring tofu and say “Well at least we can all still have Tofurkey.”
  • You’ve learned one thing with these people. Arguing and shaming doesn’t work in a society that otherwise rewards their shitty behavior. So just derail conversations and have fun. No point in making yourself all riled up for real. If you want to do it for show, fine, but if you’re going to go have fun with it.
[-] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

when they spew their awful takes don’t debate just constantly go psshhhhh. Ed Bassmaster style.

This is quality trolling.

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[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

Thanks, dronebama

[-] thisismyrealname@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

have you considered simply not going?

[-] dronebama@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

And let them have their little klan meeting undisturbed? No.

[-] toomanyjoints69@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 year ago

I found a neat podcast that might have some inspirational ideas for you.

https://youtu.be/JuPw46NCNDs?si=tCYBbxtyaOCAaYSy

A much better use of your time is doing activism. All of the effort you are currently putting into irl activism just double it instead of draining your stamina.

Destroying a klan meeting is worthwhile, but its destructive. When it comes to the kind of low level activism you will be doing, constructive is better.

If you are out of ideas, then go down to a homeless camp and smoke cigarrettes with them. Ask them about their experiences. Take time to listen to them instead of telling them your problems. Think about how to use that information for your upcoming activism explosion around thanksgiving.

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[-] GarfieldYaoi@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thing is, I have WASPy relatives that I'm unfortunately going to be spending thanksgiving with as well and they're capital C CHUDs. I'm warning you, getting all up in their face is what they want. You could call them cracker all you want but CHUDs are mostly immune to emotional damage. If you go about it like that, all they'll do is laugh about it at work about how they totally owned their SJW relatives.

There's a more nuanced strategy I take. Just make them feel like the burden. You're there to have fun and they're the ones that cannot put politics aside for a single goddamn day if you have to call something out make sure to end it with "look, I'm not trying to argue, I'm just saying."

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[-] zephyreks@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Act like you've been indoctrinated by the "terrorist group Hummus"

[-] dronebama@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

That bit is so stupid it might work

[-] honeynut@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

invite your comrades and do some cultural revolution shit

[-] NeelixBiederman@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Pretend it's a yemeni wedding obama-drone

[-] Aryuproudomenowdaddy@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Bring a boombox and play the Palestinian communist song at full volume on a 10 hour loop. Write "Death to the first world unlimited genocide" on a shirt

[-] oregoncom@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Just start calling them liberals.

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

I think some silly prank is vastly inferior to just doing a "Stalin shouldn't have stopped at Berlin" style argument

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[-] MaxOS@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago
[-] duderium@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I’m at the point of not going and all my relatives are libs. I mean there isn’t a single chud at these gatherings and I still can’t stand it.

[-] dronebama@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Just quietly resigning yourself, what good does that do. Make it known to all of them that they are shit people for celebrating this fucking holiday. Make sure they know that.

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

They won't learn shit except that you are liable to have tantrums. You can make no progress as a communist if you are using this moralistic framing where people just disagree with you due to faulty character

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[-] xXthrowawayXx@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

You should actually try to get arrested. Be taken into custody during dinner.

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

geordi-no Get arrested during Thanksgiving

geordi-yes Get your chud uncle arrested during Thanksgiving

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