Closest I have would be the guys who walk their dogs at the same dog park. I have no idea what any of their names are but I do know the names of the dogs, of course.
I have several different social circles. My work circle is mostly urban NPCs just because I work in the city. Some are a little more red-pilled, especially the guys.
I live about 20 minutes out of town in the stix, where people kill time with off-roading and hunting. Politically more my kind of crowd, although it's a tight-knit community and I'm a newcomer, so I've had to prove I'm not there to disrupt anything.
I also still game online with a number of my old high-school friends and drinking buddies from my early 20s. Some have gone a bit woke, mostly the married ones: others are based. We just don't talk politics, since we all have two decades of shared experiences to fill conversation with.
my friends ranged from super libcuck to extremely based, with pretty much everything in between. we are all adults and are perfectly capable of separating our friendships from our political bullshit.
I'm not really an oddity at all anymore. Somewhat from filtering out acquaintances over the years that I just don't want to waste my energy on. Vegans? That's pretty much at minimum an eye roll and passive disapproval from everyone around me. Leftist-infested? Not the raging ones, and really not many of the mild ones. Hate life? I don't think so.
There's a lot of my day-to-day where I'm different. I don't watch TV much like you mention and that's one. I drink a lot less, although I don't really have alcohol-centric friends either. Most of my different priorities stem from the fact that I'm own my own and a lot of my friends are families/family men. It's better that way. Get to be 40 and whatever single people left are either depressed hermits or three times divorced people trying to relive the club and drinking culture of their early 20s. I'm fine avoiding that.
I'm guessing you're more surrounded by leftists from your notes here. Especially the meat thing. That is so alien to me. I'd feel more embarrassed if I were out to eat with friends and ordered one of those vegetarian fake burgers than I would a huge steak.
Less so by the day. I used to get a head shake and a "don't SAY things like that" about stuff I now get an exasperated eye roll and reluctant accusations of exaggeration rather than fabrication.
You have to do it slowly if you're trying to turn people. A breadcrumb here, a baby red pill there drop a bomb and retreat back to little deviations.
That's how it's always done, you must have to learn to do it. Picking your targets is half th3 battle, but it's easily doable.
As much as we (and I agree) that pointing out the double standards is largely pointless because everyone already knows about them, there ARE topics that normies genuinely haven't heard of, and if you can build towards those points and be the first to inform them
Here's an example, Bloomberg just published a piece on SWATing, great example of "Oh NOW its a problem" but because I'd laid the groundwork I was able to be ahead of it with my boomercon family
The groundwork was scaring them about online predators after an incident with a family friend months ago, convincing them to finnaly privatize and annonmize their social media accounts. That's an easy transition to th3 dangers of doxxing and why it's a special kind of bad action. Now I can tell them thay Bloomberg is carrying water for shitting politicians by pretending it's some brand new right wing troll tactic, when in actuality it's been the opposite for ages.
I'm the only guy in my friends group that is pro-Trump. I've even had some schizo rants about immigration. But they keep inviting me to things so no complaining from me.
My friends are center-left that have the stupid, I'm superior because I'm not right-wing mentality without having a great deal of knowledge. All they know is the right is racist, evil and dumb. Outside of that they've been shifting hard on immigration for the past year and a few of them are waking up to the sad truth of liberal women being poison.
This is pretty much how I red pill people. They come to me for dating advice and I break it down. Hell, even the lesbians I know are starting to hate liberal women.
How is Florida? I used to visit with my family when I was a kid but that was a decade and a half ago. Had a few friends move down there when the COVID lockdown happened. Promised land and all that.
Since I'm from the PNW, the lack of hills and fun driving is annoying. I work in Orlando, and there are a lot of lefties even here. Many of them want to do things the wet side of Washington and Oregon kept touting. The only major roads are paid.
On the other hand, they think Covid was three months long. I can say I hate lefties, go shoot guns, and find alligators cute.
(Dated a tranny and sucked it's dick and jokes about femboys a little too much, but doesn't really care if I use LGBT slurs or racial ones either, and is somewhat racist himself funnily enough)
To
(Average mindless default liberal who nonetheless is a good guy and good friend who disagrees with me cheerfully on politics)
To
(Less based than me but still uses the N word in private when making jokes about them)
All of these people are different races too. Weird little group.
