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Maybe one recently, I suspect. But that one is kind of a weird situation.
It hasn't been a thing I struggle with significantly, no. Politics have been extremely important to me since I was very young, like very early teens. Because I focused so significantly on understanding history and figuring out my own philosophy on how others should be treated in the world and my own concept of morality and justice, I've specifically chosen friends who have compatible values and views. There have been associates along the way who had different views when I was in high school and a few stragglers here and there, but overwhelmingly, I choose friends who have shared values. I don't really have an interest in being friends with many or almost any conservatives. I currently have one associate who is republican but not a trump supporter. I kind of doubt we will be serious friends. Like many conservatives, she kind of avoids the heavy, controversial things, which are my bread and butter. I dont love to only talk about light hearted things and relationships. It's fun but I dont think a connection like that holds enough depth for me to consider you to be on the same level as my closest friends, who are all more or less politically aligned with me and get in deep into the weeds of difficult topics often. We'll see. But I generally don't make allowance for anyone conservative in my close circle of friends. She would be the exception if we do get there. Doubt it though- she avoids any serious conversation that isn't about relationships and doesn't love to disagree and we disagree on a lot. she's also catholic and im an atheist. I talk about religion a lot more because my family is deeply religious and so are some of my friends. Ill bring up discussions but she just doesn't like to get into it. We've been talking less and less. I dont know if it will last but its fun chatting to her sometimes, for now.
Up until recently I kept my mouth shut about most politics because I dont even like to hear about them myself. I have my views, which differ from most and I generally dont like broadcasting those views. To me it's almost like religion. Like, I respect that you believe in this but dont shove it in my face. Same thing with politics. It wasn't until I saw people all over my Instagram and Facebook talking about how great Joe Biden was, or how this stay at home order is stripping us of our freedom, or anything along those lines that I finally stepped in and said something. First thing, Joe Biden is a creepy baby toucher and no one will change my mind. Him kissing children's necks, covering their mouths while whispering in their ear, rubbing little girls chests right above where there breasts would be, holding on to children and young women who pull away from him and refusing to let them go... he's a fucking predator. Maybe he has never touched a child but he wants to and that is obvious in all the evidence. The fact that people want that for our president, after literally shitting all over Trump for talking sexually about women (who were all of age, I want to point out) is ridiculous. Like yes, let's hate on trump for making comments about women but invite in a pedophile with open arms. Makes a lot of fucking sense. Anyone who votes for him is down right ignorant and condoning a pedophile.
Shit, got off topic. Yeah, due to the above statement I lost a few friends. Once I stated my piece on Joe Biden and told them that this stay at home order truly isn't stripping them of their freedom, they got offended and blocked me. People I have known for years; all because I dont share the same views. But, I mean, last I checked I have never been a follower and I won't start today just to save a friendship that would have failed in the long run anyways. Lost people over the Hillary and Trump election too. Hillary is a crazy bitch and Trump is an idiot.
I haven't yet, but one of my friends does her best to lose her everyone around her. Politics is a plague that I don't ever talk about with anyone. I always try to avoid this topic. Especially now during coronavirus. In my country, people very often get into arguments about politics these days. We can't talk about it, especially with some "blind" people who are able to bite your head off to defend their favourite political party (like the friend of mine I mentioned).
We got a new government during the first weeks of the "corona crisis". Everyone wanted to finally get the previous government away, and now that everyone sees what the new government does to the people, they want the previous one back. So the supporters of the previous gov are blaming the "blind" supporters of the new gov. for giving the country in the hands of a man who acts like he wants the best for the people just can't seem to find the best ways of doing it. Politics are now kind of tearing apart the people. Aah. It's horrible.
They say Slovakia is amongst countries that are handling corona the best way because of a very low death rate. But those are just numbers. People are getting very furious about some gov's actions. But I just sit back, relax and try to clear my mind of everything connected with politics.
Not yet, though its about to get there. I have some family and some friends who are extremely unreasonable and incapable of even grasping the thought that some one could think differently then them. I do disagree with them, but I try to avoid talking about it and when I do I keep it as low key as possible because I know that they would blow up. I find it infuriating because I think people should be able to discuss ideas without being aggressively attacked for it but some people just are not capable of it (and I find I'm getting increasingly tired of keeping a peace that they don't seem to want so I'm starting to slip up).
