>>2319359Talking about politics with boomers in the Balkans is fascinating. Serbians tell you at first the usual stuff like NATO sucks,
if they are Albanians, they will on the contrary love NATO, just nod, pretend you agree and listen to what they have to say, this is not your country, be respectful and they will love you, then the COVID-19 was fake stuff (I mention Agamben and the state of exception at this point), the wife of Macron is trans, then sometimes it gets wilder, like "the world order is changing, now it will be a multipolar world and Jews will lose because Trump got re-elected" (wtf?) and "the teachers' protest is in part controlled by the government".
I mean, it's nothing as bonkers as the slop OP's dad is consuming, not as terrible, but damn, it certainly hits different than talking about politics with Westoids.
That being said, one of the smartest guys I've talked about politics in general is a Serbian old man living abroad, can speak 5 languages fluently, and I have no idea if he read a lot of books or not, but he has the correct takes on everything, including the Yugoslav wars (everybody was in the wrong and NATO sucks), very chill, the kind of guy who is petit bourgeois in practice to make money but knows very well capitalism is unsustainable and wouldn't mind at all if socialism came back, can explain his ideas with simple words without losing nuance, truly someone who have seen some shit and processed it in a manner that is conductive to living a good life, I'm in awe.