Are you putting all your friends through a political-purity test right now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No because I am not friends with Nazis...

The fact that you make statements like this is quite concerning. Are all blacks criminals? All Jewish people cheap? All women whiny? All men pigs?

That’s your party line, not mine

[Anonymous]

The title reminds me of that creepy daddy daughter dance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. Dumping everyone whose salary is funded by fraudulently stealing my taxes from USAID

Fake news. None of those stories reported out of Musk’s nerd squad are true. You half wit cult member.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think I’m more radical in many ways than some friends and less radical in other ways than other friends.

I enjoy the company of nonreligious, outside the box, joyful expressive people which means I usually end up friends with colorful lefty types. I myself am pretty mainstream.

What I don’t tolerate is mean people. I have found many MAGA types are aggressive and mean and like to troll people either in person or online. So by having standard of kindness and joy, usually I don’t have these people in my life by choice. Conservatives who are happy and not bitter and can refrain from making racist and sexist statements and have pleasant conversations are welcome in my life.

As a centrist liberal, I agree. It's all about are you truly a kind person and treat others well? I haven't found many MAGA that aren't spiteful and deeply insecure.

I’m pp and the MAGA in my life are family members. They are bitter, angry, unpleasant to be around, intolerant of religions other than their brand of evangelical Christian, make fun of any type of work that is not military/blue collar (although they don’t support unions), and although they complain about prices of produce or restaurants or slow service, they blame everything on illegal immigrants (though how exactly one can “root out” the illegal ones without making everyday life for all brown people difficult they can’t answer), and are obsessed to a ridiculous degree about transgender people despite not knowing any in real life.

It becomes hard to have a small talk conversation about anything. “Larla is in her school play” becomes some rant about critical race theory and “Larlo is taking swimming lessons” becomes a rant about trans women in girls’ sports. Discussing a national tragedy like the LA wildfires becomes a rant about Newsom and something about the weather becomes about how climate change is bunk. I am so tired of it and tried to avoid politics but it became impossible so now I just limit my time as much as I can.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think I’m more radical in many ways than some friends and less radical in other ways than other friends.

I enjoy the company of nonreligious, outside the box, joyful expressive people which means I usually end up friends with colorful lefty types. I myself am pretty mainstream.

What I don’t tolerate is mean people. I have found many MAGA types are aggressive and mean and like to troll people either in person or online. So by having standard of kindness and joy, usually I don’t have these people in my life by choice. Conservatives who are happy and not bitter and can refrain from making racist and sexist statements and have pleasant conversations are welcome in my life.

As a centrist liberal, I agree. It's all about are you truly a kind person and treat others well? I haven't found many MAGA that aren't spiteful and deeply insecure.

I’m pp and the MAGA in my life are family members. They are bitter, angry, unpleasant to be around, intolerant of religions other than their brand of evangelical Christian, make fun of any type of work that is not military/blue collar (although they don’t support unions), and although they complain about prices of produce or restaurants or slow service, they blame everything on illegal immigrants (though how exactly one can “root out” the illegal ones without making everyday life for all brown people difficult they can’t answer), and are obsessed to a ridiculous degree about transgender people despite not knowing any in real life.

It becomes hard to have a small talk conversation about anything. “Larla is in her school play” becomes some rant about critical race theory and “Larlo is taking swimming lessons” becomes a rant about trans women in girls’ sports. Discussing a national tragedy like the LA wildfires becomes a rant about Newsom and something about the weather becomes about how climate change is bunk. I am so tired of it and tried to avoid politics but it became impossible so now I just limit my time as much as I can.

JFC, this is literally the politics message board here. I don’t deal with people like they in my life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have removed pro-trump acquaintances on social media because I'm a federal employee and I don't want anyone combing through past posts to find things to report me for. There's not a lot (I rarely post and it's mostly kid related stuff) but there's the occasional post if you go back far enough. None of them are people I was close to though, so that was easy.

