I'm meeting a very cute guy tomorrow who so far seems like a liberal and anti-trump but generally not very concerned with politics. Should I try to hint at my anti-capitalist worldview over time and try to slowly shift his views? Should I try to immediately talk about it very openly and see how he reacts to it? Or will that scare him off? But does it matter if he gets scared off? Should I only be looking for people who already share my views? Or would that be narrowing my options too much? Basically, how much should I rant about capitalism on this date tomorrow?

  • Staines [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Simply having shared morals is enough.

    My partner is a good, kind person, and was just a regular lib who believed regular lib things about how we all fit into a fundamentally fair world. They radicalized super fast at university when completing their thesis - and all I did was suggest they ask themselves a few of the "forbidden questions" that libs are trained to ignore about the nature of exploitation and poverty.

    I feel slightly bad about it - they spent days looking at the data gathered for their thesis - and eventually realized, to paraphrase, "wow it's all rigged, bootstraps don't exist, and the poor are basically poisoned because it's profitable." Legit - shared morals plus the addition of the forbidden lens of marxism is what radicalizes everyone here. You just need to find a good person.

      • s_p_l_o_d_e [they/them,he/him]
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        4 years ago

        "If we keep putting all of our hopes and faith that a president will solve our problems for us, and they don't, who's to blame?"

        "The bad cops get arrested sometimes, but cops keep killing anyway. Why does this keep happening?"

        "Why are there so many homeless people? Why don't homeless shelters work?"

        "Why are there so many immigrants?"

        "Why does the economy keep crashing, didn't we already have a recession only 10 years ago? And 10 years before that? And 10 years before that?"

        "America has the most prisoners in the world?"

        "Is it wrong to bomb other countries?"

        "Why do these billionaires only come from rich families?"

        These are just examples that I just thought of, basically anything that questions systemic and structural oppression and capitalism.

          • RNAi [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Cuz if you think your economy is going bad, you can't imagine how bad is outside of the imperial center, basically high unemployment. Not to mention not being bombed by NATO or living in the aftermath of those bombings.

            Also, even 7 US$ an hour is a lot if you manage to somehow send part of it back to your family in your country where they can buy a lot of food.