I made the mistake of balking at some particularly unhinged Ukraine/Russia rhetoric offline yesterday and got called a vatnik, a tankie, a Russia lover and I was even suspected of being pro-Israel and apparently a nazbol Aimee Therese follower or something
I'm not even invested in this shit, I just find the insane saber-rattling and warmongering unsettling 
When someone tells you Putler's going to invade Estonia, Poland and Finland for Lebensraum next if he's not stopped in Ukraine, just nod your head solemnly
I've been open about my politics for 14 years now and it only got me accosted once. I'm surrounded by mostly reactionary Christian fundamentalists or apolitical Latinos so no one really knows what to make of me. Most people just think I'm joking.
Literally what happens to me when I say anything good about AES. That's what dozens of hours. of vice news liberal journalism does to people.