Eh, there were a number of people that I quit listening to entirely (Sam Harris, for instance) because they wouldn't shut the fuck up about Trump. On any topic, it came back to Trump. And the worst thing about it was that it was never an actual, specific criticism -- just Orange Man Bad.
There are also some friends I pretty much stopped hanging out with for the exact same reason. It wasn't because they had different opinions, it was because they wouldn't talk about anything else.
So I wonder how many of those non-Democrats that blocked/unfriended people did so because they were sick of it, not because they couldn't tolerate different views.
That's a completely fair point, because I've largely stopped wanting to hang out with some people I know RL unless I have to. For me it's the mass shootings news cycle, because inevitably they'll spew off the exact same bullshit gun control activist talking points again and again like it's their own opinion when I know for a fact these types of people are going to be looking at the first page of google and pretending they're informed.
Like with Trump there's no actual criticism of policy or any kind of real discussions about the specifics, it's just the usual "Guns bad" NPC scripting and I can't stand listening to it. I'm not even that informed on guns either, I'm British, but even I know so much fucking more than they do but I know they would potentially start getting hostile as fuck if I corrected them on anything.
I bandy about the label social retard quite a bit, but I really do believe that people who use their political beliefs as a weapon almost like that in order to define who their friends are fall within that category. They don't seem to know how to socialise any other way than through forcing people to conform to their beliefs. They form their own cliques with other social retards and that's how we have the situation we've got today. You also quickly discover with a bunch of these people sometimes they actually never really gave a fuck about your presence which is always sad, but lesson learned.
It used be common practice not to talk politics or religion outside of certain situations and friend groups. Leftists specifically rejected this practice because theirs is an ideology of endless strife.
I think that just ended up delaying the inevitable, if you can't be honest with people and be yourself then what's the point in hanging out with them? Everyone was just living a very lengthy lie.
Eh, there were a number of people that I quit listening to entirely (Sam Harris, for instance) because they wouldn't shut the fuck up about Trump. On any topic, it came back to Trump. And the worst thing about it was that it was never an actual, specific criticism -- just Orange Man Bad.
There are also some friends I pretty much stopped hanging out with for the exact same reason. It wasn't because they had different opinions, it was because they wouldn't talk about anything else.
So I wonder how many of those non-Democrats that blocked/unfriended people did so because they were sick of it, not because they couldn't tolerate different views.
That's a completely fair point, because I've largely stopped wanting to hang out with some people I know RL unless I have to. For me it's the mass shootings news cycle, because inevitably they'll spew off the exact same bullshit gun control activist talking points again and again like it's their own opinion when I know for a fact these types of people are going to be looking at the first page of google and pretending they're informed.
Like with Trump there's no actual criticism of policy or any kind of real discussions about the specifics, it's just the usual "Guns bad" NPC scripting and I can't stand listening to it. I'm not even that informed on guns either, I'm British, but even I know so much fucking more than they do but I know they would potentially start getting hostile as fuck if I corrected them on anything.
I bandy about the label social retard quite a bit, but I really do believe that people who use their political beliefs as a weapon almost like that in order to define who their friends are fall within that category. They don't seem to know how to socialise any other way than through forcing people to conform to their beliefs. They form their own cliques with other social retards and that's how we have the situation we've got today. You also quickly discover with a bunch of these people sometimes they actually never really gave a fuck about your presence which is always sad, but lesson learned.
It used be common practice not to talk politics or religion outside of certain situations and friend groups. Leftists specifically rejected this practice because theirs is an ideology of endless strife.
I think that just ended up delaying the inevitable, if you can't be honest with people and be yourself then what's the point in hanging out with them? Everyone was just living a very lengthy lie.