Would you stop being friends with someone because of who they voted for?

Personally I think if you let politics get in the way of a friendship you are a bad friend. No matter what side of the spectrum you are on?

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It depends. I would usually say no, but if the friend is a dick about it and doesn't respect anyone's opinion, I would struggle to enjoy being friends with them. But if they just have different political views I would not give a fuck.
 
No. If they were kind of a piece of shit and that was mixed into their political beliefs maybe. But for whi they voted for? Definitely not.
 
14193477:Bened_notnil said:
It depends. I would usually say no, but if the friend is a dick about it and doesn't respect anyone's opinion, I would struggle to enjoy being friends with them. But if they just have different political views I would not give a fuck.

14193478:theabortionator said:
No. If they were kind of a piece of shit and that was mixed into their political beliefs maybe. But for whi they voted for? Definitely not.

True, I could give a fuck who people vote for as long as they are a nice enough person.
 
I find that generally my friends and I tend to fall somewhere similar on the political spectrum.

That doesn't mean we always vote for the same candidate, but we have a lot of the same values. Some are just more important than others to us which leads to the occasional divergence.

Regardless, politics don't come up often. I'd say the past 4 years is an aberration in terms of how often politics came up in conversation.
 
14193480:I_Bohrmann said:
True, I could give a fuck who people vote for as long as they are a nice enough person.

Yeah I feel like for me who they vote for matters less. If they're a shitty person with some really shot beliefs they might vote for a person that I don't like, and for somewhat fucked reasons, but it would be more about them than that vote.

A lot of people are really just good people trying to make the best of it. Trying to stay afloat, feed themselves or their families. Politics is kind of a messy shitshow. It seems like a lot of the time these people don't really represent us.

You're not a bad person if you voted for trump or biden, but there are definitely shitty people on both sides.

I'm really not into the cancel culture let's make a scene people, or the gay and brown people should die go white jesus types. But at least generally it seems like those are the extremes. Unfortunately people are getting pulled farther in those directions.

You can take kids from all around the world that don't speak the same language and throw a soccer ball down, and they're going to have a great time. Adults could hang around and have a few beers at a bbq, play some cornhole or something and shoot the shit.

I think or at least hope that most people are just decent honestly. Maybe the party they support sucks, or maybe they're pulled to the extremes a little bit under stress in these times, but I don't think most people are asshole. There are plenty, but generally I feel like you can have a beer, some fun, and find some common ground with just about anyone. I hate the idea that's pushed that if you're not on my side you're an irredeemable pile of shit. Maybe I'm naive but I don't believe that. I just don't like how everything seems to try to divide us.
 
14193489:theabortionator said:
Yeah I feel like for me who they vote for matters less. If they're a shitty person with some really shot beliefs they might vote for a person that I don't like, and for somewhat fucked reasons, but it would be more about them than that vote.

A lot of people are really just good people trying to make the best of it. Trying to stay afloat, feed themselves or their families. Politics is kind of a messy shitshow. It seems like a lot of the time these people don't really represent us.

You're not a bad person if you voted for trump or biden, but there are definitely shitty people on both sides.

I'm really not into the cancel culture let's make a scene people, or the gay and brown people should die go white jesus types. But at least generally it seems like those are the extremes. Unfortunately people are getting pulled farther in those directions.

You can take kids from all around the world that don't speak the same language and throw a soccer ball down, and they're going to have a great time. Adults could hang around and have a few beers at a bbq, play some cornhole or something and shoot the shit.

I think or at least hope that most people are just decent honestly. Maybe the party they support sucks, or maybe they're pulled to the extremes a little bit under stress in these times, but I don't think most people are asshole. There are plenty, but generally I feel like you can have a beer, some fun, and find some common ground with just about anyone. I hate the idea that's pushed that if you're not on my side you're an irredeemable pile of shit. Maybe I'm naive but I don't believe that. I just don't like how everything seems to try to divide us.

Could not agree more
 
yeah if you support trump at this point it screams volumes of a persons ability to discern right from wrong to put it lightly and that is not someone i want in my life.
 
No. I spend half the year living in the middle of buttfuck nowhere skiing with hicks. If anything they should stop being friends with me because I’m the only Biden voter.
 
If you want to contribute to the further polarization of america, sure go for it and cut off people you don't agree with. You are rarely going to change a stranger's opinion but healthy discussion with friends and people who know your character might get them to see other points of view.
 
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