• happybadger [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    The worst is when you're in a long-term relationship with a liberal or an open right-winger and all the problematic opinions keep coming with every new event. It's always become a tug-of-war between trying to respect them as a person and questioning if they're a sociopath.

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        4 years ago

        I don't even think I'd date a socdem anymore unless they're on board with Under No Pretexts. A previous partner terrified me when I said "we might have to run the Canadian border at some point to escape Trump and his militias" and she refused to touch a gun then or learn how to safely handle one prior to needing to use it. Ideology isn't a test of their opinions so much as it is a test of how they'll respond to conditions, and as conditions worsen they'll either tune out or become reactionary.

            • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              Y'all are making me feel lucky to live in a place where Berniecrats are the mainstream and it goes left from there.

                • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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                  4 years ago

                  It's called any urban area on the west coast, Santa Cruz or north.

          • furryanarchy [comrade/them,they/them]
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            4 years ago

            That very much limits how far the relationship could go. Like I maybe could fuck a conservative in a threesome with someone I didn't hate. A could bang a lib a few times before getting bored and leaving. (And have a few times, lol) But I don't think I could go as far as living with someone and making them a large part of my life unless they were some kind of real leftist. I would never be able to let my guard down and be truly open if they weren't.

    • Ericthescruffy [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Lol....not sure if she still is but my ex and baby mamma, believe it or not, was a 4channing, gamer gate, sargon of ahkad watching, SJW fear mongerer when we split. Pretty sure she's at least anti trump but.....yeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaah....suffice it to say we both took *exceptionally * divergent political paths and outlooks on life over the past decade or so. "Irreconcilable differences" is one way to say it I guess. Thankfully I have primary, and parallel parenting and disengagement is easier then ever in the modern era but still...god bless my poor kiddo for being torn between the two of us.