Who here has lost friends due to political differences?

That's the stupidest shit I've read today.

The right is bankers, corporate owners, and other wealthy elite.
They are the ones who prevent pubic health care, even though it would cost us all half as much, because they profit from the current monopolies.

The right tries to lowers taxes for the wealthy, while the left tries to raise the minimum wage.
The right tried to increase drug penalties even though drug users harm no one else.
 
The right is bankers, corporate owners, and other wealthy elite.
They are the ones who prevent pubic health care, even though it would cost us all half as much, because they profit from the current monopolies.

The right tries to lowers taxes for the wealthy, while the left tries to raise the minimum wage.
The right tried to increase drug penalties even though drug users harm no one else.
Yep, keep telling yourself that.

Minimum wage laws are fueling homelessness, new research shows
 
Well, that’s not the case when it comes to men’s groups or men’s social circles, where you have four or five guys hanging out together. Bunch of those guys have conservative leaning beliefs like being against abortion, being strong, masculine. Now there’s left-wing people who do that, but I think that there’s a problem with the left clearly.

It’s about weakness, racism, anti-Christianity. That’s what I see from the left

Christianity was totally leftist originally, about sharing, caring, etc.
But Christianity got taken over by those who wanted to use it for power, and we got things like burning witches, inquisitions, crusades, conquistadors, slavery, etc.

Abortion is not a left or right thing, but just ignorant.
Malthus was not wrong about imminent human extinction at all.
We just delayed his predictions by inventing ways to use fossil fuels to more than quadruple the food production. But we only have about 40 years worth of gas and oil left, so then we will have to drop the population by about 80%.

The law and order people have it all backwards too.
Just like with Prohibition, when you made thing illegal, like drugs, it increases prices, entices more sellers, and results in much more crime and deaths from the cash business that can't use banks or call police.
 

Who here has lost friends due to political differences?​



Not me. I have friends of just about all political persuasions.
 
That's right conservatives, stay in the bubble. Don't pollute your precious mind with thoughts that aren't cult-approved.

Needless to say, you don't see any liberals telling people to cut people off if they don't have the same politics. As is the case every time, moral high ground to the liberals.
Get off your high horse. Typical liberal.
 
Having a core group of friends, especially for guys is a huge part of American society. It is a political thing. Only in the recent times have things like Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Black Lives Matter, LGBT things broken up friendships. This is a relatively new thing. It has happened in the past but today it’s a more serious problem for sure.

I had four really close friends that I’ve known since high school really close with them for 15 years. But Around 2020 with the rise of the Black Lives Matter riots …. those friendships were shaken up.


I’ve lost good friends from my high school years because they are far left wingers.

For example, when the 2020 BLM riots took place. A good friend of mine went to BLM rallies, he supported what they were saying. I was astonished at it completely shocked. We would get into arguments. I would tell him you can’t do this. You’re of Italian heritage like me. You can’t turn your back on your ancestors and call them racist when they weren’t racist when they were honorable people. We would get into arguments. He would call me a racist. It’s the same friend who has been a “stay at home boyfriend” for about 10 years now. His girlfriend goes to work and makes all the money. He’s a disgrace. He’s also a drug user … smoking weed using cocaine various things. if you look on his Facebook page, he has an LGBT flag. He is a different man compared to when I knew him in the high school years and my early 20s.

By the way, here’s the idea for this conversation



Throughout the podcast featuring Andrew Tate and Justin Waller, you get to hear the importance of having good friends around you. Strong minded people who care about honorable traditions. It’s really important for men to have friendships with strong minded men who are drug-free, who work out who respect traditions. If one has weak friends, one will be weak.

If one has strong minded, kind, compassionate, honorable friends, they will retain those values.

I had about four really close friends growing up through high school… I saw one of them about four weeks ago. He’s also a far left wing extremist. He doesn’t wanna listen to things.. he’s unemployed. He smokes a ton of weed. He sits around selling things on eBay, making a fraction of what he made his old job.

The third friend I recently texted a few weeks ago. He supports abortion, infact, one of his girlfriends from 15 years ago or so actually had an abortion. He’s not really that religious. But he still retain some level of Dignity …he works. He just had a child. Of the four close friends I’m talking about here. He’s the only one with a kid. He smokes weed quite a bit I think, sells weed. Of all four of my high school friends this is the one I might retain some level of a relationship with we will see.

