The fact that the this coming from the red scare sub made me suspicious unfortunatly makes me the opposite of this guy.

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    This isn’t just being incredibly offline. This is being incredibly offline + having only friends that never talking about anything political

    For sure Alex is 100% cishet white male and 90+% of his friends are also cishet white people

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      its also dumbguy energy

      i got a dumbguy friend and its amazing what he just shuts out like ive seend the trend of golden-retriever boyfriend which i think is funny but those guys are people-pleasers often dumbguy energy is a force of its own and not to be trifled with

      the best if when you try to have a conversation about this stuff with your dumbguy friend and he listens and then says “i dunno man…” and you think he’ll give his opinion on the subject after that like most people but he doesnt he just trails off and lets things be silent for a moment and then wants to talk about video games or sports or something like he genuinely means he doesnt know lol

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      I don’t think being white or cishet has anything to do with it. Some people simply do not care about anything other than their own lives. I’ve seen it from the nicest classmates and coworkers to ghoulish Lockheed employees who simply think “epic rocket satellite whoa!” And these people range from white to Asian to Hispanic to black. Money is in their bank accounts. All is good with the world.

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        Not in my experience at least. I’ve met hundreds, if not thousands of very well off minorities my life and while they are on average more reactionary than their poorer counterparts and never talks about politics/social issues casually, every one that I’ve gotten close to has revealed they think about racial politics a ton

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    Aside from the “body count” one, this would be me without this website and the handful of lefty news sites/blogs I visit. Everything else is just piracy, translation app, some YouTube stuff but nothing political.

    I’m constantly being asked things which I have no context for. I assume it’s from titok or twitter. I don’t learn, form no opinion, and never hear about any of them again.

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    I can believe this is a real person. Some people really are that tuned out and only pay attention to entertainment.

    The only doubtful parts are someone who loves cartography not being aware of the conflict and thinking body count was about MW3. Body count is something people in his age group say all the time, especially guys. I could believe he didn’t know if he was mid 30’s.

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      I feel like body count as “number of people you’ve had sex with” was a thing when I was in my early 20s, and I’m in my mid 30s now.

  • theposterformerlyknownasgood [she/her]
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    This isn’t a real guy. There are no “Cartography nerds” who don’t know about the Israel Palestine conflict. You’ll also see that the person not being online just so happens to align themself with very online picadilos. The offline guy instantly sides with the view of OP on transgender stuff, Israel-Palestine, age gaps and any other issue.

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      I’m offline 90% of the time and I disagree. “From the river to the sea” isn’t some twitter slogan, so that and the “cartography nerd” gave the post away as fanfiction, but everything else is pretty reasonable.