Hot damn DS9 IS my favorite show. Who knew! DS9 knew.

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A lot of these don't work cause I joined the DSA at one point and they asked essentially "What is to be done?" (in different words) and I answered "Sorta nothing, I guess, I mean, capitalism seems to be collapsing pretty fast and like basically everyone I know is some kinda communist." Then there was a sorta awkward pause cause oh wow was I wrong.

I normally just tell people. Disdaining to conceal our aims and so forth. For those times when outright saying I'm a socialist would derail things into an unproductive debate about how "communism has never worked" or whatever, I usually default to saying I'm an anti-capitalist or something like that. Even then, I try to sneak in surplus value and class conflict and similar language. If I'm fairly certain I'm talking to another leftist, I let it slip as quickly as possible so we don't spend however many minutes using coded language and sniffing each other out.

Instead of saying "Xi"(<-Nerd) or "The President of China" (<- Orientalism), just say "The President" and force people to judge by context which one you're talking about.

If I say I’m not not a communist, I’m technically not saying I’m a communist.

Like this: I'm not a communist

I talk about and use the phrase political economy a lot, as well as materialism.

I tend to say that "we should look at the material conditions of" and then follow that with whatever is discussed and the material reasons. Or drawing from historical events aka using whataboutism, haha.

Also talking about class every opportunity I get.

And also I just tell people that I am a communist, depends on the place and the people though.

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