you too oppo!

If other approaches aren’t going to get through to them, I get trying something else, but this doesn’t sound like it’ll work either. If you’re no longer trying to reach them, this might feel good a little in the moment, but it’s going to stress out you and the family more on your side pretty soon.

It's definitely something I don't want to happen at all. I'm generally pretty patient with people but I'm also not great at talking with family members about these things. I think it's more of a last resort than anything else. What I usually do is ask them to not have the conversation when I'm stressed out and come back when I'm ready. I'm open to having these conversations with them, but it takes a lot out of me pushing back against their racist talking points and encouraging them to educate themselves.

Four months ago I had an awful argument with my great-grandfather about Islam, and he's a HUGE Islamophobe. I've known this for years and I knew he would go full mask-off about it. He's MAGA and so are some others, sadly. They all watch US state media and I get frustrated everytime I hear it.

I won't repeat what he said but I kept telling him I didn't want to hear his bullshit about how MuSliMs aRe TeRRoRiSts.

Then after I got home, I decided that if anyone in my family tries to have these kinds of conversations with me, there's no point in trying to stay calm, I'll just start screaming and swearing at these people if they want to start shit with me. I have boundaries and principles, if you want to overstep my boundaries, well, fuck you then.

So far no one has tried to have political discussions with me. I told my mom that I was done with being nice if anyone wanted to share their reactionary talking points and she agreed with me.

What do you mean by that? India's government is very fascistic. Modi is a member of a hindu-supremacist group.

Do you know about a pogrom in 2002 that massacred over 1,000 muslims in Gujarat? Modi led the state of Gujarat at the time, and he encouraged the pogrom, the glorification of nazism in state textbooks.

What else do I need to say?

This will be a week full of celebrations. hitler's death, the liberation of Vietnam, etc.

Thanks for being here with us comrade. 🫂

Yeah. As an Autistic person, I feel a lot safer on lemmy than on reddit. I agree with you.

You're on Lemmygrad, a community for communists.

In the meantime, define "tankies", because you don't seem to know what that word means.

Thank you! How about a great week for you.

You know the comments section will be great when you see libs getting dunked on and hopelessly trying to go thermonuclear.

Uh... y-you too.

You have a great week too! Wait...

And they never stop to think that maybe they're being lied to, but yeah.

I'm glad the propaganda is finally starting to fall apart. It'll still take a long time for people to see through the lies.

Edit: also Trump is just weird.

What makes it more hilarious is they can't even explain why they think that. Their only explanation is "because muh freedoms".

That makes a lot of sense. I read Chinese media outlets like CGTN and Global Times and I've never once gotten a paywall. Chinese websites will never tell me to pay subscription fees.

Meanwhile we have western media outlets demanding subscription fees to read their propaganda. So much for "free press".

I'm Autistic as well. I don't think I've mentioned that.

Fuck RFK Jr.

That's all I have to say.

You have a great week too!

Liberals are never interested in what people have to say. Anytime we point out their crimes against humanity, they say we're "funded by Russia". Anytime we explain why their talking points are just outright wrong, we're "funded by Russia". Anyone that doesn't conform to their propaganda is a "Russian puppet". Everything that challenges them is "funded by Russia". (Or China or Iran as OP said)

I think they've always refused to take responsibility for their failures, crimes against humanity, and genocides. We saw them use this tactic in the U.S. election last year, that only made them more unpopular and more arrogant. My liberal father would dismiss reasons to not participate in the election as "Russian/Chinese/Iranian propaganda". I had this discussion with him twice and he claimed I was repeating Russian propaganda. I told him the outcome of the election didn't matter and there was no reason to vote in the election.

I've avoided talking to my family about politics and anytime they do I just leave the room because there's no reason to. Anytime they try to talk to me about US Bourgeois politics I just walk away. It's tiring talking to these people.

What's up with trump's hair?