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No. I have drastically different views on most things my friends believe. I am more conservative while the majority, if not all of them, are more liberal. We don't get into arguments about, I always explain the reasons for why I believe certain things and they respect that luckily. I also respect that everyone has a right to believe what they want to believe and you also can't actually control what you believe. You can be open-minded, but at the end of the day you believe what you believe. I always try to understand their viewpoints, even if it doesn't change mine.
We're human beings and we're never all going to agree on the same things. Its highly unlikely you will ever meet a friend that you 100% share the exact same opinions on everything with. If you only limit being friends with people with your beliefs (and that goes beyond politics and religion- people have varying beliefs on child-raising, marriage, dating or taste in films, books, etc) you won't have many, if any friends.
I've met people before who 'want nothing to do with' people of different political or religious beliefs. That's understandable if that person is always trying to pick fights with you or generally a horrible person, but excluding association of anyone just because of some of their politics or religion is downright immature. You wouldn't be allowed to say that about race or nationality, and I think people can't help their beliefs (as long as they are educated on them).
I think I might have indirectly - I posted my ideas about Trump on facebook and a guy harassed me for 8 hours about how my views were wrong and tried to embarrass me and humiliate me for disagreeing with him - and I told two guys I thought he deserved to go the burning lake of fire for blaspheming God's name by acting like somebody who stands up for human rights is devilish - I believe both guys indirectly or directly rejected my friendship for being so severe in the way I condemned the guy who harassed me online - I also socially excluded people by bad mouthing them and saying they were not real believers in God because they supported evil politicians and some of they were professional clergy or pastors at church who had worked in the church for a decade or more
Friends no, but my hardcore leftist uncle disowned me. Him and his family are the black sheep of an otherwise traditionally conservative family so we've never been close with them. We were reconnecting for a while and I talked to my uncle about life and he wanted to give me a ride on his Harley and whatnot. However, upon realizing my political commitment to the conservative party, the Christian Democrats, he unfriended me on Facebook and cut all communication. He's one those real, "capitalist swine" types, even though he's somewhat of a materialist as well so I don't think he fully knows what he stands for. As a student of political science I do, not that he'd listen. That political temperament are experts at only listening to themselves.
In the end he's only proven that water is thicker than blood for leftists.
I have, mostly because I unfriended them. I was like 14/15 when I had a Boomer-‘Servative phase and unfriended people just for posting Blue Nation Review and Occupy Democrats stuff. Then after a friend introduced me to Libertarianism, I dove straight into that. Nowadays I have more of a “Live and let live” and “eh, people are gonna do whatever their gonna do and I’m in no position to tell them otherwise” kind of attitude. Nowadays I’m friends with people who range from being hardcore Orthodox Christian Palestinians who are big into Tradition and have disdain for Jews, laid back Catholic Conservatives, laid back hippies, Atheist Monarchy-boos, Wehraboos, Rhodie-boos, Provoboos, Anarchists, etc.
You can be the most average, normal, passive, middle-of-the-road conservative in the world, and in this day and age, even people who have known you for decades will look at you and, upon hearing you're a conservative, will see that as a confession to a deep, burning desire to lynch blacks, throw gays from buildings, to see the middle east turned to glass, and to rebuild the world in Hitler's image.
Because all sanity is gone, and people aren't allowed to have different views anymore. Reality has boiled down to people treating it as if there are two choices, and no grey area whatsoever: morally correct, or nazi.
So, yeah. I've lost people. I've lost almost everyone. All because I (spooky voice) LISTEN TO BEN SHAPIRO!!!
Jesus Christ.
Not really, my own views are generally very moderate. Although I disagreed with a US colleague a few years ago, and he is more distant now. He is into this Conservative vs Liberal/left campaigning. I respect his opinion, but at the time noted he used misleading info to support his opinion.
I lost two of my oldest friends because of political views. around 2016 they started talking about Trump and just keep parroting some artic headline that I know was either fake or very misleading because I actually read the thing and well I kept quiet for two years because it wasn't that often. But it got worst and finial I started debunking the stuff they were saying and cameout as a trump supporter and they called me a nazi and blocked me.
It's funny I consider myself neither a conservative nor a liberal. But get labeled as both by my Dumicrat and Reduhblican mates. I just laugh it off. I don't think I've ever de-friended someone for their views unless they thought Rush Limbaugh was a messiah.
