There's a TikTok trend right now of women asking their male partners (or others) "How often do you think of the Roman Empire?" and a significant amount of them responding "often" or "all the time".

Anybody that watches any news on tv cannot be saved. They will never understand anything that happens on this planet.

Anything positive at all about any type of cop, anything negative at all about any homeless person.

When anyone says "these days you can't-" in regards to anything progressive

Thinking crime has gotten worse, it's an absolute TV talking point that everyone repeats nowadays. If you try to bring up empirical evidence of crime decreasing every decade they just respond with some anecdotal bullshit they probably made up. It infuriates me and I wanna shout their face, "facts don't care about your feelings".

Anyone who not only doesn't consider ever taking public transportation, but is shocked that whoever they're speaking to would even suggest it.

I approach it the other way. Just assume most people have absolutely awful political opinions. Pray they don’t believe all homeless people should be thrown into internet camps and gassed. And then if I find out they don’t believe that I bring light into a somewhat correct political leaning and then try and crack it open. Often I use landlords as the go to bad people and see if they agree r if they seem confused why I hate landlords so much then I go into detail.

Just ask them about all the homeless you see around town. This is the American equivalent of asking a European about the Roma

Being afraid of Chicago is a pretty good (though not perfect) tell about where they're getting their news. A lot of right-wing sources will go full

take some ideological stand against tipping

I love when they pretend to take the side of the worker by pointing out that it's the restaurant who is screwing their servers by underpaying them and making them rely on tips, which is of course 100% true but you're still eating at the restaurant.

I don't like tipping culture either, so I just... don't eat at restaurants. I actually don't need food slaves to serve me.

A fash dude in person tried to get into a group I was organizing with. We went on a day there, day back roadtrip with him before we really knew him and by the end of it we cut him out completely.

Two biggest red flags were:

1. He had a paranoid obsession with societal collapse, kept repeating stupid shit like "we're nine missed meals from murdering each other in the streets"
2. Pretty much the first thing he asked was our ethnic background, and he had a bit too much of an "interest" in ethnic cultural differences and the like

It didn't take long for the full fash ideology to be on display and as soon as we dropped him off we blocked him on everything and never looked back.

"jesus was black"

"king tut was black"

"you need to embrace your divine femininity"

"I dont eat gmos, msg, or processed milk"

a ~~white~~ person who says "im not religious im spiritual" actually i know shitty black people who say that

if you hear this you are going to meet the most reactionary person i swear to god.

"did you hear about News Event? It just seems a little suspicious"

Always turns into maybe a Chinese space laser did it

"So, you watch anime?"

Not an ironclad rule by any means, but enough to make me start paying attention.

this hair and beard combo, seen on living people

Hitler youth haircut is 100% sus.

Insisting that there is nothing questionable about works of science fiction/fantasy that have inherently evil races that it's morally right to exterminate and saying you're just being a sensitive snowflake if you find the concept off-putting

Bonus points if they use the Thermian argument when you point out the similarities to colonialist and fascist ideology, as if the creator didn't make a conscious choice to write the story that way

The Iron Dream pointed out how gross this concept was way back in the 70s and that really should've been the end of it

"But I need enemies that the protagonists can kill without getting into messy moral quandaries" that's what fascists, imperialists, and slavers are for

This one is going to be US-centric, but if they're vocal about how they only care about college sports specifically and aren't a fan of pro sports there's a substantial chance they're a horrible reactionary and probably worse than your average chud.

I'm interested to see how the effects of things like the NIL in college sports (players are now legally getting paid through boosters of colleges as a short summary) will impact these people's fandom (if at all) in the future. This is interesting as their "defense" has always been about how it's been a more "pure" form of the game without players getting paid which I'm fairly certain is just thinly-veiled racism.

People who worship the royals, especially if they’re not brits. Every time I’ve met one it’s always been a matter of time before they go full mask off and say something racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic

"nondenominational church"

Talks about "working families" instead of workers when complaining about government policy.

Dislikes both parties, but when pressed cites a dislike of people rather than policy or ideology.

Recently in Aus. Plans to vote no on the voice referendum at all, but especially if they say because "it will create apartheid". For who motherfucker!? (There are, admittedly, some leftists who don't want a voice because they want a treaty first but also this is dumb we need both and also to drive the coalition into the sea, specifically the part of it with the most box jellyfish)

Being too intensely interested in football.

Football is a popular working class pastime, a great way to get exercise and a great way to socialise as a player or as a fan. Literal billions enjoy football worldwide and there's nothing wrong about that.

But then there's the kind of guy who is so much into football that he makes it a defining part of his personality. These kind of guys are more likely than not to be aggressive and nasty chuds.

Doesn't shut up about some (any) slogan that starts with "abolish"

This is tangentially related but side shave means you're queer, sorry I don't make the rules