The funny thing is, we're all friends because everyone is able to be rational and intelligent when it comes to classic American tolerance and simply ignoring the things we don't agree with about each other.
Some of y'all might rip me for the choice of friends but ehh, I don't know you fucks from tits on a frog
. I like driving ( Again, people view this as a chore and I don't, they don't seem to regard using a vehicle as anything vaguely enjoyable )
Come drive in the American city hellscape during rush hour and then tell me you enjoy driving again. Just got home and had several people try to kill me en route and my commute is only half an hour.
Out of my high school buddies/warzone squad: I'm the only one who voted Trump.
Out of my former roommates, I'm the only one who has never done drugs
Out of the people here, I'm the only one (to my knowledge) who works in a union job.
I like the Prequel Trilogy.
I am 6' 270lbs and I don't have a problem fitting in my Miata, whereas everyone else around me seems to feel like anything smaller than a F250 is too tiny despite the fact that they are 5'4".
I live in a very blue state, so it is pretty hard to find people who aren't either normies, or outright libtards.
Not at all, I keep my spicier opinions close to the vest though. Even the normies notice how shitty movies and stuff are these days. They just tend to see it more as innocent stupidity rather than sinister politics.
What massively sets you apart in terms of your hobbies and general habits?
Volume and trend chasing, I know people who consume insane amounts of product. I will discuss the 10% of it that I've also seen, but there is usually a ton that I haven't. People also chase trends. Palworld is the latest example. I don't do that. I tend to just wishlist games that look good and then pick them up on sale later.
I am of course thinking about how eating red meat and exercise and the leftist weirdos out there are trying to declare that far right.
I've never seen this out in the wild. I know people who believe red meat is unhealthy and people are huge fans of it but have never seen anyone IRL frame it politically. Almost everyone I know is either getting some exercise by hobby or just working out or is trying to get started.
ETA: I almost forgot about this. A ton of people I know drink a lot, and I don't so there is that. It does cost me socialization opportunities, but it's not "black sheep" level.
Motorcycle licensing is completely fucked in the UK. You could of got a 125cc licence with a car licence if the UK government weren't shitheads and now they are out of the EU they don't even need to limit it to that. You could have a bigger motorcycle on a learners licence and that was under EU rules again if the UK state weren't shitheads.
No wonder you get sovergien citizens claiming they have a right to drive under those conditions.
Been fortunate to have a solid group of great friends for a long time dating back to elementary school. There have been a couple pick ups along the way but the core is the same. There's some milquetoast centrism and some occasional NPC-lite comments but I wouldn't say there's a single leftie in the group. As such, it naturally leans right due to two of them being just as right leaning as myself.
Ya I'd say most of my friends just tend to humor or slightly agree with me. I don't advocate mass murdering jews or Homos so I'm generally accepted as a reasonable person. I just do some noticing.
The fact that I don't watch <popular show> or <popular movie> is a big catching point to other people I talk to. I wouldn't say I have a particularly good social circle and it got a lot worse during COVID (which is part of why I harbor so much anger towards those who did that to us)
I am in the group who hates driving and I avoid it when I can. Because of that, I get plenty of time walking in so I'm a healthy weight.
I tend to avoid controversy outside of internet anonymity unless the other person has first shown to have similar values. It isn't worth the potential consequences.
What family I have left holds fairly similar views on a lot of things but we don't agree 100%.
For instance their religion says you work and you work and you work. Why? That seems to benefit someone else. Maybe the guy who made the religion. There are clearly other religions that don't say that. They say you cheat and you cheat and you cheat. Well, who's smarter?
So someone will tell me to do something and I'll be like "fuck that; I'm not doing it". I do do things. I just only do the ones that I am willing to do. The servile attitude is my guess why these people are poor .
What circle? 👀
This. The closest thing I have to friends right now are the guys I work with every day.
Closest I have would be the guys who walk their dogs at the same dog park. I have no idea what any of their names are but I do know the names of the dogs, of course.
I def been there . Well I don't know if those are my friends. But they are my community. So there is that.
I learned some of their names. There are levels of autism now.
Get out of the city bro.
I have several different social circles. My work circle is mostly urban NPCs just because I work in the city. Some are a little more red-pilled, especially the guys.
I live about 20 minutes out of town in the stix, where people kill time with off-roading and hunting. Politically more my kind of crowd, although it's a tight-knit community and I'm a newcomer, so I've had to prove I'm not there to disrupt anything.
