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Would you unfriend someone due to political differences?

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FunFan said:
Azuren said:

Oh god... That's... That's just awful D:

 

Seriously, I think you may have blown a speaker with that, dude. Jesus.

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Honesty, if you only allow people who agree with you on most issues to be your friends, it'll be boring.



I think you SHOULD hate anyone who supports trump. You should not support rampant misogyny. You should not support someone who hates so much. you should not support someone who lies so much and so blatantly. You should not support someone who has absolutely no grasp of politics, common sense, courtesy, decency, or the american people.

Donald trump has no respect for America, he has no respect for women, he has no respect for blacks or hispanics or gays or anyone other than white males in the 1%, and if you can't see how obviously he disrespects everything that makes America 'great', then you are a fool. This is not real to him, this is a game; a publicity stunt. This is not a race to the white house, it's reality TV, and if you can't see this, then you are, for lack of a nicer way of saying it, stupid.

If you support Trump in all his comically exaggerated, hyper-ignoramus bombast, then you are an idiot.

Put simply, if you DO support trump, then you are a bad person. If you support trump, you deserve zero respect. If you support trump, you do not deserve my attention or my friendship.

The only reason I say this now instead of giving the proper response of rolling my eyes and walking away is that, if enough idiots are out there who get this moron elected, then I'll have to stay up here in the great white north, as your country goes into shambles. If you let that happen, you are a terrible person, and you are scum.

Hillary or no, I don't care. Donald Trump is figuratively nothing more than an amalgamation of everything wrong with America bunched up and given human form. He's a bad businessman, he's a terrible liar, he's inconsolably stupid, he's hilariously inept, he's comically oblivious, and above all else he is a very clear sociopath. The way he lies so frequently, blatantly, and unrepetantly and doesn't even CARE when he is caught is one of the most obvious tells of a sociopath.

I would rather vote for Vladimir Putin. At least Putin knows shit about politics. He might be a tyrant of epic proportions, but at least he knows his shit. You can't even pretend Trump knows a thing about politics. He doesn't even know economics, since he's bankrupted how many times in the past two decades? He's bad in virtually every way, and short of actual genocide, I can't imagine any way to make this pond scum in the shape of a human any worse.

In summation, it's totally logical to straight up hate anyone who supports trump. Supporting trump is almost a litmus test to check a person's true nature. "Support trump? Must be both stupid and shitty; no other possible explanation unless you're trolling."

Fuck trump. Fuck him in his orange-tinted starfish. if he gets elected, I truly hope someone plants a bullet between his eyes, just like how he insisted his followers should do to Hillary, the bastard.

 

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Hiku said:
FloatingWaffles said:

Anybody who is willing to end a friendship over someone else having a different opinion is probably someone who doesn't have much friends to begin with and probably isn't even worth being friends with. That's just pathetic.

So if one of your friends voted for Adoph Hitler, you'd still be cool with them?

As for me, no I wouldn't be.

Don't think anybody voted specifically for Hitler... that's not how a dictatorship works, you know.



On 2/24/13, MB1025 said:
You know I was always wondering why no one ever used the dollar sign for $ony, but then I realized they have no money so it would be pointless.

Hiku said:
NightDragon83 said:

Don't think anybody voted specifically for Hitler... that's not how a dictatorship works, you know.

He actually got 36,8% of the votes. In spite of losing the presidency, Hitler's Nazi party got enough votes to make them the largest party in the parliament. Hitler was appointed chancelor, and from there he enacted his dictatorship.

So basically, he got in through democracy.

The only reason Hitler "got in" in the first place was by exploiting a loophole that allowed him to become a defacto citizen of Germany by having one of his political buddies on the inside appoint him to a delegate position of the state of Brunswick.  From there he could legally run in the presidential election (which he lost), then he had a couple more of his buddies convince the current president to appoint him as Chancelor, and then he made the rules up as he went along to consolidate power.

Just like Donald Trump is doing now, right??  The comparisons between the two couldn't be any clearer!



On 2/24/13, MB1025 said:
You know I was always wondering why no one ever used the dollar sign for $ony, but then I realized they have no money so it would be pointless.

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robzo100 said:

So, a former colleague of mine posted on Facebook that he wants any friends of his who are Trump supporters to unfriend him.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/americans-are-already-voting-on-facebook-by-unfriending-political-foes-2016-11-05

http://mashable.com/2016/11/05/stop-defriending-trump-supporters/#F7riUGsmcqqB

Those two sources are two of many showing how many other people are following suit.  So...how reasonable is this? Is it moral? Is it practical?

Myself, personally, I know that I can't change (perhaps nudge or persuade to a fraction) the viewpoints of my friends and family. We can't choose family, and in many ways we only choose friends to a small degree. And colleagues? Definitely don't choose those. Between those three groups, all very important groups, how on Earth could it be smart to alienate them even if we disagree with them? And even if it wasn't smart, is it nice??? As you can see I disgree with how my my former colleague went about this. That being said, he is a bigger Hillary fan than me. I'm more in the middle, and only slowly warmed up to Hillary.

