My Fox News in-laws “revealed” to my wife that I have evil books (I don’t hide them, they’re on the bookshelf) and that I’m probably a communist. She asked “what even is that?” and they didn’t know how to answer.
“what even is that?”
this is such a funny question to pose to people, props to your wife
they’re on the bookshelf
Hilarious, revealing something prominently displayed in your house.
My wife’s a hopeless radlib, maybe demsoc. I am very open about my politics and she doesn’t care for the most part. I have tried to convert her but she’s got somelib hangups and can’t accept the historical necessity of violence. so we mostly agree until i say some
shit, then she just sighs and calls me crazy. love herThis is almost identical to my own relationship lol. I feel this combination of people is quite common for commies
I don’t care if this doxes me, it’s still wild. One of my prominent, public facing social media accounts used to have a profile picture of me laying flowers at Marx and Jenny’s grave. It’s very obvious from the picture what I’m doing and who’s grave I’m at since the tombstone is shaped like Marx’s head and there’s a big engraving saying “Workers of all lands unite.” Family members used to come to my account too to reminisce or catch up or whatever.
This was my picture for years. I’ve also been pretty vocal for over a decade now. My own mother didn’t realize I’m a communist until this last Christmas where I said hope the next time Jeff Bezos gets in a rocketship that it blows up on the launch pad. Like she audibly gasped and I guess the two cogs in her head finally turned. Straight up, “Wait, are you a communist?!” in a shocked voice
I had sort of the reverse with a co-worker recently where I told him he sounded like a communist because all his beliefs were basically that and he was shocked to find that out
ur mom thought you were a radlib, owned
That’s honestly hilarious
My first long term gf was/is a proud lib. I think we were watching Saving Private Ryan and somehow the conversation got to her asking if I’d have volunteered to serve in Vietnam. I think everyone knows my answer. She goes on this diatribe about the horror of the Soviet Union and communism, the KGB, and the dominoe theory. I pointed out that Vietnam won, and that was the last time we watched a war movie together.
When you say liberal i at least assume democrat. Which democrat thinks about volunteering for Vietnam, thats insane.
There are even republicans who are against that war since the only “reedeming Quality” of that war makes sense If you are a rabid dog that still believes the Red scare.
Idk im european so maybe im overreacting but isnt the Vietnam unpopular for the majority in the US?
It’s kind of a mix. The Vietnam War is mostly unpopular now, but at the time there were plenty of liberals foaming at the mouth to “stop communism”. They may dislike the conservatives, but they’re still nationalists, and being called communists by the republicans all the time has put a chip on their shoulder where they want to prove that they’re both patriotic and smarter than them. The Iraq War is a good example: the liberals saw the massive genocidal war crime unfolding in front of them, and their response was “this is so awful and sloppy and senseless, Bush is uniquely stupid, vote for us and we’ll do this war of occupation in a smart, sensible way.”
They’re mostly just as bloodthirsty as the overt right wingers, but they have some kind of decorum/denial fetish that compels them to do little procedural, bureaucratic and semantic dances around their bigotries and libidinal urges, rather than just admit them, even to themselves
I think she was into his communism until it challenged her. Liberals are so comfortable expressing views they would never act on.
Or the guy was never a communist and they were just fishing for clicks/dopamine.
Oh, she probably knew from the beginning but once he set out on a 5-year plan, there was no backing out
How do people live without being political? Everything is political. How do you live with someone who doesn’t in fact know much about you if they don’t know this?
A lot of people are weirdly comfortable with their lives and don’t feel like anything is structurally wrong. If they have issues they blame themselves or fate. You’ll hear a common refrain from them like, “I just want to focus on my own life.” They’re completely atomized and yet prefer it that way.
This is the majority of white Americans, by the way.
