i just started a job a month ago and everyone in the area decided to have a dinner get together thing. it was fine until someone brought up politics and ruined my ignorant image of everyone present.

totally relate to this

I have a family vacation with my dumbass retired alcohol cop father in law next week.

I’ve had multiple blow ups with the family over the years. So this will be interesting

What sucks is my brother in law has gotten more liberal and disconnected with the struggle with his cushy job. So he is always spouting “progressive” politics with the family.

The only saving grace is my reformed mother in law and sister.

Its always a toss up if I’m going to spout my mouth off. Normally depends on how off base they get.

bosses talk about politics as a power move because they know their stupid bullshit can’t be challenged without retaliation

Say blatantly communist things without any of the sleeper cell activation vocabulary like “socialist” or “means of production” or “marxist” and see how long they’ll agree with your re-packaged ideas. Maybe not to your bosses but still:

“I think it was cool during the quarantines to see how everybody kept busy and found ways to contribute their work to the people around them even when they weren’t getting paid”

“I find it interesting that we don’t insensitivize companies to produce things that last longer so, instead, companies that produce things that need to be re-bought annually end up being more successful”

“It’s weird that the government gives subsidies to farms to not produce in order to protect market value when the people who are starving don’t take part in the market anyways. Couldn’t they just pay out subsidies and run nutrition programs instead?”

It’s kind of like playing ideological chicken. The economic education in the west is so dismal even the most basic Marxist-derrived analysis is groundbreaking and reasonable. Stuff like that feels amazing to land.

@ me when our leadership said “Taco” after trump tweeted about whiping out a civilization.

I feel like a communist spy in political conversations bcz I nod along with a ‘‘haha yeah’’, then show my true colors the moment they turn their backs

It helps that i kinda look like a big airhead guy and i smoke a ton of pot but I like pretending I just had a random thought and say it like it’s a bit if a joke.

“Heh… if you think about it like… if we didn’t go to the site and do the job… nobody would make any money so it’s kinda like we pay the boss hahaha”

Just to see if anyone gets the gears turning

I just say subtly communist things

In my Uni a NYT shitlib writer came to speak and after I heard he did reporting on China I may have asked him several questions on how China could build so much and do so well while the US is in active decline and why freedom matters if the capitalists control everything :3

(He was deeply uncomfortable the entire time but didn’t say anything because he didn’t want to look rude)

“There is a lot of unfinished business” is a handy phrase. You don’t need to specify.

is that kid ok

This is me until I get drunk at the company party.