"I'm a half-Asian that grew up in a solid red area and I never thought about race until high school so idk what the director of Elemental is talking about" Silence
"Max Landis seems like a jerk but the accusations against him don't meet the definition of rape" This resulted in a girl getting extremely pissed off so I had to make peace for 15 minutes
"Hunter Biden is obviously laundering money through the painting hobby he started last week" Tepid agreement
"Male and female characters obviously behave differently and you can't just swap them into each other's stories" "Hahaaa I don't know, I just like this character doing her thing"
"Obviously cancel culture exist, we wouldn't be able to have any frank conversations if they were publicized to millions of people" "Yeah fair point" Silence
"If that female pastor is ordained, that's illegal according to church rules" Crossed arms staring at the ceiling
Before a few years ago, I've never had the problem of being too obviously right in political discussions. That's because I used to cling to dumb ideas myself, like the Iraq invasion, but at least I had a little wriggle room (democracy is a good thing for the Middle East! just give it time!). There are too many positions on the left today that are indefensible if you're not a psychopath. I guess I'm thankful my lib friends are still genuine friends and retain a shred of integrity.
That's a really impressive list actually. I gave you some heat this week but apparently you're more reasonable in real life than on this board. I would guess they also bring up politics from time to time because there's no way you could've gained ground on all those issues if you were the only one talking about them.
Because they're Asians I'd also guess that most of them have fairly traditional parents who might vote Democrat, but at least grounded their psyches in reality enough that they can't get full blown brain rot.
The friend group I'm talking about used to have more political conversations, but that was before Biden got really demented. Now we just talk about pop culture stuff as if this was 2012 and politics is a sideshow. I think there's a certain level of embarrassment there. The closest we get is discussions of fictional characters and how movies and TV are sliding down into decadent hell, and while they get uncomfortable about anything that touches on race-swapping, nobody champions diversity.
Also one guy that served as sort of a realist conduit disappeared behind the Great Firewall of China. I hope nobody found VPN on his computer or something.
Interesting, do they acknowledge the virus was engineered?