General Discussion

I have rarely met people that ott. I have met nice Republican women and decent white working class men who are probably Republican.

But I do think conservatives irl can inadvertently con one into kowtowing to generally terrible ideas over something simpler, faster and less insane with less collateral damage all around.

I once stayed briefly with a family of genuinely nice Bible bangers. But it is still hard to be certain that such people wouldn’t be inclined to sign off on utterly terrible contracts with our creepy industrial sector that screws over all parties - those who agreed and those like me who would be horrified at the notion of trusting those tech creeps.

I have noticed that conservatives who are nice tend to be overly agreeable and its not a good fit w rage-against-the-machine lefties merely trying to be on coldly civil terms with douchey systems. And well…porcupine’s dilemma and all.
I do think civility and cordial relations with people of opposite political orientation is easy. But non-superficial cooperation is hard

All this observation is tedious. It has closed off a legitimate avenue of existence I used to have where on sidesteps tedious debates and does stuff that is better than various terrible ideas conservatives and centrists have. But back when it was easier to quietly avoid drivel wo making a scene.

My dad’s relatively conservative - we are Indian and he is not particularly religious, but he is Hindu. I am not - I am an atheist. We get along really well, but I certainly don’t overshare unnecessary things - well only my marijuana use really. I could. But it would lead to a long and tedious conversation which would go nowhere.

Otoh we are close enough that if these douchey systems get problematic beyond a point I could easily ask him for help wrt predatory mercenary stuff that is getting harder to handle solo.. let’s see..
Was just listening to one of these creepy local misogynists on his bike splintering my eardrums at 9:54-9:55 pm (0000F5D7). Another vicious misogynist at 10:46 pm.