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Would you unfriend someone due to political differences?

Yes 53 21.54%
 
No 152 61.79%
 
Unsure 41 16.67%
 
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Soundwave said:

I'm ok with being friends with political differences. Not ok with being friends with racists.

Don't want to spend my time around people with negative/toxic views. 

Yeah. Can we stop acting as if Trump is a normal political candidate?

I have friends and family members who vote Republican, Democrat, and Independent. Thanksgiving dinner usually descends into a political free-for-all where my siblings and my parents go at it over social welfare, foreign affairs, and the environment. I love sparring over political questions and hearing new points of view.

But that's not what this election is about. It's about a serious candidate versus a thin-skinned narcissist who has made white nationalism a pillar of his campaign and who can be provoked into a childish temper tantrum by a tweet. 

This is not a Romney or McCain, or even a Bush, who for all his failings honored Hispanic culture and read books voraciously. This is a seriously unstable, intellectually incurious man who uses racism, xenophobia, and misogyny to sell his product, and who has shown unbelievable disrespect for the United States, its allies, and its 240-year-old republican experiment.



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WolfpackN64 said:
fatslob-:O said:

Wow, it doesn't get anymore shallow than this if you align who your adversaries and allies are ... 

I wonder what you're going to do about your friends supporting the idea of "true equality" through the extinction of the current human race in order to create a new unified human race where there's only one skin color, one gender, and what is essentially all human clones of each other ... (Hey you and your friends asked for extreme leftism/equality just to wipe off racism, sexism or what you deem is pollitically incorrect bullshit. Hell political correctness is for suckers if one realizes true communism through genetic engineering.)

None of my friends support such an idea. Wiping people of difference out isn't historically a left thing to do.

No but leftist do support equality plus they do nothing buy keep offering this shitty false hope that somehow they'll be able to eliminate racism or sexual preferences altogether (let alone in their lifetimes) but as long as genetic differences still keep persisting there will be little chance that racism will ever go away so they a once again faced with an option that will bring in true equality instead of trying to fix the current human race where hope is extremely slim ... 



Soundwave said:

I'm ok with being friends with political differences. Not ok with being friends with racists.

Don't want to spend my time around people with negative/toxic views. 

This gets at the heart of the issue. The argument is that Donald is a bigot - maybe true, maybe not - and so therefore supporting him means said person is now a racist. Let's assume Donald is a flat-out racist/sexist. Does that carry over to the supporters?

This seems to be the conclusion drawn from people who unfriend due to political differences.

How do you define the line between the candidate and the supporter?



Democrats acting like children? Surprise surprise :^)



Its interesting to see how hellbent some people are on their own ideas and thoughts being the only ones and that everyone else is practically worthless.

Even if you hate Trump beyond belief, please remember that he has around the same amount of support as Hillary does. Think about this. Are you proposing we kill 40-45% of Americans, to make the country "good" again?

"Supporting Trump means that you're a bad person"
No, that kind of thinking makes you a bad person.
There is a time after the election as well, and people have to live with eachother, despite their different opinions.

You cannot erase different opinions. The mature thing is to (recommended: discuss and explain, then) agree to disagree and move on.



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fatslob-:O said:
WolfpackN64 said:

None of my friends support such an idea. Wiping people of difference out isn't historically a left thing to do.

No but leftist do support equality plus they do nothing buy keep offering this shitty false hope that somehow they'll be able to eliminate racism or sexual preferences altogether (let alone in their lifetimes) but as long as genetic differences still keep persisting there will be little chance that racism will ever go away so they a once again faced with an option that will bring in true equality instead of trying to fix the current human race where hope is extremely slim ... 

Humanity is by it's very nature a social creature. Capitalism forces people to enter into competition with one another and this is a very important cause of racism. I'm not saying racism will one day magically dissapear off the face of the earth, but we should continue to fight it day in and day out. And of course we promote equality, who could oppose that?

And ehh, what leftist group attacks peoples sexual preferences (exept some idiots in the KKE)?



FragilE^ said:
Its interesting to see how hellbent some people are on their own ideas and thoughts being the only ones and that everyone else is practically worthless.

Even if you hate Trump beyond belief, please remember that he has around the same amount of support as Hillary does. Think about this. Are you proposing we kill 40-45% of Americans, to make the country "good" again?

"Supporting Trump means that you're a bad person"
No, that kind of thinking makes you a bad person.
There is a time after the election as well, and people have to live with eachother, despite their different opinions.

You cannot erase different opinions. The mature thing is to (recommended: discuss and explain, then) agree to disagree and move on.

People are free to choose whoever they want to be their friends. 

I wouldn't be friends with someone who is a racist person. 

Why should I? Friends are a time/effort commitment, why should I invest time (which is in the end more valuable than money) on someone who holds views that are toxic/hateful in my eyes? 

It's not worth it. There's a million other people to "friend". 

They can have their opinion, and I can disagree with it. A lot of Republicans are only voting for Trump by holding their nose and doing so as well. The only reason this election is even close is because Hilary is the only candidate in modern political history who is almost as unpopular as Trump is. 

If he was running against a charismatic politican like a Barack Obama or Bill Clinton, he would've gotten completely wrecked in this election. Marco Rubio would've beaten Hilary, but the lunatic fringe of the Republican party went Trump rather than choosing some one reasonable. 



Veknoid_Outcast said: Yeah. Can we stop acting as if Trump is a normal political candidate?

This we can agree on.

So, it would seem from your point of view that unfriending such supporters sends a purposefull message to them. What is the end-goal of unfriending them? To establish that the country is changing and that if they don't change with it then they will be left behind? It's not a bad message, I'm just wondering if that's your end-game.





WolfpackN64 said:
Final-Fan said:

Half the people?  Which country would that be? 

My bad, I switched some demographic numbers around. It should be "asbout as much people" as the USA. Much less spectacular, but I was wrong on this one.

It's the Soviet Union to be clear. (still kind of spectacular since they came from about 23% in the 1930's)

Wikipedia lists the US population as around 325 million and EU population as around 510 million.  Are there some big member states you aren't counting in your claim (excluding both economic output and population)? 



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Final-Fan said:
WolfpackN64 said:

My bad, I switched some demographic numbers around. It should be "asbout as much people" as the USA. Much less spectacular, but I was wrong on this one.

It's the Soviet Union to be clear. (still kind of spectacular since they came from about 23% in the 1930's)

Wikipedia lists the US population as around 325 million and EU population as around 510 million.  Are there some big member states you aren't counting in your claim (excluding both economic output and population)? 

I said the Soviet Union, not the European Union.