I’m a liberal moderate, and I’m so balanced in understanding different political views that I’ve never had a rift in my friendships.
I have friends all over the political spectrum, and I get along with all of them (even if we agree to disagree).
No.
I also dont talk too much about that anyway.
I do know many of my friends and i have similar views and have many different views too but
because i know neither one of us have much control or say in any of it.
Make no sense to fuss about it and ruin friendships over it.
No, I haven’t. And, I am very strongly opinionated, politically. I think, as long as you can articulate your views respectfully, it really shouldn’t be an issue. I don’t think you should be all too afraid of losing friends over your political views. I haven’t heard of that happening to anyone, and, in my opinion, anyone who would drop a friend over their political views is a shit person anyway.
I've seen a lot of them invite the situation on themselves. And then, I just state a few facts... and they start breaking out in hives, and resorting to threats, insults, and mass hysteria.
For example: one girl asking for feedback about that one dude in a dress at an awards show. And I merely said: "I'm gonna go with Deuternomy 22:5 on this one." She lost her everloving mind.
I pretty much keep mine to myself as well. I personally haven't lost friends over it, but I have two friends who got into a huge blowup and have hated each other since over it. One of them was always trying to shove his views down everyone's throats, including mine, and the other one started doing it back to him, and then they got into a huge fight over it and blocked each other on social media.
Politics over the last 8 years has brought out the very worst in people in the US. As a result, I too decline the opportunity to voice my political views with people who may have opposing views. Because these days, a lot of people don't have political discussions with the intent on finding common ground, they debate simply to win. Thus, it isn't worth discussing politics with people you like but don't aren't sure could have the conversation maturely.
No, not really. I have cut out people from my life that I am not particulary compatible with quite a while ago and the friends I have right now are all capable to have discussions - including political ones - that remain respectful despite different views.
Yes. Actually I didn't have a problem with his political opinions, but he didn't like the comment I wrote critiquing a video he shared and he completely blocked me. So, I'm not friends with him anymore and it was his choice! He couldn't handle having a friend of 2 years write a comment with a different point of view, so he gave me the Axe.
No I try to keep my disagreements with my friends civil. A lot of my friends are Conservative leaning and some even support Trump, while I'm a person who's moderately Liberal and typically in opposition to Trump but we don't let it get in the way of our friendships. As long as they're not Nazis or Communists supporting NK, PRC, or Stalin then I can make do with a disagreement.
I usually try to avoid talking about politics because it creates animosity. Usually when I do talk about politics with my friends it's because we mostly agree with each other, we talk about politics sometimes at the Dojo because we're all moderate Trump supporters.
I cut people loose because of what they perceived as political views, when actually it was just them siding with evil. I won't abide evil in my territory. Feminazi dirt. Religious filth. Vrgans who can't shut up. Libtard self-victimizers. Cuntservative primitive inbred morons. It's illegal to exterminate them but there are many legal ways to hurt.
Religion amd politics i keep to myself unless I find a person who is logical and allows me without judgment or anger or bad debate then ill share my opinion but opinions are like assboles at times everyone's got one and they all stink lmao but its our human right
I try to keep friends separate when they have disparate political views.
One good friend has a Political Science degree from Berkeley and thinks no one needs to make more than a million dollars a year. Another is a fanatical follower of Rush Limbaugh.
Should we all get together for a beer?
Nah. Polysci minor here. The only friends you lose over politics were never friends worth keeping. If politics are used as an identiy then their politics are unhealthy. The best politcs are discussions where you can agree and respect on differing opinions based on policies - not cognitive dissonance and mascotting.
I have lost friends over this. I try to be more open minded than I was but it's really hard sometimes. There's one girl in particular that I'm friends with but her views make me embarrassed to be associated with her.
Yes, yes I did. It was some time ago. She didn't like it when I called antifa faggots. So she removed me from the only form of contact we had. Some time later she wanted to befriend me again, but too much time had passed.
Political views differ but never leads to loosing someone. If everyone had the same view, we would live in a world of one choice.
That honestly sounds like the most boring world imaginable
No.
My political views, all politicians there for money not for their electors, whatever they tell you they are they just following what their Muppeteer tells them.
To make it short, all politicians useless and should be replaced by AI only one question, who will create program for this, one think it will be much cheaper then paying for so many useless Muppets.
