Some months ago, i was in a cosplay convention and there was a political organization called the women’s league of voters. The person that was promoting the organization called me and she asked me some questions about voting. I told her I am against voting but in a very outlandish and vauge way because I was afraid I would give out too much information on my politics.

This made me wonder what should I do if I get sucked into political conversations. Do any of you guys have any advice?

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      1 year ago

      Dunk on them. Deploy rhetorical nukes. Use the power of material analysis to make their liberal idealism look silly. Treat it as a contest and come out on top. Win.

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        1 year ago

        This is what I’ve taken to lately… If they’re a religious conservative.

        If they come from a less unhinged, though still clearly misguided, point or view, I play nicer.

        I grew up in a conservative family, though, and went to a religious school. Which why I’m a Marxist atheist now. Which is also why I have no tolerance for religious conservatives and dunk on them relentlessly with their own Bible.

        EDIT: I should add that I’m nicer to neighborhood liberals because I think they more often come from a standpoint of wanting what seems to be better for everyone than what we have now. Conservatives just want subjugation, so fuck them.

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      “Own the libs with facts and logic” but with real facts and logic instead of rhetorical flourishes and strawmanning.