Breaking out of the whole liberalism thing is pretty hard and very rare, especially in the imperial core. There often isn’t anyone else who listens or respects your political opinions, much less shares them. How do ya’ll get by? I don’t feel like I am.
I like to take small breaks from political stuff if it gets too stressful. A bit more difficult with the Ukraine situation, but I try to steer clear of that conversation topic with others.
Otherwise, talking to people here on Lemmygrad is actually fairly refreshing, and a good deal of fun, too!
A bit unrelated, but I actually find organizing the files on my computer to be fairly relaxing. Does anyone else feel that?
Not having an empty desktop and downloads folder is revisionist
I’m guilty of not clearing my Downloads folder more often, but I usually keep my Desktop clean
idk i like keeping stuff in my downloads folder just in case i might need it in the future
I’ve been lucky enough to’ve found a bunch of people who’re at least open to far-left ideology, that I know as long as I don’t praise Stalin or give them a lecture on AES I can talk about p much anything and not get scorn.
I think the key is finding the people who share your interests, and hate capitalism enough to be repulsed by what I call the “soft left”. they’re rare, but they’re out there. The internet is a wonderful place to find these humans.
But, often I end up in the situation of finding out someone I’ve hitched my friendship wagon to has some choice opinions, or is an anti-communist, or was just larping as an anti-capitalist, and I don’t really handle that well. I honestly have no idea how to go about dealing with that, other than just blocking/ghosting that person and pretending I was never really that close to them.
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called me an idiot for saying Britain was capitalist
This reminds me of a day I saw an ancap calling south korea “the less socialistic korea”, like wtf? why? what in SK remotely reminds them of communism?
At least that’s what I try to remind myself when I’m in a dark place.
I also like to look at history. Who were the ones colonizing half of the world? Who fought them? Who was setting up brutal dictatorships all over America and Asia? Who fought them?
thank you so much, this means a lot to hear.
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