Ending Friendships Because Of Politics

The Daily Wire crew discuss the pettiness of ending friendships over politics.

[@MisterZ1P]

"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend." -Thomas Jefferson

[@liamryan7239]

Yonko The irony

[@DeuPKay]

How is that relevant to the comment, dumbass. @Yonko

[@thresh86]

That's a very forward thinking and a good advice provided that there is a mutual respect for each other's beliefs and opinions, especially when they are supported by rational arguments

[@Beffudled]

The politics of Thomas Jefferson's days didn't include things like "do you think it's ok to kill babies" and "it's totally cool if we cease to exist."

[@elias_xp95]

The longer we argue in words. The less time we spend fighting in wars. I may disagree with you and think what you are supporting is immoral but that doesn't mean I will stop engaging with you. If I believe in my own opinions I would also want others to agree. If my friends disagree I will try to persuade them.

[@sirdiddymus1610]

A shame we can't disagree and still be friends anymore. RIP humanity

[@MollyOKami]

Sadly, life is as Foamy the Squirrel said in the video, Social Network of Idiots: "The World is a sphere of bickering jackasses whose own ideas and opinions are more important than basic human civility." :(

[@timothyfloogle]

We can disagree, it takes perspective, but it can be done. If you want to be able to make a point without making an enemy, work at being tactful.

[@elias_xp95]

If you shun your friends they will never be swayed by your opinion.

[@dylanholt9906]

We shouldn't have to "agree or disagree" about politics. We just have to release all restraints on capitalism and none of this matters. The moment I sit down with someone to discuss my rights, I've already lost.

[@knowbullhockey9537]

Sir Diddymus humanity went out the window when people became to lazy to take responsibility for the life they created and sold their souls to abortion!

[@rob379lqz]

I lost about 9 friends 1 year ago due to my speaking up.

[@donf5502]

Yep. I lost half my family and a mass of friends. I actually removed a large group after one called me a nazi, and others supported their claims with likes and smilie faces.... Ugh. Truly has become pathetic

[@rob379lqz]

Don F ... all the best. I’ve been there and others as well. Count your knowledge as “Discernment”. Look up Discernment on The Internets. Peace and high five Don!

[@woosh3683]

@@donf5502 My classmates consistently call me a Nazi because I speak up against Muslim immigrants. Greetings from Greece, the situation in Europe is much worse than what you guys are facing!

[@vuvuzuela2403]

V E G E T A L I’m glad the US isn’t part of the EU

[@vincentkingsdale8334]

Speaking up about what?

[@MollyOKami]

One of my parents' neighbors use to be very nice to me. One day (I was barely 18), she handed me a pamphlet on Gun Control. I politely tried my best to explain to her that I didn't condone what most people called "Control" and that, unless a person is a reasonable threat to others, there was no reason to increase regulations on firearms any more than where thy already were. …She never even so much as looked at me since.

[@johnculz8854]

you are better off without her

[@vincentkingsdale8334]

Tough shit for her.

[@steezli]

From my observations on social media, it has been a one say street : liberals saying things like "If you support Trump, unfriend me". I haven't seen one conservative on my friends list say anything similar.

[@IAmisMaster]

steezli Join the club!

[@bobivenablez]

Read the comments.. there's plenty of conservatives here who find their difference in values to be irreconcilable with friendship

[@meastonjohnston2854]

@@bobivenablez would you unfriend someone who calls you a nazi over and over without evidence.

[@timothyfloogle]

a comedian echoed your point, Zoltan Kazas, video titled streaming the election debates? I'll edit this if I'm wrong

[@timothyfloogle]

it's titled Binge watching the election, and here's the link for free, kzbin.info/www/bejne/h6iXd4SQltZ4eqM

[@devekut2]

Ummm...someone who actively supports policy that is manifestly harmful to me or my family is NOT a friend and won't be treated like one.

[@mysticalseapotato8303]

You can’t lose friends due to politics if you don’t have any friends.

[@srinigypsy]

I see it this way. . I have a friendly nature and do my thing , attract who I attract but I dont collect friends. just interactions.

[@mr.g4272]

I have been speaking up lately. Like little out burst here and there. Family have been noticing my views on things. They don't like my views, but I try to remain center. It's tricky, but we get along ,but also too I tend to try to prove my point at times can get agrumentive.

