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Depends on if you want to feel like you’re doing something by fighting a moral fight or if you want long term change. I think a lot of people would urge confrontation or cutting her off, but long term the best way of getting people out of those rabbit holes is to spend time with them on other hobbies and shared interests so they don’t feel like they need to go to a cult for a sense of belonging

Thanks!

I will learn more about the principal contradiction and come back to this. Appreciate the feedback from everyone, here to learn

I was going off what the OP said about him being rabidly right wing and murdering communists, which I don’t think anyone has challenged. I will educate myself on this topic more though

Ok, I take the point that imperialism is responsible for conservatism there, but I don’t really think that means we should skate over the abuses perpetrated by the conservatives themselves. I am happy our enemies are at each other’s throats

well, if I'm celebrating something alongside NATOids and Zionists then I've probably deeply fucked up somewhere in my belief system

Are you being flippant? Why is resisting western hegemony the only moral/political axis we care about? I don’t know anything about Raisi’s domestic policy tbh so can’t comment. But I don’t think it’s right to only focus on amerikkka bad while ignoring material conditions of those suffering under fascists globally.

ADHD coping is just constantly trying to trick your brain into shit. The promise of reward later works for some people (but not me because apparently I think so little of myself that I never believe I deserve rewards). Getting a friend to be in the same space as you for a period of time works quite well too. Annoyingly, bit of intense exercise early in the day actually does help me

A million times this. Your TV news in the US is shockingly low info - not that European or Canadian programming is much better these days tbh. This mega is so helpful for countering the general framing of western media discourse

Tales of having a lib fiancé pt 2648

Last night he tried to tell me that western countries should enact laws which allow them to seize assets of individuals and companies to pay for damages their country has done (like Russia in Ukraine) because “then the laws would bind them as well and western companies would have to act more responsibly / lobby their governments to not destroy things in other countries to avoid having their assets seized” and that it could also be used to punish companies that cause pollution etc.

When I told him the west would only ever use this tool as a cudgel to defend imperialism he was like “wow weird that I’m more left than you on this” because apparently the state seizing assets = leftism and how could I support nationalising industries and corporations but not this. He wanted us to ignore realpolitik and argue on an idealist basis only

Anyway I told him fundamentally he needs to realise that there is no “fix” for capitalism and we need to remove the private profit incentive and then fell asleep before he could respond lol

(Pls no responses telling me to leave him we are very happy)

50% on semiconductors are they fucking stupid

No no you see Trump would have put 200% tariffs! And nuked Paris! And immediately taken half the DNC prisoner upon his inauguration!

The Chinese brand that made the mini shredder the Israeli ambassador used changed the product name to “Israel Ambassador to the UN same model”

The advert says “you deserve to own one” lol