Yes and I don’t care. It just shows their character. I had a friend who supported what China was doing torturing others and he said it was fake. How can I pretend to be friends with someone like that? We need to go by our values and morals. I get being understanding and open minded which is fine but there is an extent.
Well, in a way yes, I lost quite some friends due to political beliefs.. or rather political idealism. In politics, religion, nationality, everything where factions are established, I'm just saying I'm none of those and I keep to myself. Politics and all that can bring much trouble and sorrow with it..
Me and my friends don't have any affiliation with a particular party we vote for who we think only lied a little we basically look for the best of the shit heap because that's all politics is
What friends? Lol. But yes that would probably happen. I am set in my views and havw strong morals if they didn't like them well they wouldn't be my friend.
no. i have probably voiced my opinions too loudly in the passed about it and made my friends not want to bring up the topics but i learnt from my mistakes
Yea i like disagree with a majority of views of people i end up befriending or dating. Even my fam and i dont think alike 🤦♀️ Its best i keep my views to myself
There are people who's presence I wish much less to be around because of that.
I won't "de-friend" them, so to speak, but I don't generally foster interaction with them.
Don't recall anyone unfriending me for difference in political views.
As for whether I'd unfriend someone for having different political views, I'd say not. Being the misanthrope I am, I think humanity in general - Democrat, Republican, white, black, man, woman, straight, gay, Christian, atheist, Jew, Muslim - is the scum of the earth.
u If disagreeing on politics is all it takes to end a friendship, then it wasn't a friendship to begin with. At least not in a serious way.
It was not because of there political views. It was because they would make every little thing about politics. it got old very fast
No I don't.
If they couldnt handle hearing my opinion they wouldn't be my friend
Nope. My closest friend of mine has completely opposite views from me.
We just have a discussion about it with beer, always listening to each other's points and not getting emotional over it.
Honestly, my beliefs are pretty typical around my social groups so I don't really have to suppress myself. And I tend to lose a lot of respect for people who have certain views.
Most of my friends have similar political views as I do. I wouldn’t be friends with someone with polar opposite political beliefs.
No. My friends whether on the right, middle, or left, are not snowflakes. They all know that I am for a severely limited government, and I know what they believe. We are adults and are capable of disagreeing and still loving each other.
I would not be friends with libtards. I mainly shoot guns, read the bible, work on motorcycles while my girl cooks and cleans and talk shit about tranny fags. So if they dont do that stuff we won't have anything in common.
I’ve lost friends over everything so it doesn’t matter
Nope. It didn't matter which side of the spectrum. I just stopped giving a shit about politics. Lost friends regardless which side they were on.
Nah, i dont talk about politics and if it does get around to that topic somehow and i know we have differing views im quick to just end that topic right then and there.
I have no political beliefs, so there isn't even a topic or even a situation where wedt fight about politics.
Whenever the others discuss politics, I quietly slip into reading a book.
Nope, never. I even have friends on all sides. Heck, my ex-girlfriend was of a different political party. We talked and it more enlightened her than was it ever an argument.
going downhill since I was an Obama fan. To be honest, if you are going to be petty in who I believe in and support, then you really werent a friend since you chose to drink Koolaid Orange or eat creme of sum dum gai, (Hannity, Limbaugh)
I basically lost 90% of them because of my biblical foundationalism and ethics.
Nah, politics in my country are not so divisive to me.
The ones that talk politics i call them (people i know) . My friends don't talk politics.
Yea I left them, or just never became friends with them to begin with.
I have friends who disagree with me on politics and we argue about it all the time. Doesn't mean I like them any less, they just don't think the same way I do about that paticular subject
Yes, I'm an anarchist, and lost a couple friends due to those views. weirdly enough, it was my more centrist friends, not really the right wingers I'd have expected
I never discuss politics with friends and I never share my political views, not even with my family. I lost friends because of not sharing my political views, believe it or not.
You cannot lose friends over politics when you don't have any
I've lost all friends over nothing just because one friend decided they didn't like me they all sided with them because of my ethnic origin so political views? Wouldn't surprise me.
I can’t be friends with people with so different political views for the first place. If i feel that i just never talk about politics at all and stay a bit distant
Politics is the best way to see if your friends are really your friends.
First of all we don't talk politics
And secondly I don't have friends.
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