And then my fourth friend would always call me when he’s drunk. He seems to have various issues. He smokes a lot of weed. Who knows where this one will go… he lives in Florida and likes Ron DeSantis, which is interesting considering the amount of weed he smokes

And so I have myself as I have told many people on this board was in a terrible car accident about three years ago. I eventually came to the conclusion that I need to work out, be healthy. Be strong get off the weed. I am off weed work out as much as I can. I got all the reasons in the world to give up. But I don’t. And I could change who I am to try and go back to my old friends who support BLM, whi smoke dope , who support waving an LGBT flag and probably who even support waving the flag of Ukraine. There’s no way I’m going to do that. Because I am who I am and I’m a man I can’t change that. I can’t become lesser of a man to fulfill the desires of far left wing extremists, even if they were my close friends in high school.


Btw I do have a few traditional old school friends that I play poker with. I have known these guys for 10 + years. But for the most part they’re much older than me in their 70s including Vietnam veterans. Really great guys to hang out with. But other than Poker I don’t really see them much.



I’m sure many people here can relate their own stories of losing friends because of a difference over Donald Trump or something similar. And these people, my fellow posters many of you might be in a similar position where you’re trying to find new friends meet new acquaintances. And this is again important thing for a man if you wanna be able to find a woman, it helps to have good close, friends guy friends that is with like minded thoughts.

I’m happy to say that I recently I went back to the Islamic school I used to work at (I made a thread about this). I talked with a guy I recognized from my time working at the school. And I realize I can probably get something positive from this. I can start hanging out with this guy and more people from the mosque, who are about traditions, being strong, doing the right things opposing far left wing extremism. And they don’t even necessarily have to be Muslims. I realize that these types of guys they’re black, they’re Arab, some are white but they are all from the “old school” even though we’re in our 20s and 30s. And so with these types of men, we won’t be sitting around smoking dope watching some dumb cartoon movie playing some dumb video game…. will be sitting around like men discussing real topics how to make our lives better how to be stronger. That’s it. Have a nice day folks

And please share your stories if you have them if you lost close friends due to political differences… and what you’re doing to find new friends with like-minded thoughts to make yourself a better person to make those around you better to make your community stronger.

Not me....In fact, it's the opposite.

My frens in the late '90s and early oughts had me pegged as an Alex Jones featured guest, railing against the Fed, endless stupid foreign wars, the socialistic freeloader state, the FBI, CIA, BATF, Patriot Act, DHS, TSA, and all the other trappings of the police/spook state.

Now a lot of them wish that they were Ron Paul supporters.
 
Lost a very good dear friend in 2020 when he refused to admit how corrupt Clinton is and would not look at the evidence.it wasn’t so much that why I broke off my friendship with him it’s the fact that he has this restarted logic there is not one differerent law for politicians than there is fir us,it’s embarrassing to admit I was friends with someone like that,how can anybody possibly be that stupid.even when I brought up examples of the past on the criminal actions of past presidents and asked him why didn’t they go to jail if there is not one differerent law for politicians than us he refused to answer.he has this arrogant attitude he is right and everyone else in the world is wrong,never met anybody in my life that stupid before,hope I never do again.
 
Not me....In fact, it's the opposite.

My frens in the late '90s and early oughts had me pegged as an Alex Jones featured guest, railing against the Fed, endless stupid foreign wars, the socialistic freeloader state, the FBI, CIA, BATF, Patriot Act, DHS, TSA, and all the other trappings of the police/spook state.

Now a lot of them wish that they were Ron Paul supporters.
Lucky you,wish I was in your shoes.
 
Partisan, hardcore ideological politics have essentially become a lifestyle for many. A part of their self worth, their validation, like some kind of ersatz badge of honor. So consuming that they'd give up relationships with family and good friends to maintain it.

What a goddamn shame. The people who have a cynical, vested professional interest in manipulating Americans are winning.
 
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I've only lost a few "Facebook Friends". Which, I must say, amuses me no end. Does anyone take internet spats seriously?

Two of my oldest, dearest friends are Democrats. One for more than 50 years, the other 40 years that I should have married. But, that's a different story.
 
Liberals can be just as intolerant and demanding.
Yup.

The problem is rarely politics, but the personalities of those discussing politics.

I'm neither a liberal nor a conservative, but have friends in both camps.

I also know a bunch of people in both camps who are disgusting; these people are not my friends.
 
All families, tribes, clubs, or any social group of any significance is always leftist
Leftist means being willing to share, caring more about rights than profits, etc.

How can people friends or social when one is only profit motivated?
Good to hear from you, Rigby! :thewave:

I know many generous conservatives AND many generous liberals AND many generous leftists. :)

And also some major scumbags in all three groups. :(
 
The right is bankers, corporate owners, and other wealthy elite.
They are the ones who prevent pubic health care, even though it would cost us all half as much, because they profit from the current monopolies.

The right tries to lowers taxes for the wealthy, while the left tries to raise the minimum wage.
The right tried to increase drug penalties even though drug users harm no one else.
The elite - conservative AND liberal - do this.

Many rank/file conservatives are great people.

And many are scumbags of course.
 

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