So, what's the verdict?

First, this guy is the scum of the earth.  He can do his own damn unfriending. 

On the subject of whether it's ok to "do your own damn unfriending" over politics, I think it depends.  If the stances a person takes on various issues are so repugnant to you that you can't stand to associate with them, I think that's understandable.  But it really seems like that should not be the case most of the time.  I mean, no matter how much you disagree with someone else's stance on an issue, are they evil for it?  Or are they misguided?  Or perhaps they even see something you're missing that you will never find out if you refuse to have a dialogue. 

What bothers me about this is really the trigger:  "supporting Trump".  There are any number of reasons a person might not see Trump as unelectable, and it's often a disagreement about the facts of the accusations against him (or perhaps those against Clinton) rather than them thinking it's okay that he does all the stuff he's accused of.  And maybe they just haven't put that much effort into vetting their chosen candidate.  Is being ignorant a good reason to sever ties with someone?  I would argue:  not if you are trying to participate in politics as a citizen—you should be trying to get them to reduce their ignorance, whether or not they end up agreeing with you about everything. 

For me personally:  fuck that noise.  In fact, just tonight I had a debate about voting system reform (moving away from first-past-the-post) and another about abortion, and I think a real and fruitful exchange of ideas was had, and we not only better understand one another's positions but also are closer to agreement on at least one of them. 



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I choose who I want to be friends with. I don't mind political differences, but if it turns out that one of my friends is a real idiot (which could well be reflected in their political views), I'm not sure I really want to know them anymore. So while technically I guess I wouldn't unfriend anyone due to polital differences, political differences could still be the trigger for unfriending someone.



Runa216 said:
I think you SHOULD hate anyone who supports trump. You should not support rampant misogyny. You should not support someone who hates so much. you should not support someone who lies so much and so blatantly. You should not support someone who has absolutely no grasp of politics, common sense, courtesy, decency, or the american people.

Donald trump has no respect for America, he has no respect for women, he has no respect for blacks or hispanics or gays or anyone other than white males in the 1%, and if you can't see how obviously he disrespects everything that makes America 'great', then you are a fool. This is not real to him, this is a game; a publicity stunt. This is not a race to the white house, it's reality TV, and if you can't see this, then you are, for lack of a nicer way of saying it, stupid.

If you support Trump in all his comically exaggerated, hyper-ignoramus bombast, then you are an idiot.

Put simply, if you DO support trump, then you are a bad person. If you support trump, you deserve zero respect. If you support trump, you do not deserve my attention or my friendship.

The only reason I say this now instead of giving the proper response of rolling my eyes and walking away is that, if enough idiots are out there who get this moron elected, then I'll have to stay up here in the great white north, as your country goes into shambles. If you let that happen, you are a terrible person, and you are scum.

Hillary or no, I don't care. Donald Trump is figuratively nothing more than an amalgamation of everything wrong with America bunched up and given human form. He's a bad businessman, he's a terrible liar, he's inconsolably stupid, he's hilariously inept, he's comically oblivious, and above all else he is a very clear sociopath. The way he lies so frequently, blatantly, and unrepetantly and doesn't even CARE when he is caught is one of the most obvious tells of a sociopath.

I would rather vote for Vladimir Putin. At least Putin knows shit about politics. He might be a tyrant of epic proportions, but at least he knows his shit. You can't even pretend Trump knows a thing about politics. He doesn't even know economics, since he's bankrupted how many times in the past two decades? He's bad in virtually every way, and short of actual genocide, I can't imagine any way to make this pond scum in the shape of a human any worse.

In summation, it's totally logical to straight up hate anyone who supports trump. Supporting trump is almost a litmus test to check a person's true nature. "Support trump? Must be both stupid and shitty; no other possible explanation unless you're trolling."

Fuck trump. Fuck him in his orange-tinted starfish. if he gets elected, I truly hope someone plants a bullet between his eyes, just like how he insisted his followers should do to Hillary, the bastard.

This must be the most ironic comment of the year. Your post contains more pure hatred than anything Trump has said during this campaign, and your views of his supporters are as ignorant as they are rancorous.



Those people are babies who cannot handle confrontation / debate.

The same types who flock to church on Sunday to isolate themselves from anyone who doesn't think identically to them. The weak-minded puerile simpletons who operate in this fashion are not ones with whom I'd wish to align myself.

Is it reasonable? Debatable, to conserve the sanity and peace of mind perhaps. Otherwise, not really.

Is it moral? This is a question of how one ought to be or not to be. Depending on what type of metaethical framework one aligns oneself with it could be considered moral or immoral. As a consequentialist, it seems to me to be counter-productive and bordering on bigoted.



Uh, yeah, no. I am an adult so I talk through my differences with friends. Someone who wants to "unfriend" me because of certain beliefs is no friend at all.