"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.
I don't see that. We can stand here and argue about the Covid jab, but the truth is most people got injected, and most people even put up with lockdowns. Hardly anyone, Left or Right, was entirely anti-lockdown and anti-injection from the beginning. I seriously doubt any of that has hurt him. When it comes to older populations? That issue is doubly so. Older populations were much more in support of injections, masks, and lockdowns because they felt it was a more direct threat to them.
I haven't seen any "opportunism" with the protestors, either. There's literally less than nothing he can do. Any attention he does give them will only agitate the psychos more and promote more violence against the hostages. The more you want to help them, the more they will be abused. If Trump said, "It pains me terribly to see what they've done to these protestors!", the prisoners would start getting executed in their cells just to drive the point home. If the cartel takes your family, you don't tell them you'll do anything to get them back.