Jimmie Higgins
1st December 2017, 16:14
Hey revlefters, post your stories of times you’ve embarrassed, effectively mocked or shut-down challenges from obnoxious liberals or conservatives.
I used to have some snappy one-liners to “love it or leave it” type comments, but I haven’t had that oldie thrown at me in a while so I don’t remember my old come-backs.
During the Iraq war I would sometimes give pro-war people directions to army recruiting offices when they got in my face.
After patiently explaining that I did not support Stalinism or the USSR, someone once kept telling me that I don’t know communism but they did because they were born in the USSR. I just started asking about what life there was like and they said they didn’t know because they were 3 when their family left. Then I mockingly asked if there was any political repression or corruption in free-market Russia.
I knew someone who used to just start mock-preaching nonsense about Jesus or talk about building a commune in the hollow center of the earth when confronted with obnoxious right wingers.
I used to have some snappy one-liners to “love it or leave it” type comments, but I haven’t had that oldie thrown at me in a while so I don’t remember my old come-backs.
During the Iraq war I would sometimes give pro-war people directions to army recruiting offices when they got in my face.
After patiently explaining that I did not support Stalinism or the USSR, someone once kept telling me that I don’t know communism but they did because they were born in the USSR. I just started asking about what life there was like and they said they didn’t know because they were 3 when their family left. Then I mockingly asked if there was any political repression or corruption in free-market Russia.
I knew someone who used to just start mock-preaching nonsense about Jesus or talk about building a commune in the hollow center of the earth when confronted with obnoxious right wingers.