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How do you deal with socializing with liberals? (hexbear.net)
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I want to start this post with the caveat that I have a wonderful partner and good leftist support system in general. And I'm also lucky that I don't have to deal with many chuds.

But, outside my own bubble or when meeting acquaintances and friends of friends in general it's shocking how quickly liberals manage to show their ass in conversation and it makes me just not want to engage with them. I don't want to not socialize with people who I meet, but it's incredibly frustrating when these fucking shitstains revert to North Korea jokes in 2025. We're melting the planet and live streaming a genocide, but it doesn't make you the life of the party reminding people of that.

Any tips for dealing with these smug liberals without embarrassing yourself?

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[–] Vingst@hexbear.net 29 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I mean I've kinda learned lately not to really argue about the absolute overall state of countries neither of us have been to, but I do sow distrust in the US gov't and NATO and highlight irrefutable positives of other countries' revolutions. All my IRL friends are libs or anarchists. I'm not trying to die on a hill. It's a give and take thing. Local progress won't come from painting by the numbers of other movements far away in time and location, IMHO. Be cool, be charming, be graceful. I know it's hard, I blow my top sometimes too.

Be like water, flow around jabs, seep into cracks.