Yeah I feel like it's a blessing in disguise more than anything.
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SaddamHussein24@lemmygrad.ml 1 year ago
Sorry to be blunt, but if they blocked you just because of your political opinions, then they were never your friends. A real friend doesnt care about your political opinions, he may disagree but he will always be your friend no matter what. Heck here in Spain when we had the Civil War in 1936 you would have literal fascists helping their communist friends flee the country and escape execution at the hands of the fascists. Thats what real friendship looks like mate. Dont even bother with those losers.
ledward@lemmygrad.ml 1 year ago
Weyland@lemmygrad.ml 1 year ago
One of them literally spent a few months with me in China. The other, while not a good friend, I did enjoy a few dinners and hours commuting with. Knowing that a person is disgusted by you to a point where they'd rather just forget the many many hours you've spent together all because of a propaganda campaign launched by a doomsday cult in collaboration with the US government really puts things in perspective.
I have the feeling that if I lived through the worst of McCarthyism these same people would have me handed over to the central authorities, or worse if I lived in Indonesia during their genocide campaigns they'd personally take me to the beach, plant me face first in the sand and put a bullet through my head. What propaganda can do to people never fails to surprise me.
SaddamHussein24@lemmygrad.ml 1 year ago
Damn, thats fucked. Maybe anglos are especially deranged i dont know. Here in Spain ive never seen anything like this. Like my parents, who are very left wing, almost communist (i guess you could call it "communist with liberal characteristics") have an old friend who is very right wing, possibly even fascist (he served as an officer in the spanish military during the fascist dictatorship). While they ofc rarely talk politics because the discussion can get very heated, they nevertheless are friends, and its not like they dont know each others political ideas. I dont know maybe anglos are more brainwashed than us.
Weyland@lemmygrad.ml 1 year ago
My family situation is the complete opposite of yours. I didn't become a socialist because of my family situation, but rather despite of it. Even though my family are literal fascists, I don't really have right-wing friends as I made the pleasant mistake of deciding to make friends with non-native looking people. Once you hang out with one person of colour it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Friends that have even a single racist bone in their body will soon try to create distance between the both of you when they find out that "you inviting that black/brown fellah" is a common occurrence. I'm not suggesting all right-wingers are racist, but if those two ven diagrams overlap quite a lot. Sadly most of these "other people" not wanting to hang out with us mostly happened with other ex-pats white (or Chinese natives) in China, though that might have to do with it being a lot easier to make new friends in ex-pat communities.
Rafael_Luisi@lemmygrad.ml 1 year ago
The virgin anglos Vs the chad latin countries
SaddamHussein24@lemmygrad.ml 1 year ago
Chad face: si