[@edwardwonghaupepelutivrusk9270]

How is anybody's life worse is a better question

[@bench175]

Well, in California, I had to spend a couple hundred dollars to de-assault my rifles, and now they are less fun to shoot since they look retarded, yet no one is any safer, because criminals will never care about de-assaulting rifles laws.

[@timothyfloogle]

criminals don't care about law, the rule of law, or rules for that matter. gun or otherwise.

[@luispolanco5966]

@@bench175 sorry to hear

[@Dudlers95]

Rep dont think that far thats the problem lol

[@Diggerdog2nd]

I did un follow a lifelong friend because I could no longer stand to keep seeing his socialist post anymore. This is the first time I've ever got pissed off at him ..EVER !! So I did it to save our real friendship we've had since we were teenagers.

[@MikeNapoli1989]

Diggerdog2nd trump didn’t make the left crazy, he just brought it out of him.

[@vincentkingsdale8334]

Funny how many people will never say in person what they say online.

[@Tommy-dz3do]

While both sides certainly do it and it’s sad to see happen, I will say it’s a little more common for someone on the left to disavow close friends and family members over politically differences then the right dose I mean let’s be honest here...

[@jamesfinch14]

Evidence?

[@macrolosses]

Its all relatives when I'm with my dads family i see the right side as cry babies, when I'm with my moms family i see the left side as babies. Both sides are cry babies.

[@sparkonyx1075]

Left leaning people tend to be a bit more emotional that is just a fact.

[@jamesfinch14]

@@sparkonyx1075 facts have evidence , do you have any?

[@phildiamond3627]

Politics is not 'an abstract' - the decisions politicians make have profound and long-lasting affects on all of us.

[@logwind]

He's right. Politics is no reason to lose a friendship.

[@sokit2em]

I have a close friend who is a Bernie supporter, anti-trump, and bought into the Kavanaugh crap. Ive known this guy since high school, and his politics are at the very bottom of the totem pole in terms of importance in our friendship. Politics in general are such a shallow thing to me. If youre a friend with someone just because of their political views then thats not a true friend.

[@Saviourofhaha]

i feel like a lot of reasonable people have their backs up against the wall. you can't say this or that. i've unfollowed everybody, left, right or centre, on social media. i stay on there for professional reasons, but personally i wanna get away. it's just a weird game of validation and unhealthy emotional spikes. it's not a natural way to live your life

[@omnimatt2239]

I don't end friendships due to politics. There's a girl in my life that voted for Hillary Clinton and I'm pretty sure she's a liberal. She even called me a Trumptard one day. But it's ok because I called her friend a libtard. I still love her (we're just friends) and she and I enjoy each other's company. You can have friends of different political leanings. Now, it's completely understandable if you want to end a friendship due to stupidity and unfortunately there's ALOT of stupid people that lean towards the left.

[@OviLVR8]

A lot of people on the right have shunned people because of hysteria. It’s stressful and most people don’t want to deal with it.

[@TheGreatApostate]

Lost a lot of freinds online, family even! and given up some. You can't call me a racist every day and expect to remain buddies.

[@YourFoodBank]

It goes both ways, but the unhinged vitriol from the Left is what has set the stage for this. When you wake up one morning and suddenly find you are every -ist and -ism under the sun, and how flippantly those serious allegations are thrown about, it’s difficult to try to continue those relationships without getting exhausted from walking on eggshells

[@praack4563]

sometimes it hurts too much, when you go over to their house and have to continue listen to the harangues that started in the bush years - you realize they will never be open to discussion , time to cut losses

[@msnewsenior]

You’re not seriously defending the Bush administration?

[@TheKaffeeKlatsch]

I’ve rejected friends with views contrary to my own, when I realized those views consider using coercion/force to achieve their ends.

[@edennis8578]

I don't know any conservatives who unfriended a liberal, but I know liberals who unfriended conservatives. Conservatives are much less likely to cut someone out because conservatives are, by nature, individualistic, whereas liberals are, by nature, groupthink.

