I want to start this post with the caveat that I have a wonderful partner and good leftist support system in general. And I’m also lucky that I don’t have to deal with many chuds.
But, outside my own bubble or when meeting acquaintances and friends of friends in general it’s shocking how quickly liberals manage to show their ass in conversation and it makes me just not want to engage with them. I don’t want to not socialize with people who I meet, but it’s incredibly frustrating when these fucking shitstains revert to North Korea jokes in 2025. We’re melting the planet and live streaming a genocide, but it doesn’t make you the life of the party reminding people of that.
Any tips for dealing with these smug liberals without embarrassing yourself?
I’ve lost my patience a handful of times, so I relate, but I think it goes a long way to calmly state why you believe their views are regressive in much the same way they already identify the chuds views as regressive. Libs define their political identity as the inverse of chuds, so the quickest way to get them to, at the very least, shut up is to point out all the ways in which they’re still similar, but with a calm tone so they don’t feel like you’re one of the many chuds they’ve previously encountered. If you have good rapport and good rheroric they may even be turned away from liberalism.
This is the answer. It’s often tougher in practice than theory, but that’s probably just a matter of having to get used to talking to more libs.