OT: Anyone lose a friend over a political disagreement?

cawacko

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Or I could also ask would anyone here choose to not be friends with someone because you share different political beliefs? As for the title I've never lost a friend over politics (though I've heard other people say they have). In fact I don't discuss politics that much with friends. I ask this question because I had a long time buddy post this on Facebook today:

"If you're voting for Mitt and his racist, sexist, idiot little hand puppet, I'm not sure we can be friends anymore. I think it's best if we just go our separate ways."

Pretty blunt and straight forward. I'm not asking this from a left-wing or right-wing perspective I'm just curious how many people think they would post something like this on Facebook or that politics is too personal or important that you couldn't be friends with someone you are not in agreement with?
 
imo, if people take politics that seriously, they aren't valuable as friends.

outside of JPP, i don't discuss politics much, nor do i engage in insult fests like i do on JPP.

that said, my best friend in HS disagreed with me over politics. i had friends in college who disagreed with me. i have never lost a single friend over a political disagreement. now....it is probably true that i may have not become friends with the hypothetical person, but i never lost a friend over politics. politics is not that important in my life and apparently my friend's life as well.
 
I've had people unfriend me on facebook because of my support of gay marriage. I wouldn't call them friends of mine, but we went to school together (and with one I dated his wife before he did).

I'm not a hardcore political type on FB. But I do post occasionally on topics that matter to me. Most of my friends know these are things I believe in. If they disagree we tend to stay away from those topics when we talk.

Actually I have been ridiculed more than argued with on political topics on FB. But most of those have been from my reposting things from Soc about Gary Johnson and the Libertarian Party.
 
If I knew the person that would make a statement like that...I'd have to agree with him.....

A person believing such a stupid, radical, lie like that would not be a friend of mine.....

Thats character assassination at its best, of a person he doesn't know any more about that nuclear physics or brain surgery....hes a moron just by virtue of
making such an accusation.......typical left-wing.....

Liberals won’t hesitate to smear their opponents, even if the attacks are unfounded.
They are master of character assassination........

1. Robert Bork: When President Reagan nominated Robert Bork to the Supreme Court, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy led the charge to defeat the brilliant jurist by any means necessary. Kennedy went to the Senate floor with this fanciful smear: “Robert Bork’s America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens’ doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the government.”

2. Sarah Palin: The Left is so obsessed with the former Alaska governor that a new disorder—the Palin Derangement Syndrome—has been termed. While the media forgot to vet the 2008 Democratic presidential nominee, news organizations sent teams of reporters to Alaska when e-mails from her administration were released years after Palin's term was over. From questioning her child’s birth to moving in next door in Wasilla, the liberal mainstream gets frenzied at the mere mention of her name.

3. Dick Cheney: The Left’s hatred of Vice President Dick Cheney reached epic proportions by the end of his eight years in office. He was portrayed as “Darth Vader” and supposedly led the U.S. into war against Iraq to help his buddies at Halliburton. There were calls for his impeachment and death. Liberal talk radio host Mike Malloy suggested that Cheney’s daughter should “do one thing with your useless life that will have some meaning. Go plan your father’s funeral.”

4. Clarence Thomas: Clarence Thomas endured a “high-tech lynching” when liberal groups used Anita Hill’s sexual harassment charges to try to stop his ascent to the Supreme Court. As Thomas said at his1992 confirmation hearing, “This is a circus. It's a national disgrace. And from my standpoint, as a black American, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves. … You will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the U.S. Senate rather than hung from a tree.”

5. Tea Party: Ever since the Tea Party movement burst onto the national scene in 2009 in opposition to President Obama’s Big Government agenda, it has been vilified by the Left. Liberal commentators and public officials have slurred the group, using a vulgar term to characterize it, saying it was full of racists, comparing it to terrorists, and likening it to the Taliban.

6. George W. Bush: The Left never forgave George Bush for defeating the sainted Albert Arnold Gore Jr. in the 2000 contested election, and spent the next eight years (with a slight respite following 9/11) trying to smear the President. He was characterized as a dimwit led by Dick Cheney, Karl Rove or the neo-conservatives. Lefties chanted, “Bush lied, people died.” Dan Rather pushed forged Air National Guard records. Movies were made about his assassination.

7. Ronald Reagan: While liberals now grudgingly acknowledge that President Reagan was a transformative leader, during his administration he was alternatively derided as a dangerous extremist or a lightweight “amiable dunce.” The Gipper deftly ignored their yapping and took his message of liberty and economic freedom directly to the American people.

