This may seem obvious to some but reminder to control your fucking power-level around your family, if you have niche political views. Seriously, even having "less extreme" but niche/controversial ideologies like libertarianism, non-ethnic nationalism, socialism, etc can offend some people and can even cause tension among your family members.

This is coming from an ancap whose family is mostly either hardcore neocons, neolibs or devout Catholics and almost all of them have a problem with my views, and are either trying to "de-radicalize" me or shun me.

@xianc78 I just avoid talking about anything even remotely political with people in real life. Whenever they ask my opinion I just immediately tell them that I'm not interested in such topics and they get it. Has saved me a lot of friction with people I know for sure are 100% hostile to whatever I think. Not that it's worth "owning them epic style", it's just family and friends.
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@kerosene Yeah, but these days people will even attack you for being neutral or silent on a subject. Remember during the George Floyd riots and one of the messages that was frequently spouted out is "silence is violence"? Now you can be shunned if you aren't explicitly woke, which is a huge problem for me because I do have far-left family members.

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@xianc78 Yeah that's a problem, usually the best thing is to change the topic of conversation but I guess the woke types are just too fixated in finding wrongthinkers wherever they go.
@kerosene @xianc78 I'm really thankful for my immediate family, we're basically 80-90% on the same page.
@xianc78 @kerosene “George Floyd? sorry I don’t follow celebrities.”

mfs be stumped at how retarded I sound when I say that and then leave me alone
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On the inverse: I remember when people made jokes about how Travis Scott was some police brutality victim because McDonald's named some burger after him.
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