[@chrissimon3790]

What happened to accepting people for differences? Every time me and someone disagreed on politics even to the point of yelling like dumbasses we were still cool with each other as we bit knew it wasn’t personal. I guess most people just have too much estrogen in their body😂

[@tonyc.5344]

Thank you, Father GOD, for the help that only you provide. I pray, LORD, we find solace and the ability to get past the feelings of anger and distrust that seems to be plaguing AMERICA. I pray for something positive, LORD, that we can focus on and that better days are yet to come. In Jesus mighty name, Amen.

[@azureocean8]

I have liberal family unfriending me. It's not just coming from the right.

[@haywoodjablomee6671]

I have never seen a right-winger unfriend someone due to their political beliefs but I have seen a shit ton of lefties do it. I’m not saying it doesn’t happen on the right, just saying I’ve never seen or heard of an instance.

[@badassuniverse1040]

Very well said, applause.

[@danleach8266]

Does anybody have a link to this entire interview?

[@MrTcyoung314]

Delete all social media. It’s easy, all but KZbin cause I like videos and it’s not Facebook

[@WaterMusic34]

Ya

[@Hellsichtig]

As a young girl it really helped me! Deleting stupid apps like Instagram was the best thing I could do for myself imo.

[@thischannelisnotmine]

KZbin and Facebook have both become political weapons, all forms of mainstream social media have some form of political control by MSM lol its a bit sad, but that has become the truth of most forms of social media

[@JacketsOnFire]

I feel the same way but with Liberals. I was a former liberal and as soon as I agreed with certain parts of the Trump administration they blew me off. Something I’d never do to them. I don’t have many conservative friends so I can’t comment on the other side but damn, it goes to show how few real friends you actually have and even family members who will turn their backs on you for political reasons they never had until recently.

[@evildoer79]

Friends? I have family members I haven't talked to since Dumbos first election in 08. Don't miss them either.

[@stingray427man]

Quit Facebook about a year ago, best thing I ever did.

[@tonyc.5344]

I ditched Facebook about 6 months ago and I completely agree.

[@sworntoavenge]

My political beliefs are similar to my religious ones, I vehemently disagree with certain people (Including some in the above video), but I don't see the benefit in treating them less than I would have before.

[@billgateskilledmyuncle23]

FB has pitted all of us against each other. Deactivated my account 3 months ago.

[@loriyoung9747]

My problem with my leftist friends and family is they are so willing to go for blood if politics comes up! I choose not to get into it.

[@annidee]

Good point. I’ve come close to this... probably should re-evaluate 😔

[@GermanLibertarian]

Great great point !

[@terrikrystofalski789]

My sister even...truth is hard to bear,..

[@tcofield1967]

It is truly sad that people can't disagree without feeling some sort of personal animosity toward each other. You see it on both sides of the aisle. It is almost turning into a Montegue vs Capulet scenario where association with one or the other instantly paints you as unacceptable to the other side. Politics has always been contentious but the vitriol is almost to pre-Civil War periods where abolitionists and Slavery supporters were willing to engage in violence in pursuit of their goals. I would hate to see a Bloody Kansas scenario occur nationwide, it would be the death knell for our Republic. You can have differing opinions and still respect each other.

[@wallawizardz]

On fb my right-wing friend shared a meme that went “Guess who will still be your friend regardless of who you voted for? * stick figure points at self* That’s called being an adult” On the other hand my leftists friends were basically throwing online hissy fits about Texas being stupid and for Cruz voters to block them 🙄

[@revivedsoul1099]

A friend of 7 years unfriended me because of a political misunderstanding of Russia and Ukraine. i felt pain, disrespect and betrayal. Its sad to see, someone as long as you said, just pass without trying to understand or achieve common ground. As mentioned with what you said with a neighbor, it truly saded me because it means this abstract term politics is more of importance than actually personality and moments. What a sad time and generation.

[@notsafeforchurch]

I can't speak for anyone but myself obviously... But I've recently cut ties with a few friends who very much fit the description of the gentleman with the glasses and navy coat and it was over politics. I don't mind disagreements but when it gets to the point to where its implied that you're racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, islamophobic, or any other bigot labels that seem to be overused in current political discourse because you hold certain political stances, political stances that are very common among many if not most Americans, it's really hard to maintain any sort of relationship. Tell me that I'm not educated enough on the topic at hand, that I'm not placing enough value on certain principles, or anything else. Again I don't mind disagreement. But a horrible bigot? How could that not end a friendship or relationship? Maybe I'm looking at this the wrong way, but I'd rather not be around people who have such a low opinion of me and my political stances. EDIT: Also many people's lives are objectively worse due to politics within the last few years. My parents insurance went up $1,000 (600 to 1600) a month under Obamacare, someone has to pay to subsidize the people who are getting insurance at a much lower rate. My family's insurance didn't go up nearly as much, we're not in the same income bracket as my parents, but still the few hundred extra bucks it did go up was a punch in the gut. So yes, our lives are objectively worse. And no, I never brought that up to any of the friends that I've cut ties with.

