8mo ago

My life is a parody

I met a guy in a bar, and they asked me why the democrats lost (we don't live in the US)

I replied with something along the lines of "because they didn't condemn the genocide in Gaza" and they responded with "isn't that hypocritical? The left claims to be against antisemitism"

I tried to explain the usual antizionism isn't antisemitism, but before I finished they responded with "but we have to give the [antisemitic slur] something"

I had to leave for my turn on the karaoke, but after that they came up to me apologizing and explaining how they hate both sides

I don't want to live in a shitty web comic

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Conversations like this are the norm and why i have a hard time believing anyone who says they changed someone's opinion on something. People tend to not have opinions or beliefs until they create them in the moment
- Yeah, my goal with these random discussions is to normalize my viewpoint, there's no way I'm immediately changing theirs
  
  Good outlook
- Would you like to elaborate on this?
  
  Pretty irresponsibly reductive on my part but i find that often times when you bring up a topic that someone thinks they should have an opinion on, they just repeat whatever thing made the most sense to them the last time they thought or heard about it.
  Then, after bumbling around the conversation trying to make it seem like they have actually thought about the thing they're talking about, they reflect a little bit and realize they probably sounded like they cared more than they actually do. That's where the "i actually hate both sides" part comes in.
  Most people just want to shoot the shit and will craft opinions out of thin air
The true imperial core moderate
wait wait wait, let me salvage this by saying what usually works in these types of situations -- "I HATE BOTH SIDES"
What did you sing?
- Hit em with the “anyway, here’s Wonderwall”
  
  I'd rather do "Nyanderwall"
- Summer wine
  
  Lana Del Rey's?
That was the wrong answer anyway, majority of Americans don't give a shit about Palestinians.
- The deciding factor in the presidential election was really just inflation, wasn't it? Just a bunch of bozos thinking that the president has a big lever labeled "economy" and that if the economy does poorly under Team Blue that they should try Team Red instead, and then when the economy does poorly under Team Red they should try Team Blue again. Aiding and endorsing genocide certainly lost Harris a large number of votes, but it was not the single determining factor. This is at least one analysis I heard which made sense to me.
  
  idk. Apparently the popular vote ended up being quite close so I'd venture to say there was no deciding factor and Killemall needed every one of the votes she set on fire.
  Yeah it looks like the final call had Harris down by 2.5 million or so, 50% to 48.4%. So, any issue that alienated or discouraged people, even if it wasn't deciding for people, likely played a factor.
  
  Too bad they're too ignorant to realize the economy does much more shit under republicans
You interacted with an average person. Also kopmala didn't lose because of it, sadly
This sounds aggressively German lmao
- Yeah I'm going to do a little racism and say this sounds super fucking German.

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