I also still game online with a number of my old high-school friends and drinking buddies from my early 20s. Some have gone a bit woke, mostly the married ones: others are based. We just don't talk politics, since we all have two decades of shared experiences to fill conversation with.
By choice, I don't have a circle. Well, I do, but it's my husband, a dog and a cat.
That's how much of a goddamn black sheep I am.
But I like cooking, and I like walking, which makes me fit in to my little circle. Cleaning, not so much, but that's why I'm with a janitor. 😉
You have a pyramid, and we all know who is at the top.
It's the cat, then you and your husband below, the dog is just happy to be involved.
Yes, that sounds about right.
my friends ranged from super libcuck to extremely based, with pretty much everything in between. we are all adults and are perfectly capable of separating our friendships from our political bullshit.
I'm not really an oddity at all anymore. Somewhat from filtering out acquaintances over the years that I just don't want to waste my energy on. Vegans? That's pretty much at minimum an eye roll and passive disapproval from everyone around me. Leftist-infested? Not the raging ones, and really not many of the mild ones. Hate life? I don't think so.
There's a lot of my day-to-day where I'm different. I don't watch TV much like you mention and that's one. I drink a lot less, although I don't really have alcohol-centric friends either. Most of my different priorities stem from the fact that I'm own my own and a lot of my friends are families/family men. It's better that way. Get to be 40 and whatever single people left are either depressed hermits or three times divorced people trying to relive the club and drinking culture of their early 20s. I'm fine avoiding that.
I'm guessing you're more surrounded by leftists from your notes here. Especially the meat thing. That is so alien to me. I'd feel more embarrassed if I were out to eat with friends and ordered one of those vegetarian fake burgers than I would a huge steak.
I don't have a "friends circle" but I know all of my neighbors.
Don't be afraid to be the annoying one who starts conversations when you see each other.
I don't broardcast my politics but they are all Christians or weed+guns Lolberts so we get along.
I don't really have a "circle" anymore. The cool hysteria killed it.
Less so by the day. I used to get a head shake and a "don't SAY things like that" about stuff I now get an exasperated eye roll and reluctant accusations of exaggeration rather than fabrication.
You have to do it slowly if you're trying to turn people. A breadcrumb here, a baby red pill there drop a bomb and retreat back to little deviations.
That's how it's always done, you must have to learn to do it. Picking your targets is half th3 battle, but it's easily doable.
As much as we (and I agree) that pointing out the double standards is largely pointless because everyone already knows about them, there ARE topics that normies genuinely haven't heard of, and if you can build towards those points and be the first to inform them
Here's an example, Bloomberg just published a piece on SWATing, great example of "Oh NOW its a problem" but because I'd laid the groundwork I was able to be ahead of it with my boomercon family
The groundwork was scaring them about online predators after an incident with a family friend months ago, convincing them to finnaly privatize and annonmize their social media accounts. That's an easy transition to th3 dangers of doxxing and why it's a special kind of bad action. Now I can tell them thay Bloomberg is carrying water for shitting politicians by pretending it's some brand new right wing troll tactic, when in actuality it's been the opposite for ages.
Then you just have to pick your battles.
I'm the only guy in my friends group that is pro-Trump. I've even had some schizo rants about immigration. But they keep inviting me to things so no complaining from me.
My friends are center-left that have the stupid, I'm superior because I'm not right-wing mentality without having a great deal of knowledge. All they know is the right is racist, evil and dumb. Outside of that they've been shifting hard on immigration for the past year and a few of them are waking up to the sad truth of liberal women being poison.
For younger men this tends to be one of the best ways to get them to see the light in my experience.
This is pretty much how I red pill people. They come to me for dating advice and I break it down. Hell, even the lesbians I know are starting to hate liberal women.
I love driving. I am really disappointed Florida doesn't have a lot of nice driving roads.
I've accepted being an odd one and work in odd businesses like themed design, conventions, theater, academia, or astro physics.
How is Florida? I used to visit with my family when I was a kid but that was a decade and a half ago. Had a few friends move down there when the COVID lockdown happened. Promised land and all that.
Since I'm from the PNW, the lack of hills and fun driving is annoying. I work in Orlando, and there are a lot of lefties even here. Many of them want to do things the wet side of Washington and Oregon kept touting. The only major roads are paid.
