i don't critique conservative echo chambers because they lack critical thinking and social awareness. i thought liberal echo chambers would be at least 10% better but it's not. it's like an identical copy of the radical right except they dye their hair more frequently.
okay. lol
they walk on eggshells around you because they know one wrong opinion will terminate their friendship or send you spiraling into a psychosis
well they don't actually. but alright. if you say so mr forum user
i could be your friend in an alternate universe. i would never treat you differently for your political votes or opinions, i would value your opinion regardless of how much i disagree with it. even right now i harbor no animosity toward you or see you differently for your beliefs.
we are in the middle of a conversation where you're intentionally being inflammatory and presumptuous about my interpersonal relationships because I disagree with you. so I don't believe u really. I wonder if maybe the disconnect here is that you think being superficially polite is what kindness is
however, your belief that you must segregate from people you perceive as 'hating your existence' would worry me immensely.
well let's open this one up to the floor. can we get momentum or thearmyguy or someone to share their thoughts on my gender and then let us know whether they want to hang out with me and all my other gay and transgender friends
it's not clear to me why you edited out about half of that middle part, but I'm not going to delete my responses
I think you misunderstand the situation frankly. I'm not excluding kindhearted people who care about me and want to have a real friendship with me. conservatives don't like me either. and it's not because of my policy views, it's just because I'm weird and I don't act like them. nobody gives a stuff about policy, as a matter of fact conservatives frequently agree with leftist positions when you discuss them without the various buzzwords the RNC rotates through on a monthly basis. but what they emphatically do
not want is for me to have access to estradiol, to marry a man, to have the gall to ask that I be referred to by a name that I like. etc. these aren't matters of framing. at best they are woefully propagandized, at worst they truly think their personal Ick Level should determine how other people live their lives. either way that's not my responsibility to correct
the family members and former friends I alluded to in the first post I made in this thread weren't cut off because of their thoughts on taxation or gun rights or whatever bullstuff you're imagining. it was because they think that I should be prevented from doing the things in my personal life that will make me happy. things which, notably, do not have any effect whatsoever on them or anyone else. I'm not interested in having a relationship with someone who can't so much as stop themselves from giving me a dirty look when I mention a romantic partner of mine. I'm just not gonna hang out with people who think my life should be worse because they think it's gross. your misguided insistence that the poor widdle reactionaries just wanna be fwiends isn't going to convince me that I actually
shouldn't require that the people I choose to have interpersonal relationships with hold a basic fundamental level of respect for me as an individual
one day maybe I'll meet some of these earnest and well-adjusted republicans you seem to know. but until then I'll probably hold onto my policy of not spending my life with people who believe that I am a symptom of moral decay
i like how you label me as a Annoying Orange guy/republican when, if you bothered to read my previous post, i am not. though at this point it's really not surprising that you will lump anyone to the right of you as all the same people.
is the implication of this post that it should be important to me exactly where you fall on the political compass? like I said, I don't really care what your fiscal policy preferences are in this context, the only thing that matters is how you feel about the other parts, and calling me a "cigarette" does make your position known. so why should I bother with identifying your exact political ideology before writing you off? does it matter whether some random richardhead is a registered republican or a lifelong libertarian?