So I'm on my vacay, visiting several places in Asia. It's chill to get away from work and actually leave my apartment as if I'm not a shut-in. I'm eating at a curry place and there are two fellow Americans behind me, two young guys. They're talking about the recent ICE murders. They're presenting like...I don't know the word for this kind of modern men's fashion. It's when they've got skinny khakis, the pencil mustaches, slip on loafers without socks, and round glasses. Is there any even a word for this or are they just grad students
In any case it becomes clear that one of them is the liberal, the other is the conservative. The chud will say things like ICE needs more training and we can't assume anything until a court case is settled, the liberal agrees and says ICE should receive more money for training. Liberal says things like agents should be trained to shoot in the legs, chud says some people can get shot in the leg and still resist arrest so it's better to neutralize the target. Lib goes on to talk about the DHS Twitter account, "media diet," and how government accounts are using Ai to edit photos. Chud retorts with how liberals have already done that a million times, references edited photos of Kyle Rittenhouse. They go on to talk about various streamers I've never heard of.
I just hate this. They talk about ice and government use of force like it's a natural force like gravity and the important thing is to make sure you have the correct media information to formulate an opinion. Yeah I have a brain and can make a opinion based on my daily life and my experiences, I don't need to hand wring about potential biases in whatever internet personalities I listen to (I don't listen to any except maybe Vijay Prasad).
I actually did confront them at this point, said ICE simply shouldn't exist, that ICE is performing their intended function, and blah blah. I talked to them maybe 30 seconds, got a response of "huh, hadn't considered that" from the chud and then I left. I am becoming an old person shaking their cane at the youth? But like I never expected to be further to the left than people 15 years younger than me
Thank you for your attention to this matter as I resume my vacation hopefully free of further interactions like this
I don't think it's shaking your cane at the youth to yell at college students for being awful neolibs, since the issue isn't that they're young. You did a good thing imo.