I met some long time friends for pizza and beer tonight and i thought it was a fun night but right before we parted ways the two of them held an intervention with me. They said i was bringing up "socialist stuff" too much and it was making them depressed. They said to keep the conversation exclusively to things like games and anime. That if i didnt stop they didnt want to be friends anymore. Have you guys/gals/nonbinary pals experienced something like this before?
fuck. right now I'm moping about the closest friend i ever had that i lost because she insisted that i go vote for joe biden. fuck man. shit hurts
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The friendship broke because of a lot of reasons. Long story short, I basically adopted her as a mom friend and trusted her judgement in choosing what was best for my life. That ultimately broke down in 2020 when I started drifting really hard to the left and she kept shaming me that I didn't vote for Joe Biden. I could articulate this a LOT better if I weren't drunk as shit right now, but I trusted that she was right and I was absolutely shook when I saw her take the definitively wrong stance on something. (Saying Joe Biden stood for women's rights, in this case). I used to trust everything she said but after that I couldn't take anything she said seriously. We were both so angry at eachother and refused to admit any wrong so we just... drifted apart
And fuck man. that HURTS. i am 100% sure that leaving her behind was the best choice for me but it doesn't change the fact that it's just emotionally painful. it was a toxic relationship where I ultimately needed her approval on everything but fuck man, I was her best friend for like 3 years and I don't know what to do anymore
It probably doesn't help that I'm listening to verifiably sad music :tm: but fuck
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That seems like it might be mendable to me at this point, might be worth sharing your perspective with some examples of egregious shit Biden has done as "the stuff you were concerned about"
Honestly it's not. I don't want spill my whole life story on leftist shitpost board but tl;dr it was for the best. Not being around her made me feel better about myself and there were a lot of problems with our relationship that ultimately stemmed from her. The only way it could work is if I demanded that she change several fundamental things about herself and that's not going to happen to someone I haven't spoke to in almost a year if I couldn't have done it when she was one of my closest friends. There were a lot of problems with us beyond her being a lib that probably aren't mendable and almost certainly aren't worth trying to mend. As much as it hurts, it was for the better, and I think that's part of why it hurts so bad.
I didn't lose anyone necessarily, but people were shocked that I didn't vote. So many people don't see all the things he's doing wrong too