Sounds like a golden opportunity. MAGAs are usually so painfully close to class consciousness but the stupid political ecosystem you all have over there makes everything adversarial and so they dig in and cover their ears when they anticipate interacting with someone such as a communist. Being neighbours with one gives you the opportunity to build a rapport with them without them reactively closing their minds off and othering you. It's a fantastic opportunity, so long as you haven't already othered them first.
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Talk about whatever, respecting the rules established by Lemmygrad. Failing to comply with the rules will grant you a few warnings, insisting on breaking them will grant you a beautiful shiny banwall.
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I agree. Part of the apprehension I have is because of the religious imagery fused with the specific rhetoric on their sign saying "Illegal immigrants, no rights!". I do think I'll try talking to them, but here's hoping they'll listen.
Break into their house and inject egg yolk into their furniture.
Recruit the neighbor to make a tiny library with you, set it up, and then begin filling it with the types of books they should be reading.
That's actually funny as shit.
If you do this, please let us know the outcome!
If it were me, I'd be starting conversations like, "did you see someone stuck a bunch of communist books in our library? At first I thought about getting rid of them, but I don't actually know anything about it besides all the cold war propaganda saying communism was bad, so I decided to actually look at what they had to say. Some of it was pretty interesting."
I think you should actually talk to him. Do avoid calling him out, but ask him a few questions. From my experience, right-winger usually recognize that there are things that are fundamentally wrong in society. They often get to an inch of attaining class consciousness before concluding "It's the minorities' fault" or something like that. If he doesn't already believe that, it shouldn't be hard to convince him that capitalists are bad (if not capitalism as a whole). Try to focus on the filthy rich ones first, lest he become defensive. Avoid focusing on the individual characteristics of capitalists, and more on their behavior as members of a class.
If you've done some reading, it shouldn't be hard to find more plausible reasons for society's ills than the ones he was taught. Just take it slow, seed some doubt in him and let it grow on its own. If you give him a good basis, he might very well reach a close to communist conclusion on his own, which will implant those ideas much more firmly than if they'd been fed by an outsider.
However if he's the billionaire larping kind, I'm afraid there's nothing I can say to help you.
Thanks. I will try talking to him about it. I was more so worried he might immediately go into the "gays gotta die" territory like a lot of the trumpies around here.
I do agree about right wingers being on the precipice before straight up twisting into believing something else. Maybe I can find something there.
Just so tired of the same rhetoric everywhere and now it's literally the apartment below lmao
Bro, is that Maoist Mario picture official? Where is it from?
There was a line of Mario themed flash cards for teaching kids all kinds of stuff in the early 90s, I think. In the card about Mao, they depicted him like the image above.
This wiki page on the Mario Quiz Cards has a bunch of pictures of them
My soul is happy knowing Maorio is canon.
This is an official Nontendo drawing from 89
That is amazing.
I’m kidding lol sorry for the confusion
Didnt know if it was a China release or something lol
I actually have no idea. If not official, it should totally be. I think I scooped it from here. Take and pass on Maorio.
It's from some official Nintendo quiz for kids iirc