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I try to be PC with my neighbors but I've been out of the propaganda narrative so long now, it's hard to not speak the truth casually, and that doesn't match their narrative. My problem, is I'm not smart enough to actually navigate the conversation when it happens. Sometimes after I say something "wrong" someone will correct me, and I act surprised. I say "Really? That's what happened? Wonder where I heard 'X'. " Acting like they are informing me of something or clarifying something to me seems to help show the inconsistencies in their stories though, luckily. "Sorry, what? I didn't know that, can you explain to me 'x'? " then they explain it and i say "Well that's strange, I've hear that 'Y' was happening." Then the conversation gets as interesting as it can get with a normie as I make them break down why they believe that, sometimes all I can think of in reply is "Huh, weird."

There is this one conversation I've learned to have with normies that I think is pretty funny. I've made up this "conspiracy" just to see how they respond to a conspiracy they've thought they've heard before but never heard it phrased that way. When the subject of global warming comes up I like to say "So the government knows exactly what we're doing that is causing global warming? Doesn't that mean that the government knows how to control the weather?" Then they spend the rest of the conversation explaining to me why humans having control over the weather is not the same as humans having an impact on the weather. Quite hard to keep a strait face.

I try to be PC with my neighbors but I've been out of the propaganda narrative so long now, it's hard to not speak the truth casually, and that doesn't match their narrative. My problem, is I'm not smart enough to actually navigate the conversation when it happens. Sometimes after I say something "wrong" someone will correct me, and I act surprised. I say "Really? That's what happened? Wonder where I heard 'X'. " Acting like they are informing me of something or clarifying something to me seems to help show the inconsistencies in their stories though, luckily. "Sorry, what? I didn't know that, can you explain to me 'x'? " then they explain it and i say "Well that's strange, I've hear that 'Y' was happening." Then the conversation gets as interesting as it can get with a normie as I make them break down why they believe that, sometimes all I can think of in reply is "Huh, weird." There is this one conversation I've learned to have with normies that I think is pretty funny. I've made up this "conspiracy" just to see how they respond to a conspiracy they've thought they've heard before but never heard it phrased that way. When the subject of global warming comes up I like to say "So the government knows exactly what we're doing that is causing global warming? Doesn't that mean that the government knows how to control the weather?" Then they spend the rest of the conversation explaining to me why humans having control over the weather is not the same as humans having an impact on the weather. Quite hard to keep a strait face.

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[–] [deleted] 2 pts

Yeah I can't navigate conversations on politics society history with normies anymore

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It is painful to do so. I tried to have a conversation with a neighbor about genetics but he wasn't having it. It's really hard for me to figure out what to talk about if it's not about politics, history, construction or human biology.