got called a vatnik, a tankie, a Russia lover

that is more online than being against the ukraine war

I just go quiet when anyone start yapping Lib or Chud shit and just say “uh hun, yeah” and don’t give them anything till they get bored and go back to talking about other shit.

IDK I bring up some stuff that’s pretty outside the mainstream on the regular, people are pretty receptive nowadays I’m finding (Philly). Our analysis conforms with reality for most people, weird. This can of course always happen, you found someone whose programming at that point was just going to totally shutdown on or reject some points.

Anecdotal but if it’s any consolation I met a guy in a random video chat (minichat/ome dot TV/chatruletka network) who was in Ukraine, with his wife and cat. They were in a rolling power outage and bored, he was pretty articulate but his wife had way better English. They were actually on the level and agreed that they were just getting fucked by NATO too, and the war should have ended years ago rather than what’s been going on. I didn’t even bring it up.

I’m only here because they call me tankie everywhere else and I dont even like any of you.

I’m surrounded by oinking hogs so a part of my weird internet politics actually vibes with them really easily, problem there is that any time culture war bullshit comes up I get basically the same treatment you’re describing but in a hog-talk style.

Fake. Z post IRL. People can smell your half-baked unconfident position and it’s contradictions. You will only win them over with full throated anti-imperialism

It’s funny because my friend group basically does that when I go off on political stuff because A) my sheer force of will, B) I have a degree in history (associates, but still) and C) they’re mostly laid-back nerds

The one time there was push back, it was the member of the friend group we expelled because he yelled slurs at his newborn son while we were playing a game

I’ve been open about my politics for 14 years now and it only got me accosted once. I’m surrounded by mostly reactionary Christian fundamentalists or apolitical Latinos so no one really knows what to make of me. Most people just think I’m joking.

I’m not gonna jump straight to stanning DPRK with people (though I definitely will plant the seed about the insane propaganda being fake and the insanity of the US bombing campaign and shit) but honestly its rare that I get someone who is committed enough to their political stances to push back when presented with someone who clearly has thought more about it and is more familiar wit hthe situation. So I just go for it, more or less.

Imma pull out the Keffiyeh and EFF beret when someone starts coping at me for being too political

to AmeriKKKa, “israel”, uKKK and Europe

I told my friend I eat some beanis and he called me a Crypto bro.

You got called a tankie IRL? That’s so fucking funny, who were you even talking to? some Vaush horse enjoyer?

I would love to be called a tankie irl instead of having to debunk “Oh Israel is a ethnostate but they’re a lot of ethnostates in the world and they don’t get any flack” over and over again.

Communists disdain to hide their views.

My friends: you hear about Russia sending ships to Cuba?

Me: yeah, it’s great.

My friends:

I just want the US embargo to end so people can get essential supplies. If they have to get them from somewhere else, whose fault is that…

You ain’t done nothing if you ain’t been called a tankie