The only people in a close orbit that are supporters are my former in laws. I just maintain a cordial distance and don't discuss anything political with them. They've gone down a deep conspiracy hole, so there is no logic or ability to discuss things with them.

It’s too late to do anything about FB. And it’s better to try to keep some relations with Maga.

[Anonymous]

They are frenemies now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They are frenemies now.

So are you

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No need. I’ve never had friends who support fascists.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NO this is not "political purity" unless it is MAGA taking oaths to a con man and his Nazi leader.

No one is an American if they want the constitution to be ignored or gone.

Nobody wants your constitution gone sweetheart! We want to stop paying $50 million for condoms sent to Gaza.

Damn sweetheart, you’re dumb. https://www.factcheck.org/2025/01/trump-administration-makes-unsupported-claim-about-50-million-for-condoms-to-gaza/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think I’m more radical in many ways than some friends and less radical in other ways than other friends.

I enjoy the company of nonreligious, outside the box, joyful expressive people which means I usually end up friends with colorful lefty types. I myself am pretty mainstream.

What I don’t tolerate is mean people. I have found many MAGA types are aggressive and mean and like to troll people either in person or online. So by having standard of kindness and joy, usually I don’t have these people in my life by choice. Conservatives who are happy and not bitter and can refrain from making racist and sexist statements and have pleasant conversations are welcome in my life.

As a centrist liberal, I agree. It's all about are you truly a kind person and treat others well? I haven't found many MAGA that aren't spiteful and deeply insecure.

I’m pp and the MAGA in my life are family members. They are bitter, angry, unpleasant to be around, intolerant of religions other than their brand of evangelical Christian, make fun of any type of work that is not military/blue collar (although they don’t support unions), and although they complain about prices of produce or restaurants or slow service, they blame everything on illegal immigrants (though how exactly one can “root out” the illegal ones without making everyday life for all brown people difficult they can’t answer), and are obsessed to a ridiculous degree about transgender people despite not knowing any in real life.

It becomes hard to have a small talk conversation about anything. “Larla is in her school play” becomes some rant about critical race theory and “Larlo is taking swimming lessons” becomes a rant about trans women in girls’ sports. Discussing a national tragedy like the LA wildfires becomes a rant about Newsom and something about the weather becomes about how climate change is bunk. I am so tired of it and tried to avoid politics but it became impossible so now I just limit my time as much as I can.

I’m surprised they actually work. My MAGA family members are on welfare. They still blame immigrants for an imaginary job those immigrants are taking from them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ask yourself, do you need friends who are so stupid, they believe everything that’s fed to them, like condoms send to Gaza, USAID paid for Clinton’s wedding?

I saw one Maga spreading reels screaming about Pentagon spending millions on sushi, not realising he was quoting Onion like source.

Do you need imbecile friends?

Defending USAID like every penny is well spent makes you look just as dumb, FYI. We all know it’s full of waste.

Sure, like you knew what USAID was a few days ago. Suddenly you all know it’s full of waste. Maga posts are pasted from Trump snippets and AI. We all know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No need. I’ve never had friends who support fascists.

This is the only answer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love President Trump but people: please stop confusing "border" with "boarder." You start to look as dumb as Dems.

Where is the vomit emoji?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The only ones I’m being somewhat polite too are the ones that didn’t vote at all.

It really only would have taken a handful to plug their nose and go lesser evil to not be in this mess.

Sorry but this statement just isn’t true. 1. We live in an electoral college and certain states matter way more than others. Not voting or voting 3rd party in DC is a completely different calculation than say, Ohio.

Secondly, you assume that everyone who sat this one out or didn’t vote for the main 2 candidates would have swung towards Kamala. That’s just not true either. A lot of people I know who are libertarian voted Trump this time around - Kamala was never an option. Many of the third party voters I know haven’t voted for a Republican or democrat in 10-20 years.

Not sure why people continue to blame voters instead of asking why the Dems don’t have a coherent message that would swing people who wouldn’t vote for them to begin with to start voting for them now. That’s on the politician to do their job to do something other than just not be Trump.