As someone who’s been tabling for an org I’m in I find it hard to not get discouraged by apathetic libs and chuds who I talk to. Just today I had some old guy to tell me to move to Russia or Cuba and call me a communist piece of shit. It’s probably due to already having anxiety and other issues, but stuff like that can get demoralizing. So how to y’all push through that?
I ask them to buy me a ticket since I’m a commie freeloader
But generally speaking, I have no interest in engaging with those types of people so their insults don’t affect me.
I think the other part is seeing how stupid and incoherent many pro-westerners can be. I’ve lingered around protest sites after the event with some org members just to chat, and some of the counter protestors would just smile and try to chat or say hi as if the things he chanted earlier didn’t constitute a curb stomping. It’s a sport to them. They expect to just shake hands at the end. Dangerous people nonetheless, but also dumb.