[@rickrudd]

Indeed. People can be judgemental. Which is why I only tell my closest friends that I dont wipe, have full blown gonorrhea, and am addicted to Methamphetamine.

[@angrymango42]

I'm so glad you consider me one of your closest friends!

[@rickrudd]

@Nicholas Rickhoff in reverse. The meth led to the clap and now it hurts to wipe.

[@purplezoid1]

Spot on.

[@vifcole]

People act stupid. If you go on Facebook you'll see constant "memes" about this and people going, "sorry, this officially ends our friendship. It's not about different opinions, it's a moral issue!" Problem is, supporting ANY politician is supporting someone who has done immoral things, because all people have done immoral things. Supporting democrats does not make you more moral a person than your friend. Throwing a fit over it is bigotry, and ending friendships over it is just insane and childish.

[@johnculz8854]

I have seen utube clips of people changing states and moving from a blue to a red state, America is so divided

[@chandlermars2502]

We’re all Americans, never forget that.

[@FamedKitten9]

I have no friends. . .I’m a hermit lol And I love it!

[@henrychinaski8686]

Most of my friends are left wing extremists and I fucking love them!

[@georgeofhamilton]

Michael Knowles does not look (to me) like the kind of person to be smoking those huge cigars.

[@TraumaER]

All my friends who are mostly democrats who know I voted for Trump have no issues. It depends on what type of friends you have. If you have friends you chill with and go out and do shit besides rehash CNN bullshit daily, it doesn’t matter who you vote for. If you have friends whose only topic these days is what stupid shit Trump tweeted, then it won’t last long. It’s not about political party. It’s about whether your friends and you have anything actually to talk about. 💯

[@NuNuRokd]

This clip needs to be shared bad. Before it's too late

[@goretex99]

I disagree. I’ve found outside political friends because my Democrat friends are unhinged and uncivil.

[@ianipoo]

That was a pretty good rant

[@raulmendoza3562]

One of my ex friends at worked unfollowed me and unfriended me on Facebook because of politics. He was cool we would talk about sports and cars. He brought up politics and I gave my views. It is what it is now ✌🏼

[@JonatasAdoM]

People don't want to be close to each other. That's why we make friends through the Internet, we get to have a friend that you don't need to have actual contact with.

[@aaronbrown4088]

I shut off the show because that 4th guy in the room was too annoying to listen to.

[@mzk1489]

I married a woman who was the opposite politically (but rational). The issue is - are there more important things?

[@knowbullhockey9537]

It doesn't matter if it's a democrat or Republican a crook is a crook! So happens most of the crooks are deranged democrats but regardless these politicians need to be accountable!

[@ishy6875]

I like how ben is on his computer.

[@tito9694]

As a Mexican Republican i got hate for saying anything about who i was voting for this past week

[@chiuansheng]

I just found they might not my friends at first.

[@user-rr8io7gk1b]

Nobody I know is into politics !

[@vNill]

if it was their decision to end the friendship, then they were never worth it altogether

[@NPC-bn4yq]

I have family like that all they do is post political things. Yea you bet I unfriended them, I don't want to go on Facebooks and see just politics.

[@sealevelbear]

Facebook is bad for life.

[@KKevinnnn]

How can you stay friends with someone who is absolutely clueless and contributing to the downfall of your country

[@reviewtechUSSR1]

Nigga I hope your pacemaker gives out

[@smallhouse4874]

Sadly I think I fall into this category

[@elithegreat6463]

The neighbors Dog is a Democrat, and he doesn’t even shit on my Lawn any more cause I’m for Trump 👍🇺🇸

[@phuckmemma1672]

Yo so true

[@ReCharredSigh]

Some quotes from abraham lincoln: "A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason." "I don't like that man. I must get to know him better."

