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Dumping friends over politics or religion
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RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion
(January 22, 2017 at 7:25 pm)CanOfMountainDew Wrote: There's also the fallacy that because one prefers one candidate over the other, that they LOVE the candidate they prefer over the other.

You hear it all the time; "I hate both candidates but I'm choosing the lesser of two evils." People just forget about that when they look at other people.

Not everyone who supported trump over hillary thinks trump is just the greatest thing ever.
I sure as fuck don't.

Not everyone who prefers trump over hillary does so because they're an uneducated racist redneck. And if you don't want to see that I can't help you.

Again, I agree. While I see their vote as necessarily harmful to me, I don't see their vote as purposefully harmful to me. While I see them as mistaken and I disagree with them, that doesn't mean they are an asshat.

Now if they start voting for local measures they have more direct control over that would be harmful to me, I don't think I could ignore that. That's different than voting for a person. There are different levels of voting that you can make different assumptions about.
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Dumping friends over politics or religion - by J a c k - January 21, 2017 at 9:53 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by abaris - January 21, 2017 at 9:55 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by Jesster - January 21, 2017 at 10:01 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by phoenix31 - January 21, 2017 at 10:02 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by Seraphina - January 22, 2017 at 1:44 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by Mermaid - January 21, 2017 at 10:10 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by J a c k - January 21, 2017 at 10:17 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by Minimalist - January 21, 2017 at 10:17 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by Shell B - January 21, 2017 at 10:24 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by J a c k - January 21, 2017 at 10:59 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by phoenix31 - January 21, 2017 at 11:01 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by J a c k - January 21, 2017 at 11:04 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by paulpablo - January 22, 2017 at 12:03 am
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by Aegon - January 22, 2017 at 11:31 am
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by paulpablo - January 22, 2017 at 1:18 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by Shell B - January 22, 2017 at 10:30 am
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by Thal - January 22, 2017 at 2:14 am
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by ignoramus - January 22, 2017 at 4:51 am
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by brewer - January 22, 2017 at 11:35 am
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by J a c k - January 22, 2017 at 2:42 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by Jesster - January 22, 2017 at 3:39 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by Thal - January 22, 2017 at 5:24 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by J a c k - January 22, 2017 at 6:24 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by Mermaid - January 22, 2017 at 5:35 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by abaris - January 22, 2017 at 5:48 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by Thal - January 22, 2017 at 5:51 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by Mermaid - January 22, 2017 at 6:02 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by Jesster - January 22, 2017 at 6:05 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by Jesster - January 22, 2017 at 6:26 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by Thal - January 22, 2017 at 6:08 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by J a c k - January 22, 2017 at 6:37 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by J a c k - January 22, 2017 at 7:08 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by Jesster - January 22, 2017 at 7:09 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by J a c k - January 22, 2017 at 7:10 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by Jesster - January 22, 2017 at 7:20 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by Mermaid - January 23, 2017 at 8:52 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by ignoramus - January 22, 2017 at 7:20 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by J a c k - January 22, 2017 at 7:22 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by Jesster - January 22, 2017 at 7:32 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by Regina - January 23, 2017 at 12:40 am
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by Cecelia - January 23, 2017 at 1:18 am
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by ignoramus - January 23, 2017 at 1:33 am
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by Jackalope - January 23, 2017 at 1:40 am
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by c172 - January 23, 2017 at 1:52 am
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by AceBoogie - January 23, 2017 at 2:02 am
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by Godschild - January 23, 2017 at 6:16 am
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by J a c k - January 23, 2017 at 2:04 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by J a c k - January 23, 2017 at 3:35 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by J a c k - January 23, 2017 at 4:25 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by Amarok - January 23, 2017 at 7:32 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by Jesster - January 23, 2017 at 4:45 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by abaris - January 23, 2017 at 4:51 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by ignoramus - January 23, 2017 at 7:10 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by Thal - January 26, 2017 at 5:56 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by J a c k - January 26, 2017 at 11:41 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by J a c k - January 27, 2017 at 12:25 am
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by Thal - January 28, 2017 at 6:48 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by J a c k - January 28, 2017 at 11:13 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by Jesster - January 26, 2017 at 11:49 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by J a c k - January 27, 2017 at 12:43 am
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by vorlon13 - January 27, 2017 at 2:33 am
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by J a c k - January 27, 2017 at 2:39 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by vorlon13 - January 28, 2017 at 9:55 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by Thal - January 29, 2017 at 12:14 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by Thal - February 1, 2017 at 12:33 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by Thal - February 1, 2017 at 6:06 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by Thal - February 2, 2017 at 12:54 pm
RE: Dumping friends over politics or religion - by Chad32 - February 1, 2017 at 10:27 pm

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