Something I've noticed about the way leftists argue is they often don't even try to prove you wrong. They just act like the mere fact that you're saying something they disagree with is a fault in and of itself, as if you disagreeing with them makes you wrong by definition.

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Anonymous wrote:You can disagree with some opinions that people have but still have other things in common. We aren’t clones.

No those opinions are anti American

Honestly, you people are nuts.

You’re in a cult and don’t understand or care about the constitution

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Anonymous wrote:You can disagree with some opinions that people have but still have other things in common. We aren’t clones.

No those opinions are anti American

Honestly, you people are nuts.

Anonymous wrote:Serves you right?

That you were bamboozled that his thoughts were Wrong Think?

The man died. He clearly made a positive impact on the world but you are centering YOURSELF. You have a little pity party and spitefully choose to withhold goodwill. And then post about it online. Wow

This line of thinking is why children never turned their fathers in when they’re being molested

Anonymous wrote:I found out a longtime poster on another online forum site I use died. I looked for an obituary online, easy because he had a smallish home town. He had been helpful and I wanted to send condolences.
Well, found his social media and turns out he promoted politics and legislation that I really dislike or would oppose. Sorry I snooped. Serves me right I guess.
No obit yet but will send condolences.

This happened to me a few years ago, and I was shocked to find that the offline person was NOTHING like he'd pretended to be online - not married, no kids, not financially successful, etc. He'd engaged in a lot of judgments of others from the position of presenting himself as the whole package of high achievement, so it was a mind bender for me to realize he'd been lying for what amounted to decades to this group of folks who'd been posting online together.

I'm one of those persistently naive folks who tells the truth and means what she says, and expects the same from others but has been repeatedly kicked in the teeth by the reality that so many people aren't earnest and honest. In the end, it just makes me sad to think that somebody has whatever going on in their brain that makes them feel compelled to create a false persona online - and isn't it hard to keep track of all the lies???

Anonymous wrote:You can disagree with some opinions that people have but still have other things in common. We aren’t clones.

We can have things in common, but when I find out you support child molestation… yeah those things we have in common no longer matter.

Anonymous wrote:You can disagree with some opinions that people have but still have other things in common. We aren’t clones.

No those opinions are anti American

Serves you right?

That you were bamboozled that his thoughts were Wrong Think?

The man died. He clearly made a positive impact on the world but you are centering YOURSELF. You have a little pity party and spitefully choose to withhold goodwill. And then post about it online. Wow

Anonymous wrote:I found out a longtime poster on another online forum site I use died. I looked for an obituary online, easy because he had a smallish home town. He had been helpful and I wanted to send condolences.
Well, found his social media and turns out he promoted politics and legislation that I really dislike or would oppose. Sorry I snooped. Serves me right I guess.
No obit yet but will send condolences.

I don’t understand people like you. He helped you and you had a relationship with him that was good, since the two of you didn’t discuss politics and legislation. Now you find out you disagreed. So what? That didn’t change how he treated you.

I hate Trump and his crew. Do I have friends that work in his administration? Yes. Why? Because not everyone in his administration agrees with him, and some people are there because they want to help keep the train from derailing. Shocking, I know.

This is a good reminder that people who have different political beliefs aren't necessarily evil. You can have differences of opinion and still get along and respect each other. Maybe even be friends.

Maybe remember this person next time you meet someone of a different set of beliefs (political, religious, whatever) and are tempted to write them off completely.

Why let politics, that he never discussed, have any bearing whatsoever on your memory of him. I hate Trump, but my friends aren’t required to agree with me.

OP, what exactly are you trying to say here? You've revealed your stripes as a militantly intolerant person.

There's plenty of data out there showing the progressive left is much more intolerant than anyone else on the right, much more likely to cut off people they don't agree with. And also much more likely to report mental health problems. It does make you think.

I am sorry real life doesn't match up to the narrative you have created in your mind. Good, nice, kind people come with all opinions and behavior. As do nasty people. It is your choice to turn this into a form of disappointment.

Never Meet Your Heroes.

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Anonymous wrote:Before COVID, I was a militant liberal. With all the COVID differences of opinions, I’ve worked really hard on being more open minded and accepting towards differences. It’s been a hard journey. I’m still a liberal but no longer militant. I can have relationships with people who think differently. It can still be hard and I do have my limits but I’m so much better than I was before.

I think realizing that someone you respect and generally like also has different thoughts than you about other things isn’t a bad thing. Recognize where you did align and focus on that.

OP again. Odd thing, covid made me become just the opposite. Maybe because we personally were the "vulnerable" people.

Same, OP. I've cut people out of my life who have shown me who they are. Life's too short, as we see in your OP, to tolerate hateful people or people who support or voted for or secretly support hateful people.
There are lots of threads on this.

Anonymous wrote:Before COVID, I was a militant liberal. With all the COVID differences of opinions, I’ve worked really hard on being more open minded and accepting towards differences. It’s been a hard journey. I’m still a liberal but no longer militant. I can have relationships with people who think differently. It can still be hard and I do have my limits but I’m so much better than I was before.

I think realizing that someone you respect and generally like also has different thoughts than you about other things isn’t a bad thing. Recognize where you did align and focus on that.

OP again. Odd thing, covid made me become just the opposite. Maybe because we personally were the "vulnerable" people.