a hidden upside of organizing is you arent forced to be around chuds only 100% of your time. if anything it puts you in contact with saner people and makes you feel a bit more sane too.
This really can't be overstated. Joining my first local meeting was incredibly validating and felt like it breathed life back into me.
Oh yeah, I just moved back from college so I'm leaving my od org, but am looking for a new one, already have an ideia, but I need some time to get a job and stuff
People get very invested in things. Call "sunk cost fallacy" or just a lifetime of all pervading propaganda... It is particularly difficult for older people to fundamentally change their worldview. Even when things begin to get more difficult under that system, they double down on the belief that the system is sepf-evidently right, it's just that someone must be fucking with it to make it not work like it used to.
have they calculated how much they pay in taxes and how much they pay their boss?
If they did see how much they could be paid...
Honestly, they prbly just see the wages as a reflection of their worth....
I think it's possible to break through, but they'd have to understand the extent of US criminality around the world over the last 80 years.
Of course the constant work and lack of time to contemplate reality is part of the propaganda apparatus.
It's pretty hard. They say shit like business owners generate jobs, and get mad when you explain that's not true. It's funny how they can't explain why I'm wrong, and just say that they know from experience, what experience? The alienanting work under capitalism? What part of the horrible current situation and the darker and darker looking future do you not see?
Now we're at lib discourse 101....
What type of libs are they? Bleeding heart social libs (socially progressive, and economically reformist), the composed neolib, or the fash-adjacent libertarian? (the latter has to do with settler colonialism or smthn)
Closer to fash adjacent libertarian, but like conservative on almost everything except for "free market" stuff
Yeah my dad is quite the chud too. I still love him though, but it's hard to connect with someone who doesn't live in the same plane of reality as you. With the fascists he gets his news from, they always start with a grain of truth. So at least we were both able to talk shit about the military industrial complex the other day. But for him, he thinks it's just a matter of voting in the right guy to "drain the swamp" and make things "constitutional" again. For me, as a straight up communist, I don't even think our settler colonial genocidal slave state even has a right to exist. But I think he'd have a shit fit if he knew I was actually communist lol.
It's really sad because I can see the ways his programming has harmed himself and our family, and mostly himself, but I don't know if he'll ever be able to see that.
With the fascists he gets his news from, they always start with a grain of truth
Even Rush Limbaugh (may he rest in piss) used this strategy. It's honestly kind of impressive how right wing personalities can segue from easily agreeable things to outright conspiracies in just a few breaths.
"The government sucks, we must put this sock puppet of the bourgeoisie in the presidency"
The signature chud propaganda move is saying true things for 30% of a sentence and then falling off a cliff.
It's really hard to connect in anything that touches work or anything remotely related to politics. Getting news from fash types during your whole life must really make a number on someones head. He is nice and we do talk for a long time occasionally, but holy shit is he a chud
And thank god for soc dems here, because at least they aren't anti-communist, at least some of them. Every fucking time I have to argue with a lib, I want to organize harder
What socdems?
Revolutionary social democrats from Lenin's time? (There was a time, when "socdems" were synonyms for communist)
That being said, yeah... your parents are a bit iffy... you ever wonder if they have a stake in acting the way they do, because the alternative is just too scary?
(like yk, westerners like to "hate" their gov't, but seem to defend it, against its foreign policy enemies all the time; in their consciousness, the western gov't that keeps on exploitin' them at least keeps the treats flowin' in their economy)
(like yk, westerners like to "hate" their gov't, but seem to defend it, against its foreign policy enemies all the time; in their consciousness, the western gov't that keeps on exploitin' them at least keeps the treats flowin' in their economy)
hate the government because it's objectively bad, but have no empathy for foreigners who they don't consider human. I really don't think people actually understand unequal exchange and look at it and decide it's good.
Literally no ideology. What they want will change on a whim.
That's why calling out hypocrisy in Chuds is lib tail chasing. They only care about 'winning'.
Oh mostly just my friends who are left leaning but not radicalized. They're not very involved in politics, organized socdems are horrible
And thank god for soc dems here, because at least they aren't anti-communist,
All current socdems, which we mainly regard as capitalist liberal-adjacent and thus right-deviationist, are what we call as part of "anti-communists" since they're more interested in preserving capitalism with safety nets.
Would you just say they're just less anti-communist, compared to others...
Yeah, I guess, or maybe not call these people socdems.
I feel the same. Yesterday I came home and found an Epoch Times on the coffee table. It's so over.
My dad watches steven crowder everyday and has the mug (that he broke)
We grew up poor, small house and horrible school district and him being stupid i realize has completely ruined my life.
Theres a part of me that understands he went through a lot himself and he did his best but hes such a repulsive and stubborn person that im having a hard time whether i should cut him off completely or not.
It's hard to just cut off people, especially family. But if having contact with them is making your life worse, do it, don't suffer through that.
Hes not that bad but minimal contact is all i can do
Same here. I love my dad, but he’s insanely reactionary and a virulent racist. I have heated “debates” almost every day at dinner time, where he never addresses any of my points and just says I’m wrong and proceeds to shill for one of the many right wing parties in my country. This shit is exhausting
Oh, I feel you, its exactly the same here, at least my dad isn't racist, but as for anything else, specially trans people he's not great. Still love him, but it's hard sometimes
This, but instead of my parents it's my childhood friends I've known most of my life.
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