8. Religious right: The Washington Post in 1993 described Christian evangelicals as “poor, uneducated and easy to command,” and the rare time there is violence at an abortion clinic, the entire pro-life movement is characterized as wild-eyed extremists. No demographic segment in America is as routinely mocked by the liberal media as conservative Christians.

9. Newt Gingrich: Even before Republicans took back the House in 1994, Newt Gingrich was called a backbench bomb-thrower by the liberal media, and when he began to implement the Contract with America, the personal attacks accelerated. As he launched his current run for President, the media was more concerned about his Tiffany's bill and staffing issues than his policy agenda.

10. Herman Cain: aka, Uncle Tom.... Just as the former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza rose in the polls, Politico launched its hit job on Herman Cain with charges of an unstated nature from unnamed sources, all from more than a decade ago. Whoever ultimately wins the nod, expect the Left to drop a pile of slime on the 2012 GOP contender for President.

11. And now its Mitt Romney....
a. Mitt Romney may be felon ?
b. Independent fact checkers confirmed multiple times, Gov. Romney left Bain Capital in February of 1999 to run the Olympics and had no input on investments or management of companies after that point.”(But not according to the Dems)
c. Romney paid no taxes ?
d. A failure as Governor of MA ?
e. Romney responsible for women death from cancer ?
f. Romney responsible for GST Steel closing?, 2 years after he left the company ?
 
If I knew the person that would make a statement like that...I'd have to agree with him.....

A person believing such a stupid, radical, lie like that would not be a friend of mine.....

Thats character assassination at its best, of a person he doesn't know any more about that nuclear physics or brain surgery....hes a moron just by virtue of
making such an accusation.......typical left-wing.....

Liberals won’t hesitate to smear their opponents, even if the attacks are unfounded.
They are master of character assassination........

1. Robert Bork: When President Reagan nominated Robert Bork to the Supreme Court, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy led the charge to defeat the brilliant jurist by any means necessary. Kennedy went to the Senate floor with this fanciful smear: “Robert Bork’s America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens’ doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the government.”

2. Sarah Palin: The Left is so obsessed with the former Alaska governor that a new disorder—the Palin Derangement Syndrome—has been termed. While the media forgot to vet the 2008 Democratic presidential nominee, news organizations sent teams of reporters to Alaska when e-mails from her administration were released years after Palin's term was over. From questioning her child’s birth to moving in next door in Wasilla, the liberal mainstream gets frenzied at the mere mention of her name.

3. Dick Cheney: The Left’s hatred of Vice President Dick Cheney reached epic proportions by the end of his eight years in office. He was portrayed as “Darth Vader” and supposedly led the U.S. into war against Iraq to help his buddies at Halliburton. There were calls for his impeachment and death. Liberal talk radio host Mike Malloy suggested that Cheney’s daughter should “do one thing with your useless life that will have some meaning. Go plan your father’s funeral.”

4. Clarence Thomas: Clarence Thomas endured a “high-tech lynching” when liberal groups used Anita Hill’s sexual harassment charges to try to stop his ascent to the Supreme Court. As Thomas said at his1992 confirmation hearing, “This is a circus. It's a national disgrace. And from my standpoint, as a black American, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves. … You will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the U.S. Senate rather than hung from a tree.”

5. Tea Party: Ever since the Tea Party movement burst onto the national scene in 2009 in opposition to President Obama’s Big Government agenda, it has been vilified by the Left. Liberal commentators and public officials have slurred the group, using a vulgar term to characterize it, saying it was full of racists, comparing it to terrorists, and likening it to the Taliban.

6. George W. Bush: The Left never forgave George Bush for defeating the sainted Albert Arnold Gore Jr. in the 2000 contested election, and spent the next eight years (with a slight respite following 9/11) trying to smear the President. He was characterized as a dimwit led by Dick Cheney, Karl Rove or the neo-conservatives. Lefties chanted, “Bush lied, people died.” Dan Rather pushed forged Air National Guard records. Movies were made about his assassination.

7. Ronald Reagan: While liberals now grudgingly acknowledge that President Reagan was a transformative leader, during his administration he was alternatively derided as a dangerous extremist or a lightweight “amiable dunce.” The Gipper deftly ignored their yapping and took his message of liberty and economic freedom directly to the American people.

8. Religious right: The Washington Post in 1993 described Christian evangelicals as “poor, uneducated and easy to command,” and the rare time there is violence at an abortion clinic, the entire pro-life movement is characterized as wild-eyed extremists. No demographic segment in America is as routinely mocked by the liberal media as conservative Christians.

