Thanks oppo!

Happy birthday, Comrade!

Not surprised cause they still ship weapons for genocide.

Four months ago I had an awful argument with my great-grandfather about Islam, and he's a HUGE Islamophobe. I've known this for years and I knew he would go full mask-off about it. He's MAGA and so are some others, sadly. They all watch US state media and I get frustrated everytime I hear it.

I won't repeat what he said but I kept telling him I didn't want to hear his bullshit about how MuSliMs aRe TeRRoRiSts.

Then after I got home, I decided that if anyone in my family tries to have these kinds of conversations with me, there's no point in trying to stay calm, I'll just start screaming and swearing at these people if they want to start shit with me. I have boundaries and principles, if you want to overstep my boundaries, well, fuck you then.

So far no one has tried to have political discussions with me. I told my mom that I was done with being nice if anyone wanted to share their reactionary talking points and she agreed with me.

What do you mean by that? India's government is very fascistic. Modi is a member of a hindu-supremacist group.

Do you know about a pogrom in 2002 that massacred over 1,000 muslims in Gujarat? Modi led the state of Gujarat at the time, and he encouraged the pogrom, the glorification of nazism in state textbooks.

What else do I need to say?

You're on Lemmygrad, a community for communists.

In the meantime, define "tankies", because you don't seem to know what that word means.

What makes it more hilarious is they can't even explain why they think that. Their only explanation is "because muh freedoms".

yep

What's your definition of a "free" Tibet?

One of the things I hate about liberals is how they tone police people. The moment people who show genuine concern for everyone and are actually engaged in the analysis of issues affecting people worldwide is the moment they start condescendingly talk down to them.

They act like you pushing back against their arrogant self-importance and smugness is you being disrespectful. They're never interested in hearing what you have to say. To them, calling out their genocidal racism, chauvinist behavior, hypocrisy, tokenism, etc. is you "not being open-minded". Excuse me? Whenever I list a number of reasons for liberals being indistinguishable from fascists, you start acting like a fascist. You get all excited about how Trump is going to do mass deportations as if you've never done the same thing. You get upset about how I'm not platforming your fascist apologism. It's pretty rich of you to accuse me of "not being open-minded" when you literally dismiss all evidence of NATO funding Nazis in Ukraine as "Russian Propaganda".

These people love to infantilize entire peoples and cultures. They love generalizing entire populations because of their countries' political structures, instead of thinking about the material conditions of a specific country they obsess over.

Liberals are truly some of the most insufferable people. The fact that I'm the only communist in my mostly reactionary family, some of whom are liberals, is mentally exhausting.

Hoping this doesn't weaken the axis of resistance.

I'm trying not to fall into doomerism, even though I'm pretty optimistic about the future.

We went to our grandparents house to see our other relatives and I did not say a word to them at all. Most of them are reactionaries, and the only political discussion I heard was anti-China garbage. I didn't even eat at the table with them, I just stayed upstairs.

This is my second year of not talking about politics with my family.