On the other hand, they think Covid was three months long. I can say I hate lefties, go shoot guns, and find alligators cute.
My friends range from
(Dated a tranny and sucked it's dick and jokes about femboys a little too much, but doesn't really care if I use LGBT slurs or racial ones either, and is somewhat racist himself funnily enough)
To
(Average mindless default liberal who nonetheless is a good guy and good friend who disagrees with me cheerfully on politics)
To
(Less based than me but still uses the N word in private when making jokes about them)
All of these people are different races too. Weird little group.
The funny thing is, we're all friends because everyone is able to be rational and intelligent when it comes to classic American tolerance and simply ignoring the things we don't agree with about each other.
Some of y'all might rip me for the choice of friends but ehh, I don't know you fucks from tits on a frog
Come drive in the American city hellscape during rush hour and then tell me you enjoy driving again. Just got home and had several people try to kill me en route and my commute is only half an hour.
You guys have circles?
Out of my high school buddies/warzone squad: I'm the only one who voted Trump.
Out of my former roommates, I'm the only one who has never done drugs
Out of the people here, I'm the only one (to my knowledge) who works in a union job.
I like the Prequel Trilogy.
I am 6' 270lbs and I don't have a problem fitting in my Miata, whereas everyone else around me seems to feel like anything smaller than a F250 is too tiny despite the fact that they are 5'4".
I live in a very blue state, so it is pretty hard to find people who aren't either normies, or outright libtards.
Not at all, I keep my spicier opinions close to the vest though. Even the normies notice how shitty movies and stuff are these days. They just tend to see it more as innocent stupidity rather than sinister politics.
Volume and trend chasing, I know people who consume insane amounts of product. I will discuss the 10% of it that I've also seen, but there is usually a ton that I haven't. People also chase trends. Palworld is the latest example. I don't do that. I tend to just wishlist games that look good and then pick them up on sale later.
I've never seen this out in the wild. I know people who believe red meat is unhealthy and people are huge fans of it but have never seen anyone IRL frame it politically. Almost everyone I know is either getting some exercise by hobby or just working out or is trying to get started.
ETA: I almost forgot about this. A ton of people I know drink a lot, and I don't so there is that. It does cost me socialization opportunities, but it's not "black sheep" level.
Motorcycle licensing is completely fucked in the UK. You could of got a 125cc licence with a car licence if the UK government weren't shitheads and now they are out of the EU they don't even need to limit it to that. You could have a bigger motorcycle on a learners licence and that was under EU rules again if the UK state weren't shitheads. No wonder you get sovergien citizens claiming they have a right to drive under those conditions.
Everyone I know seems to be into exercise and healthy eating, if anything, not doing those things are what makes you the black sheep.
There is also an acceptance of OnlyFans. Being against that (despite allowing people the freedom to do it) also makes you a black sheep.
Been fortunate to have a solid group of great friends for a long time dating back to elementary school. There have been a couple pick ups along the way but the core is the same. There's some milquetoast centrism and some occasional NPC-lite comments but I wouldn't say there's a single leftie in the group. As such, it naturally leans right due to two of them being just as right leaning as myself.
Ya I'd say most of my friends just tend to humor or slightly agree with me. I don't advocate mass murdering jews or Homos so I'm generally accepted as a reasonable person. I just do some noticing.
The fact that I don't watch <popular show> or <popular movie> is a big catching point to other people I talk to. I wouldn't say I have a particularly good social circle and it got a lot worse during COVID (which is part of why I harbor so much anger towards those who did that to us)
I am in the group who hates driving and I avoid it when I can. Because of that, I get plenty of time walking in so I'm a healthy weight.
I tend to avoid controversy outside of internet anonymity unless the other person has first shown to have similar values. It isn't worth the potential consequences.
What family I have left holds fairly similar views on a lot of things but we don't agree 100%.
My social circle all act basically poor.
For instance their religion says you work and you work and you work. Why? That seems to benefit someone else. Maybe the guy who made the religion. There are clearly other religions that don't say that. They say you cheat and you cheat and you cheat. Well, who's smarter?
So someone will tell me to do something and I'll be like "fuck that; I'm not doing it". I do do things. I just only do the ones that I am willing to do. The servile attitude is my guess why these people are poor .