how do you deal with lefty friends

[Secret Messages]

told an irl friend that i think trannies are just fetishists and deluded loners and he got all passive aggressive then linked me a contrapoints video 3 hours later lmfao how the hell am i supposed to reply to that?

he’s also a self professed socialist. i poked him a bit about what his “beliefs” were a while ago and it’s literally just memes he sees on twitter and swallowing breadtube propaganda whole. While we were talking he was typing on his phone and im pretty sure he was looking up twitter gotchas for my questions. is it too late for him?

 

[A-Stump]

Either get over it or stop being friends.

 

[mindlessobserver]

Just accept that you disagree on some things and focus on the things you have in common. Only people in cults refuse to associate with people who don't conform to their beliefs.

 

[仙草茶]

I personally could never be friends with someone who needed to be coddled all the time also, people so easily offended probably are not worth the effort of maintaining a relationship with.

 

[OrionBalls]

I sit on their left hand side, at the table.
Let some right-handed jag bump my elbow, instead.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

In my experience, they tend to sever the friendship first depending on how far gone they are.

 

[Useful_Mistake]

Try facts. If it doesn't change his mind, then, yeah, the left corrupted him too much. Still can be friends though, as long as you are fine with it. Sure, he's retarded, but try and not let politics kill a, what I assume, is a good friendship.

In regards to the trans thing, you might want to link him this study by American College of Pediatricians that found that trans are trans for attention, and grow out of it if they don't perfom sex change. For those that do and "get better", the science on those studies are full of “serious limitations[that] permit only weak conclusions.”. "Statistically significant improvements have not been consistently demonstrated by multiple studies for most outcomes."

 

[mario if smoke weed]

The sad truth is that you can't talk truthfully about shit like transgenderism with most lefties. They've been duped into thinking these stupid pro-trans ideas because they don't want to be seen as bad people, so the most you can do is say nothing. I wouldn't have even said "trannies are just fetishists and deluded losers" because that does nothing to convince your friend you're right; you have to bring up the facts and statistics when talking about shit like this to a lefty.

If you want to keep them as a friend, just don't bring up politics. Some lefties are just caught up in the purity spiral and aren't really that bad of people. You should ask yourself what your friendship is built on, what you and your friend have in common, whether or not he truly gives a shit about you as a friend. If he can't let this go and this gets in the way of your friendship then maybe that's your cue to cut him loose.

 

[Idiot Doom Spiral]

I don’t.

No fuss, no histrionics, no drama - just quietly delete their contact details and stay away from them forevermore.

The difference of opinion is not the issue. At my age, those on the left are the kind who want you to vociferously chant ‘fuck trump’, ‘fuck Brexit’, ‘fuck free speech’ etc. They are incapable of understanding nuance and deal exclusively in absolutes. That does not interest me in the slightest, so I consign them to history.

Several former friends developed a sudden moral/liberal conscience in their 30s when the partying ceased and the good times came to an end. I’d prefer to remember them as they were in the hedonistic apolitical years; rather than face the monsters they’ve become.

 

[DNA_JACKED]

Just link him videos of tranny butcher jobs gone wrong, or images from the GRS horror thread. Or quote the god ol' 41% number. Or suggest that skitzos should be listened to and believed instead of medicated because not doing so is invalidating their lived experiences. That's always a fun logjam for their brains.

How do I deal with leftie friends? The same way I do anyone else, I'm not changing my views, if you bring politics into a discussion I will argue it with you until you're blue int he face from screaming. If you dont like it leave, I dont need friends that want to inject communism into my day. If they want to # cancel people, I just start ignoring them.

It's better to have 3 good friends then 20 "friends" that will abandon you when twitter tells them to.

 

[Grub]

When I was younger, I had some friends who were some pretty extreme leftists. It's how I ended up having to be around a real life tranny who actually publicly talked about dilating to a room full of people. I came to realize soon though I hated being around those people and their phoniness and their bullshit. They were so fucking self righteous and full of themselves. Fuck honestly, some of those people could be lolcows. Makes me wish i'd filmed or recorded some of the shit these people said. Haven't seen any of them for a few years now. Was going occasionally for monthly get together dinners but I stopped getting invited. I pretty much just got really drunk, enjoyed the food, smoked a bunch and nodded along politely to whatever bullshit they babbled.

 

[DerKryptid]

Sit on their left hand

 

[NekoRightsActivist]

You are an insufferable faggot if you can't resist the urge to sperge about politic even toward your "friend" LMAO.

 

[Vingle]

You are an insufferable faggot if you can't resist the urge to sperge about politic even toward your "friend" LMAO.

This, got a friend that ask about the vax. Like no, I don't want to talk about politics.
You don't have to share all details, it depends on how competent they are.

 

[Jason Wynn]

I don’t hang out with leftists, simple as that. To paraphrase Steve Harvey, they “have no moral barometer”

 

[Idiot Asshole]

Right wingers are all studs and chads and all left wingers are diseased, weak degenerates. With the undeniable strength difference you can easily overpower him. Put him in a headlock and demand that he renounce socialism and its false patron saint Che Guevara or you'll break him like Reagan's glorious 80s America broke the weak and sickly Soviets. After his inevitable capitulation mutter in his ear "Murica, fuck yeah" and take a day trip to Costco to celebrate.

 

[Kenya Jones]

Honestly stopping a friendship over politics is super gay. Two of my closest friends are a lefty anarchist and a communist respectively and they've known my politics from the very beginning, never really had an issue because talking politics with friends is, again, gay. Although the way you describe your friend here he does seem like an insufferable faggot.

Try facts. If it doesn't change his mind, then, yeah, the left corrupted him too much. Still can be friends though, as long as you are fine with it. Sure, he's retarded, but try and not let politics kill a, what I assume, is a good friendship.

In regards to the trans thing, you might want to link him this study by American College of Pediatricians that found that trans are trans for attention, and grow out of it if they don't perfom sex change. For those that do and "get better", the science on those studies are full of “serious limitations[that] permit only weak conclusions.”. "Statistically significant improvements have not been consistently demonstrated by multiple studies for most outcomes."

Also holy fuck I hate the SPLC but this is hilarious, regarding the American College of Pediatrics:

ACPeds opposes adoption by LGBTQ couples, links homosexuality to pedophilia, endorses so-called reparative or sexual orientation conversion therapy for homosexual youth, believes transgender people have a mental illness and has called transgender health care for youth child abuse.

 

[Dysnomia]

I try to be mostly apolitical. But if someone keeps interjecting politics into every conversation I get annoyed. Brush off the mild stuff. But when it gets irritating eventually you might have to say something.

 

[RollerGator]

Just be funny.

 

[Secret Messages]

I've decided that my beliefs opinions are 100% objectively correct and none of this was my fault at all because if he was smarter he would've just believed what I believe already. problem solved!
I made this thread cause i was fishing for a specific response to setup a punchline but i forgot what it was sorry to disappoint you all