One of my relatives’ (almost) entire family works for Lockheed and Raytheon; the youngest also graduated from Harvard and votes Biden. Another relative works for the FBI. One is an oil executive. A few of them are landlords. A few of them are trying to become landlords.
:stalin-bummed:
I know a non-binary person who drives a hybrid car, changed their name to a synonym for "Peace," and works for a defense contractor
It seems like a lot of us have difficulty finding like-minded folk outside of explicitly leftist organizations. Or we all know at least a dozen absolutely evil people. It's disheartening but you gotta remember there are still good people out there, or good people who are confused because they live in a horrifying country full of propaganda everywhere. I've been trying to have a lot more faith in people recently.
So I have a huge extended family, numbering in the hundreds. About half of them are horrible in different ways. They're qanon theorists, klan members, used car salesmen, and overall racists of every kind. The ones that own stupid little pool supply businesses are the worst. They're like the rural version of smug suburbanites. They're always so sure of themselves, always bring up shit like stolen elections or something racist. They have a uniform too, polo shirt tucked into jeans and a cowboy hat because oh watch out they might decide to hop on a bull. Also one of my relatives is a Texas ranger. I hate it, but I've gotten one relative to come around and she even helped volunteer with me once, so that was cool.
Also no one should be allowed to wear a cowboy hat unless their name is Tommy Lee Jones.
weirdly almost everyone I've ever met in my hometown is some degree of leftist even people I meet randomly
yeah that's not typical and if I met a leftist randomly I'd fall to my knees and thank god, because that's never happened with me
closest was an instance where I thought I had met someone cool, talked about coops and greedy bosses, then suddenly he said Israel should be protected forever
That's cool, I didn't know we had any 北京人on hexbear
Death to America
Also one of my relatives is a Texas ranger.
I choose to believe that you are related to Chuck Norris.
Recently dawned on me as a real wake up epiphany that goal of life in this godforsaken country of the “American Dream”…is only to become a landlord.
And everyone thinks this on some level. Because we’ve been conditioned as good little aspiring capitalists that this is the ultimate fulfillment in life here.
Met two people in my neighborhood walking yesterday who seemed like potential comrades, through their responses to cops and immigration. But slowly and surely it was revealed that their whole world view was Neoliberal meritocracy work ideology and capitalism.
What a seriously rancid scene you’ve got there, comrade. Hate these selfish, greedy ghouls too.
That is the formula, isn't it? Work hard, build a pile of money, gamble it on property investments, then retire early. That's the path and it's what every financial advice seminar is about, it's what every person feels at an instinctual level. Oh sure it's dolled up in language about freedom and liberty and community, which is possibly why a lot of people only care to have a surface level understanding of the society they live in. The stuff about prosperity and hard work sounds more appealing than the simple reality of becoming a landlord.
The dream could also entail becoming a car dealership owner or owning a sports team depending on who you talk to. It's the instinct of white suburbanites. They'll often have an encyclopedia in their heads about various car models and their prices and when they talk it sounds like a sales pitch. Or they'll know intricate details about athlete salaries and their social lives. It's always seemed like a silhouette of what they feel liberation would be for them.
Lots of people just have a hobby about sports or cars. I mean, I can list facts and stats about vtubers til I'm blue in the face, I don't think about working for a streaming Corp.
yeah I guess I get cynical sometimes. nearly everyone I know only treats their own hobby as a potential way to make money
Weird thing is that my immediately family is nowhere that level. The most money they spent on for leisure was probably plane tickets to visit family every couple years. They’re all doing blue collar work. No idea how the others strayed so far.
They keep offering me jobs at Raytheon and I joke about thinking about it. In reality though I don’t think I can do anything for them without feeling like shit unless it’s like non clearance jobs plugging in routers at their office
I’m not making weapons for anyone lol. I get that every job leads back to exploiting some child in a third world country, but I refuse to contribute directly to a product designed to only turn them into ash
And to be honest, I don’t know how resistant I am to money brain. I imagine it’s inevitable that I start making decisions based on “how much money I can retain” and cope by sending a couple dollars to a socialist organization, if that is even legal lol. They’ll check all your contributions for background checks anyway.
well maybe if you quit staring at your fuckin shoes you coulda prevented this catastrophe.
nah just kiddin' that sucks dude. maybe go no contact and live in the woods to atone for the sins of your family.
I realized one of my relatives fought in the Korean War recently. Like, I knew he was in the army and if I bothered to think about how old he was I would have known, but I never did. I just had to casually sit there and keep joking and talking with my family while it sunk in that my family, my blood was over there, doing that. That evil was not so far removed from me. It was chilling.
My favorite relative (before he died) was in the navy for Korea. Had some real racist ideas about black people too, specifically crime stat bullshit. But weirdly, he had a thing about helping people from Central America. Guess he never got that particular bout of propaganda. It kills me to know what this country will do to even people with the best hearts.
Arsenic in the thanksgiving gravy. Its the only moral course of action.