[@ಇLiv]

I have some mormon relatives that will never speak to me again cause I left.

[@dlghtfl1]

I admit that I abandoned a friendship based on the fact that I found out the person voted for Hussein a second time. I could forgive the first time, but the second time? Sorry. That so-called friend is just too stupid for me to associate with.

[@endorbr]

A snake in the grass is a snake in the grass whether you’ve known them your whole life or only know them from the Internet.

[@LOWBORN-the-LOATHSOME]

Yes, perhaps liberal friends should not be unfriended. Wait instead for them to do that to you.

[@marieharris1230]

I just saw this clip. I notice most comments are from 3 years ago. My oldest, closest friend of 40+ years literally CANCELLED ME out of his life after I posted something on FB THAT HE CALLED. “ dangerous”!,! Suddenly, this man , who usually called me ( we didn’t live close ) 1-2 a week. I’ve been a loyal friend to him for over 40 years. 90% of the time he’d do most of the talking, about his problems, his work, his life. I was always there to listen to him, no matter the day or the hour. After Trump was elected I was influenced by the media to dislike him , like every one else in my family. But, very quickly I began to realize that I was being Brainwashed by CNN and I began to question the Truth. I discovered the evil intentions of the LEFT AND STARTED TO EDUCATE MYSELF ABOUT POLITICS. LONG STORY SHORT, I LEFT THE LEFT. I WAS THOROUGHLY DISGUSTED BY THE MSM LIES AND THEIR OBVIOUS INTENTION TO DESTROY PRESIDENT TRUMP. I BEGAN TO REALLY LISTEN TO WHAT CONSERVATIVES WERE SAYING AND I TOTALLY AGREED WITH THEM MY FRIEND , ON THE OTHER HAND, HAD A SEVERE CASE OF TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME. I DIDNT TALK ABOUT POLITICS VERY MUCH WITH HIM BUT INE DAY I SAID TO HIM THAT I SUPPORTED TRUMPS POLICIES AND I EXPRESSED MY DISGUST WITH THE REPIRTING OUT OF CNN. MY FRIEND WENT INTO A 45 min. RANT ABOUT HOW EVIL TRUMP WAS. EVERY WORD OUT IF HIS MOUTH WAS RIGHT OUT OF CNN. VERBATUM! I didn’t argue with him. There was no point, I simply said, I agreed with his policies and I didn’t support the REPORTS OUT OF CNN. HIS RESPONSE WAS TOTALLY CONDESCENDING AND SANCTIMONIOUS. I WAS TOLD I WAS 100% WRONG AND SOMEDAY I WOULD REALIZE IT. SOME WEEKS AFTER THAT WHEN I POSTED A VIDEO ABOUT COVID THAT DUSAGREED WITH THE LEFT NARRATIVE, HE TEXTED ME AND SUDDENLY, AFTER 40 years, he said we no longer had anything in common, that he WOUKD no longer call me or talk to me. NOTHING COUKD HAVE SHOCKED ME MORE. THIS WAS SOMEONE WHO WAS LIKE FAMILY TO ME. SOMEONE I TRUSTED WITH MY LIFE. SOMEONE I LOVED DEARLY. SOMEONE I HAD A LONG HISTORY WITH. IF MY OWN BROTHER HAD DONE THIS , I COUKD NOT HAVE BEEN MORE SHOCKED. I WAS DEVASTATED. THIS ALSO HAPPENED WHEN I WAS VERY VULNERABLE AND FACING HEART SURGERY. IMDONT KNOW ANY PEOPLE ON THE RIGHT WHO HAVE TREATED A FREIND THIS WAY. LIBERALS WHO HAVE BEEN BRAINWASHED AND HAVE SEVERE TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME ARE THE PEOPLE WHO REACT THIS WAY, FOR THE MOST PART. I HAVE 7;siblings. All but myself and 1 brother are liberals who hated Trump. We DO NOT DISCUSS POLITICS BECAUSE THEY HAVE GASKIGHTED AND SILENCED ME ANY TIME IVE TRIEDTO SHARE ANY OPINION THAT DOES NOT AGREE WITH THEIR LEFTIST IDEOLOGY. I HAVE NEVER BEEN AGGRESSIVE ABOUT MY OPINIONS OR TRIED TO CHANGE THEM. IVE ONLY ADKED TO BE HEARD. THEY ARE INCAPABLE OF LISTENING. ITS A VERY VERY SAD STATE WE ARE IN IN THIS COUNTRY. I BLAME THE MEDIA THE MOST BECAUSE THEY HAVE SPEWED HATRED AND LIES FOR THE PADT 5 YEARS TO AN EXTENT THAT IVE NEVER EXPERIENCED IN MY 73 Years ON THIS EARTH. I HAVE 2 close friends who are Conservatives like me, and 2 other close friends who are Liberals. My 2 LIBERAL FRIENDS , IN THE BEGINNING ALSO TENDED TO GASLIGHT ME BUT OUR FRIENSHIP WAS MORE IMPORTANT, SO WE JUST DINT TALK ABOUT POLITICS. HOWEVER, THEY TOO, ARE SANCTIMONIOUS AND CONDESCENDING ABOUT THEIR VIEWS AND CONSIDER ME 100% wrong, and crazy for not agreeing with them . It’s a terrible feeling to have that between us. Kind of like the ELEPHANT in the room that yu just don’t talk about. I’d love to have a discussion, but I know it’s not possible from the few times I did try. Usually after bringing some issue up, I’d then get a video clip ranting about the Evils of TRUMP. SO AGAIN, I END UP EITHER BEING SILENCED, OR WED END UP FIGHTING. EVERYTHING TERRIBLE THATS HAPPENING IN THIS COUNTRY HAS COME FROM FAR LEFT RADICAL LUBERAL IDEOLOGY. HOW THEY DEFEND THAT IS INCOMPREHENSIBLE TO ME.

