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How do you deal with socializing with liberals? (hexbear.net)
submitted 6 months ago by Notcontenttobequiet@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@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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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 38 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I am completely and brutally honest with the non-participating liberals in my life who only participate via elections every few years. I hold back nothing. Most of them have slowly radicalised. They're not full blown communists but they can't fucking stand everything the liberal ideologues believe.

As for the true believers that are active politically? I fucking avoid them. I would get myself in trouble and converting anyone that is still a Starmerite at this point in time in Britain is not possible.

As for the conservative liberals (tories) I avoid them mostly but give them complete honesty too if I have to.

The farage voting reform liberals are a mess, I have time for some of them because they're just being duped. There is a considerable section of people that sincerely believe he wants to help people. They're fools but they're not bad people in a lot of cases, just going with the crowd and do not know better. The real fascist true believers deserve the wall though and I don't engage them if I can avoid it.