I’d like to skip the part where I befriend someone for a month, find out they’re a ghoul or crypto dumbass, but I can’t abandon them because it’s too awkward since we’re constantly face to face everyday

  • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Just become overtly communist and settle for the ones that don't act as if you're insane

    • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      This is my method in most walks of life now. I don’t start with “let the streets run red with the blood of the capitalists” but I just unapologetically say “Communism good, USSR good, China good, US bad” and if someone hates me after that there was no reason to talk to them anyway

  • YuriMihalkov [comrade/them,any]
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    2 years ago

    you gotta develop shibboleths like shitting on Elon Musk or Jordan Peterson and try to casually deploy them whenever meeting someone

    • Shoegazer [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I mostly hung out with philosophy and sociology majors

      This is funny because most of the decent people I’ve encountered are outside of STEM majors, emphasis on the TE. The ones in health tend to be cool

  • RNAi [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Idk, my two STEM friends are tankies

    Skill issue maybe

  • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    I think it depends on what part of “STEM” you’re in. Where I’m at I’ll say openly at work anything short of “let every banker hang from the streetlights” and then at parties get drunk and start defending Stalin.

    The acceptable range of political opinions in neuroscience ranges from Liz Warren supporters to Maoism, with a handful of libertarian crypto nerds thrown in but they mostly know to shut the fuck up

  • UnicodeHamSic [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    If their minds weren't vulnerable they wouldn't get lost in the chud. Take their minds and make them leftists. I got one guy to go from 4chan to RPing VC in war games. I am counting that as a win.

  • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    ah, is very simple. make fun of bazinga brain shit and find the other stem people that think it's funny.

  • spectre [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Try sitting in the back of the room and making fun of all the dipshits in your class, that's what I did

  • machiabelly [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    lmao I'd just drop them. The thing about hot bitches is that we have no chill :alex-supplements:

  • MC_Kublai [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Many of the engineers from my discipline were chuddy redneck types (the climate change denying phobe variety), and extremely boring ones at that. Most of my friends were from other engineering disciplines and the humanities.

  • TheOwlReturns [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    I just constantly harass them for their reactionary tendencies and tell them to read wage labor and capital until they get it or they leave me alone.