[@RevPerdueJosh]

You cannot make a blind mouse become not blind. So, you just walk away to spare you agony. Simple as thatttt.

[@ArgenPolmerica]

Jeremy Boreing is so right

[@rm9308]

I don't mind smokers (well, rich ones who can pay for their own COPD and cancer treatments), but I do mind being made a smoker just for coming to a party.

[@christopherrivera1673]

To Klavan: Nietzsche was not anti-semitic... he called himself an anti-anti-semite, recommended the Germans breed with the Jews, believed a pure race was one that "became" pure (i.e., the breeding of sufficiently qualified individuals in various races with those of complementary characteristics to form a newer, higher race -- his example was people from families of German police/soldiers to be bred with people from families of Jewish intellectuals), and credits the Jews with having given Europe some of its most significant individuals (Jesus, Spinoza, etc.) and argues that while the Jews may be capable of taking over Europe that they only wish to be accepted (and thus why we should help them by removing anti-semites from the country). That a German could be so philosemitic at such a time is remarkable, and you can't condemn him for it any more, probably less, than you can condemn America's founders for slavery (which is, of course, an ancient and unracial institution). Nietzsche was critical of Judaism and he would conflate different races with a kind of provisional character so as to criticize certain tendencies as a guide to individuals. He criticized his friend Paul Ree's work as being too "English" (i.e., moralistic/platitudinous) even though Ree was Jewish. But the harshest criticism he reserved for Germans, the best of whom he believed had become great by becoming "ungerman" or by degermanizing themselves. If he had a criticism of Jews it was in the success of their religious values in the form of Judaism and then Christianity (with a preference for the Old Testament).

[@magnusoptimus2052]

I would conversely ask: When this same 'friend' enables or outright espouses Socialism/Communism and takes direct measures to ensure its success in our nation (with ALL of its subsequent tyranny and death), is considered to continue to be a 'friend' at all? It takes a extremely loose definition of 'friend' to encompass the continued use of the appellation. Thus one's politics DO reflect on one's beliefs and it is the individual that evaluates those held beliefs by others that determine that individual's continued use of the term 'friend' to those in question. I ask: how many 'friends' (not to mention family) were 'unfriended' by those patriots leading up to the Declaration Of Independence? I only see this meme of unending and universal 'friendship' being promoted by those who are the most ardent in remaking America into another tyrannical Socialist/Communist tyranny.

[@ENCwwe]

Does Jeremy wear the same black denim shirt every episode

[@asaking5795]

I just UNFOLLOW people on Facebook who get to political.

