My wife's a hopeless radlib, maybe demsoc. I am very open about my politics and she doesn't care for the most part. I have tried to convert her but she's got somelib hangups and can't accept the historical necessity of violence. so we mostly agree until i say some shit, then she just sighs and calls me crazy. love her

Everything remotely bad is attributed to Russian/Chinese subterfuge. I'm reminded of the nordstream explosion. every liberal in my personal life was convinced russia sabotaged their own pipeline. no amount of common sense or evidence could override the decades of propaganda.

Good post

This is their own update as of 1/25, showing 152 workers killed

I think you've got the right idea. A lot of the people I know that are into golf just like hanging out outside with friends. Sure a few of them are well off, but I think the appeal as you age and have kids has more to do with being the 'third place'.

there are comments in this very thread that are doing that lol

It finally happened, today is a good day

My wife is a lib, and won't convert despite my best efforts. Her opinions are mostly good, but there are some real dogshit ones. I think it's a good reminder that people don't always agree, and you have to find a way to live with that

We are so happy, she's the best partner I've ever had. I shudder to think what my life would be like if I disqualified her for not being ml

well said. this type of liberal pacifism isn't pacifism at all, but rather a preference for the slow, abstract violence of the status quo to revolutionary violence. I'm reminded of the twain quote you had in the mega a few weeks back.

I feel as though anyone with an appreciation for history must acknowledge the necessary role of violence (or the threat thereof), in the slow march of progress

its so hard not to feel alienated or experience derealization

Absolutely. The way that I have been able to break through with the liberals in my life has been by comparing it to the Nat Turner's rebellion, the Haitian slave revolt, or the Warsaw ghetto uprising. Sure, you can sit here comfortably in the imperial core and talk about how no violence is acceptable, but could you honestly blame the slave or the ghettoized for their violent uprisings? Especially since any attempts at negotiations or peaceful protest have been met with violence in this case - the 2005 ceasefire and the march of return.

Abhorring violence of this type is liberal idealism at its finest

GOOD post