I feel there is very little we can do individually to change people's minds or turn them away from fascism, or even to get them to stop turning their own brains into soup, but you can still show them there are consequences to their actions.

Telling my own friends / relations what I think of them and cutting ties with them has done nothing to bring them back in line with normal human values, but at least I am not burdened with the guilt of my association, and maybe one day enough people will cut them off that the loneliness gets to them and they begin to re-evaluate their lives.

It is literally the least I can do. Any sadness I felt was heartbreak that they could be so shitty to begin with.

  • HexBroke [any, comrade/them]
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    6 months ago

    Furthermore, spending time shoveling the neighbors walkway, giving drunk friends a ride or helping your parents clean out their basement improves these people’s quality of life.

    Literally what fucking idyllic relationships are you envisioning here that people are going no contact on

    • farting_weedman [none/use name]
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      6 months ago

      Those are my own often fraught relationships with my insane destructive neighbor, self destructive alcoholic friend, and parents.

      I chose not to describe abuse because the point of my comment there was that doing those things helps the people around me out.