You engage them as human beings. Agree with them when you agree with them. Challenge them when they get reactionary. Be open about your politics but don’t make your entire relationship with them about politics. This is how you build trust.

Their experience will inform their ideology. And if they trust you as a person, one day they may be curious about communist thought.

Developing consciousness is a long-term battle, not an overnight one.

Idk. Yes, not disagreeing with your take on liberals. But it still is pretty alarming what Musk is doing. Even if we know the US state operates on behalf of the ruling class, it’s still unprecedented how one unelected billionaire is circumventing the modest levers of resistance the state apparatus has in order to slash public programs. In person, we shouldn’t poo-poo on people’s anxiety about it, but help them realize that this was always the end game of capitalism.

I’m so tired of working. 3 jobs and I’m still wondering if I can make my rent this month.

Ready to watch major sections of the Western left who have been calling out the media’s dishonest coverage of Gaza once again take the media bait and damn Trump for assisting the end of the Ukraine War.

Not that he’d be pursuing it for anti-imperialist reasons, like Biden pulling troops out of Afghanistan. But a positive development is still a positive development. And the Western liberal left won’t be able to recognize that.

Also seconding shrooms. It can be very effective in treating addictive habits and making you conscious of deeper motives in your behavior you may not be aware of.

The US drew up the Korean division line literally 2 days after they showed they were willing to drop a second nuke over a mass of civilians. It’s disingenuous to say that the US and Soviets had equal hands in dividing Korea.

The Soviets safeguarded the Korean people’s councils in the North. They did not even aim to be there. The US disbanded the people’s councils in the South and reinstalled Japanese collaborators. Today South Korea remains a US vassal state to this day, as the US president has ultimate command over the SK military.