9. Newt Gingrich: Even before Republicans took back the House in 1994, Newt Gingrich was called a backbench bomb-thrower by the liberal media, and when he began to implement the Contract with America, the personal attacks accelerated. As he launched his current run for President, the media was more concerned about his Tiffany's bill and staffing issues than his policy agenda.

10. Herman Cain: aka, Uncle Tom.... Just as the former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza rose in the polls, Politico launched its hit job on Herman Cain with charges of an unstated nature from unnamed sources, all from more than a decade ago. Whoever ultimately wins the nod, expect the Left to drop a pile of slime on the 2012 GOP contender for President.

11. And now its Mitt Romney....
a. Mitt Romney may be felon ?
b. Independent fact checkers confirmed multiple times, Gov. Romney left Bain Capital in February of 1999 to run the Olympics and had no input on investments or management of companies after that point.”(But not according to the Dems)
c. Romney paid no taxes ?
d. A failure as Governor of MA ?
e. Romney responsible for women death from cancer ?
f. Romney responsible for GST Steel closing?, 2 years after he left the company ?

That does it. Bravo. You and I are no longer friends.
 
I have taken people off my Facebook because I don't want politics to interfere with our friendship and I have a group of friends that talk politics on fb and we have become quite close, so I don't want to lose that connection. My brother tried to have a discussion about religion and after advising him several times that fb wasn't the place for it, I blocked him. I try not to take things personally or hold different political positions against people, but it does get frustrating when they repeat lies and don't check their facts!
 
I've lost several friends and my sister stopped talking to me because I do not support Obama.

My mother starts the conversation with "Don't talk to me about politics."
 
I've lost several friends and my sister stopped talking to me because I do not support Obama.

My mother starts the conversation with "Don't talk to me about politics."

Wow. That's pretty hardcore. So it obviously doesn't matter that you're coming from the left of Obama it's the principle of you not supporting him? (not really a question I guess because you just stated so)
 
Wow. That's pretty hardcore. So it obviously doesn't matter that you're coming from the left of Obama it's the principle of you not supporting him? (not really a question I guess because you just stated so)

They know I'm a socialist and not a democrat. They can live with that. But to not support Obama .. with my background with community and politics .. that makes no sense to them no matter how many facts I throw at them.
 
They know I'm a socialist and not a democrat. They can live with that. But to not support Obama .. with my background with community and politics .. that makes no sense to them no matter how many facts I throw at them.

Frankly, I see their point......Obama (more Socialist than not) is as close as you're going to get to what you strive for, un-American as it is.....

You don't have much of a choice do you.....I think, not voting at all requires you to STFU about government, and live with the decisions the rest of us make....
 
Frankly, I see their point......Obama (more Socialist than not) is as close as you're going to get to what you strive for, un-American as it is.....

You don't have much of a choice do you.....I think, not voting at all requires you to STFU about government, and live with the decisions the rest of us make....

He does have the option to vote third party...
 
Frankly, I see their point......Obama (more Socialist than not) is as close as you're going to get to what you strive for, un-American as it is.....

You don't have much of a choice do you.....I think, not voting at all requires you to STFU about government, and live with the decisions the rest of us make....

I think you should go stick your head back in the toliet where you live dummy.

Who the fuck told you that I wasn't going to vote dummy?

Obama is as much socialist as your grandpappy was.

You're much too dumb to know the difference.
 
I think you should go stick your head back in the toliet where you live dummy.

Who the fuck told you that I wasn't going to vote dummy?

Obama is as much socialist as your grandpappy was.

You're much too dumb to know the difference.

Actually, my Great, Great, Great, Great Grandpappy was a Muslim in Croatia but not a Socialist, quite the opposite.....according to kin there
And face reality dufus, voting third party is akin to not voting....it means nothing in 2012......there is no one running for the Communists Party....
Who are you going to support in this third party ? Alexander ? You'll be one of his 2 votes....go for it.
 
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I think I will have to say yes......when I left the fold and became a Republican back in the Carter days a friend I had from high school cut me off.....what can I say?.....I matured and he didn't........
 
Actually, my Great, Great, Great, Great Grandpappy was a Muslim in Croatia but not a Socialist, quite the opposite.....according to kin there
And face reality dufus, voting third party is akin to not voting....it means nothing in 2012......there is no one running for the Communists Party....
Who are you going to support in this third party ? Alexander ? You'll be one of his 2 votes....go for it.

Are you of the opinion that you and I are friends?

No?

Then why in the fuck would you think I would give a damn about what an assclown like you thinks of my vote?

You're just this really crabby ass blip on my screen that always has something really stupid to say.

Keep posting to me if you must.

I like making fun of you. :0)
 
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