[@utsavmanandharz156]

Sounds kinda like a cult

[@midlander8186]

Nonsense! Politics drives governance. When people can slander you as racist or misogynistic or fascistic or Nazi or some combination of these or you are accused of benefitting from some sort of privilege, you are at risk of being oppressed under the law or through government policy. I'm racing to become proficient at something I hope is marketable to evade oppression. Understand, too, that merit, meritocracy, logic, and mathematical and scientific proficiency have all been attacked as unfair by nature, since the percentages of African-Americans, some ethnic groups, and women excelling at or working in these fields do not match the percentages of these groups in the general population. Even proficiency at something marketable might not provide protection from oppression. The prospect of being made a second class citizen is ample reason for me to lose a "friend."

[@nicelady8165]

well, you cant choose your family unfortunately....

[@felixerazo9800]

A decade a ago I would have always reached across the aisle; but not anymore. I live in NJ a solid Blue State. NJ today is now a sanctuary state and pretty much has neutered the Second Amendment. I pay high taxes and deal with over regulation and for what? I’m sorry; but I want nothing to do with an Socialist anti-Second Amendment Democrat. I don’t care if they’re strangers, friends or family. I’m tired of being labeled a racists, homophobe, gun nut, and xenophobe. The best thing that can happen is the nation breaking up into one for Socialist who what open borders and the complete abolishment of the Second Amendment and one that follows the US Constitution and Bill of Rights. I was born and raised in a Democrat controlled city for decades and I now live in western NJ where it’s primarily a Republican controlled county. The differences in schools, quality of life, and economics is staggering. My rant is over.

[@reviewtechUSSR1]

I dunno dude you just sound like a shitty person

[@rredhawk]

It happens when people change religions too, or one becomes religious while the other remains anti-religious. Amos 3:3

[@deplorablepatriot8697]

He is being a bit biased

[@hanna0322]

Most of my neighbors are liberals. We don't talk about politics and we get along very well. I actually love my neighbors. How do I know they are liberals? Hehe it's a long story.

[@HurricaneWind425]

My best friend is a Democrat idgaf

[@ruskibeaner5983]

Ben Shapiro hamburger helper

[@oldgordo61]

I have lost a few schoolmates and a couple of former coworkers because of poltical differences. Some were even christians mainly over Trump. They hated Trump that much even to the point that during the he got COVID and was sick. They were hoping he would get really sick and even die. I have strongly disagreed at times in my dialogue with any of them just pointed where I think they were wrong about Trump and how the media is to blame for fueling the divide still I have never unfriended any of them they unfriended me.

[@amelialeon6732]

Daily wire classic spin. Whatever dude.

[@ErkFX]

It’s fun though, I have a friend who is so far left in his beliefs. He barely worked a day in his life except for the last two years (we’re both 25 now) and he always feels so entitled to everything, and calls all republicans racist. He knows I’m a Christian too. We both grew up really close friends for the last 10 years and our other close friend in the group is black. I mess with my leftist friend every time he says republicans are racist, I say “yea man, I’m the most racist one of all” completely sarcastically and he tries to go around that because he knows I’m not and tries to point something out about other republicans haha

[@theone-swta]

I would unfriend the dude smoking the cigar next to ne.. cough cough.

[@wilburmcbride8096]

This is sad. I had friend growing up that was a Yankees fan and I was an Orioles fan but that didn't stop us from being friends.

[@westtide]

Good lord gave us 2 ears and 1 mouth for a reason. Listen more and stop trying to win arguments. Different point of views are interesting and challenge thought. Through that you may become a strong influence on them by better understanding their view. Approach hot topics gently to keep the guns holstered so to speak. If it escalates then exit the conversation respectfully and gracefully. Practice will make you a respected person and influence to opposing thoughts. Power of the mind not the volume of your voice.

[@Equanox214]

Omg first comment

[@logwind]

Fuck off.

[@GoatDust]

People are acting the way politicians are. Politicians didn’t used to be this nasty with each other. It’s pretty sad. Everybody needs to chill out and realize that most of us are all looking to improve our country and society. Some people are misguided, but intent counts for something.

[@tonyc.5344]

Thank you, Father GOD, for the help that only you provide. I pray, LORD, we find solace and the ability to get past the feelings of anger and distrust that seems to be plaguing AMERICA. I pray for something positive, LORD, that we can focus on and that better days are yet to come. In Jesus mighty name, Amen.