chapotraphouse

https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueAnon/comments/1lq2egz/hans_fucking_zimmer/

Edit: so he's transphobe... Ah fuck...

That's right. In case you forgot, four years ago to this day I challenged tankies to a final debate on the merits of socialism vs capitalism. I told you meet me in the park downtown and I'll logically destroy you.

Well I've been waiting and you were all chicken. I lost my family, my home, my job, and have been very cold during the winters. But you COWARDS are too wrapped up in your echo chamber to debate me in person. Therefore you forfeit. Capitalism wins.

How do you like those beans?

Just sharing this as a "does anyone else ever feel this way?" post

I am fortunate to have a number of friends I have kept close most of my life, and a lot of family members who I am close with. I am unfortunate in that most of these people skew reactionary.

When I was a lib, it was easy for me to just write off political differences as inconsequential, especially since politics was a very minor part of my relationship with them. But now that I'm a commie, I've found it harder to not only keep up these relationships, but to actually feel love and care for people who I have loved and cared for for decades. Now in general, this isn't much of a problem with friends because I moved away from my hometown, and these relationships are kept on life support by group chats. These chats are largely just meme shit or talking about sports. But I've been surprised by an actual changing of feelings for two people who were my closest friends at one point.

But there is one person in particular for whom I am struggling with this. This person is my oldest and closest friend. This person knows I skew left but not as far left as I actually am. And I knew this person had libertarian leanings, but politics was something they never actually cared about in the past. In the last 6-12 months, they've gotten more strident and vocal with the libertarian crap (for example, telling me yesterday that they think it's ok that 16 million people will lose Medicaid coverage because the government shouldn't be in the business of healthcare). And as they have begun to be more serious and into their libertarian ideology, I find myself not feeling those same feelings of love and care, and really not sure I want to be this person's friend anymore. Someone I went to grade school with and really is like a brother. It's like, there's something about the libertarian ideology that if someone holds to it, I find it so repugnant that I can't be in a relationship with person. Not to mention this person has all sorts of anti-communist brainworms, which is why I've held back telling them how far left I've gone. They're genuinely not racist or anti-LGBTQ, I don't really think they are a "bad" person... but I just am so against their politics that I find I am starting to lack those feelings of love and friendship you should have for a close friend now.

This just feels jarring to me as I have always had very stable affections for people, and have always held love for people despite disagreements and seeing things differently. It feels like there is this massive gulf in how we see the world (because there is ofc) and that just sorta kills how I feel about this person.

Anyone else?

On a deeper level than small talk, of course.

I occasionally go on an SCP binge and I'm glad to see they've gone and stayed woke after the schiism. This is such a good SCP.

This party is definitely lib-brained, but they seem to at least be on the right track. They're a small party and I think it wouldn't be too tough to steer them further to the left. They say that they have some membership overlap with the Peace and Freedom Party. I think west coast secessionism is really gaining a lot of traction and i think it could be a good time to try and capitalize on it - I just don't know if these guys are the ones to do it.

Do Remember to guys when the ICE deports you to the fucking Atlantic Ocean