| SamuelRSmith said: That's why whenever a woman (or man) tries to talk to me about politics, I always tell them I'm more interested in talking about Kim Kardashian, or some shit. Politics becomes so aggressive in real life that you make more friends feigning ignorance. Even if you and somebody agree on 99.99% of issues, that 0.01% will become the focus, and in most cases there'll be a lot of angst (especially when booze are involved). |
I dunno, that's not really my experience. I mean, if you are a Republican arguing with Democrat friends or vice versa and it's all just a big YES! / NO! / YES! / NO! fest, then I can see how that's not going anywhere and will only result in hardened feelings. But unless someone is a diehard activist type (and those people don't have any friends to begin with) I've found that most people can be shamed into shutting up about their stupider opinions when they're confronted with something that isn't just a Facebook caricature of "the other side's" arguments.
