I’m my department’s open anarchist / communist. I get the usual flak but I get a lot of people asking actual questions especially because I openly consider firefighting a part of mutual aid. Especially volunteers. The right wing trump folks, I push back on and have turned more than one around. They’re stupid, so it’s easy to talk circles around them.
In mine, I’m amazed at the amount of people who openly agree with me when I claim my left-wing status and start ranting about not having a left wing party that matters, who openly clamor for a union, who happily agree about the incredibly wealthy bosses taking in millions while some of our coworkers live in cars… and then they start spouting the fox news talking points a few minutes later. Especially with immigration/national security/“think of the children!” matters, it seems like we are culturally infected with maga rot even in otherwise ‘normal’ or even ‘leftist’ folks.
i like using what i have no idea if it’s “real” rhetoric but some form of “so there’s a line that’s ok with you?”
the US blows up a girls school. No problem? But Russia blows up a house and its bad? So what’s the line? 10 civilians? 1000?
if you toss in a dig that indicates they’d just throw up dip spit into their scba if we ever had to respond to a blown up girls school anyway… they usually shut up. no offense if you dip. (stop)
I’m my department’s open anarchist / communist. I get the usual flak but I get a lot of people asking actual questions especially because I openly consider firefighting a part of mutual aid. Especially volunteers. The right wing trump folks, I push back on and have turned more than one around. They’re stupid, so it’s easy to talk circles around them.
In mine, I’m amazed at the amount of people who openly agree with me when I claim my left-wing status and start ranting about not having a left wing party that matters, who openly clamor for a union, who happily agree about the incredibly wealthy bosses taking in millions while some of our coworkers live in cars… and then they start spouting the fox news talking points a few minutes later. Especially with immigration/national security/“think of the children!” matters, it seems like we are culturally infected with maga rot even in otherwise ‘normal’ or even ‘leftist’ folks.
i like using what i have no idea if it’s “real” rhetoric but some form of “so there’s a line that’s ok with you?”
the US blows up a girls school. No problem? But Russia blows up a house and its bad? So what’s the line? 10 civilians? 1000?
if you toss in a dig that indicates they’d just throw up dip spit into their scba if we ever had to respond to a blown up girls school anyway… they usually shut up. no offense if you dip. (stop)