askchapo

the people I work with live in a literal entirely different reality. One thinks all you have to do is have babies and the government gives you so much money you can live in luxury (instead of just barely enough assistance that they don't die but live in squalor) and that they just give illegal immigrants free phones and apartments in New York. Like I don't even know what to fucking say to that. He thinks all the homeless are just crazy or choose to be homeless so you can't just make houses for them because idk they'll just wander off all crazy. Obviously I assume he supports the camps, the lethal injections, or both.

what's wild is the guy gave me a little pin from the GDR and a communist flag from the GDR because he collects stuff and despite knowing I'm a communist because I'm very open about my politics I guess he doesn't hate me (i'm one of the good ones? a naive kid to him? I don't know) which makes it harder for me to hate him as deeply and absolutely as his opinions merit but like holy shit every time we talk I get blindsided by some straight shit that just staggers me into silence because the only thoughts I become equipped with are "jesus fucking christ you need like 20 years re education"

even my sous chef who is like 95% great opinions is really anti China-pilled to the point I showed her the headline for "experts say China's plans to reduce emissions not enough to avert disaster" or whatever (paraphrasing) intending to be like "this is just another on the list of obvious anti-China propaganda pieces that avoid asking questions like "why are we criticizing China for falling short when the West is literally collectively walking back climate goals due to AI energy needs"" and she just like shut me up and was like I don't wanna talk about China. After going "have you considered you're getting propaganda?" immediately after seeing the headline, which was literally for an anti-China propaganda piece. She saw an anti-China headline and thought I was being exposed to pro-China propaganda because... I don't know? you guys posting it here and discussing it is propaganda i guess I have no idea. It really shut me down for the rest of the day, I hate being shut up