I just had an old and dear friend -- who's pretty progressive! -- say he's afraid of my politics, and i'm really sad about that.
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Replying to @adrienneleigh
if your politics are scary to him i hope he never googles "ancap ball"
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Replying to @chaosprime
I think the implication is that mine scare him because i'm basically on the correct side of things? :\
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Replying to @adrienneleigh
oh, so if things get better that will imply they're different from how they are now, and that's scary? i guess that's human enough
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Replying to @chaosprime
I think it's more that he thinks i'm an extremist. *shrug* It just makes me sad bc i love him.
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Replying to @adrienneleigh @chaosprime
I think it's the willingness to break eggs for omelets. And the thing is, i'm not actually all that willing to do that, even!
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Replying to @adrienneleigh @chaosprime
Nothing like some of the people i like and value, especially on here.
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Replying to @adrienneleigh
yeah, occasionally i get caught out on the fact that i'm a radical incrementalist and so can never really be one of the cool kids
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but seriously show me a systems designer who's a political revolutionary and i'll show you a really bad or inexperienced systems designer
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Replying to @chaosprime
idk, i'm sort of a systems designer and sort of revolutionary? (Which may, ofc, just mean i'm really bad at both.)
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