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I don't care how "nice" someone is, I'm Trans and if someone disagrees with my basic rights then they can piss off.

I can’t be friends with someone who votes against my ability to access my medication, and my rights to access healthcare and employment without discrimination. If you are voting for people who think of people like me as subhuman, then you don’t respect me enough to be my friend.

Very, VERY much depends on HOW we disagree politically.

The entitlement of the average right winger really is something to behold.

I don't highly enforce my pronouns. Not because it doesn't effect me but because being labeled a troublemaker who is hard to get along with is a career limiting move... And some interactions are so limited that it's not worth creating social awkwardness to self advocate. Days where this happens a lot make me depressed, grumpy and eats into the energy I have reserved to enjoy my leisure time.

Which is why it is so frustrating that some people demand that calling me by my dead name or refer openly to my sex using pronouns I hate is completely consequenceless that even when I tell them the only reprocussion to them is that I will not like being around very much them they get angry. Like I am cheating them of being owed that I automatically enjoy their company.

They are so bloody sensitive that the consequence of me thinking they are kind of shit to be around is somehow a tyranny. I just wanna yell at them like dude.. You keep bringing attention to the physical body that represents my least favorite aspects of existing by mentioning directly in conversation because that's what words like "she", "her", "girl" and "woman" mean to you. You might as well be openly talking about my fucking genetalia because that is your only qualifier for using those words. You are reflecting the things I didn't like about about the experience of myself back at me. If I openly referenced your least favorite physical trait every time casually in conversation how much would you enjoy being around me?

Politics are people’s ethics and morality applied.

It is perfectly valid to judge people over them, and to shame people because of them. Just like you’d shame someone for littering.

Or even more aptly: just like you’d shame someone for using the N word. It is perfectly legal; it is NOT acceptable.

100% People who think that disagreements about other people's right to exist are just matters of taste reveal how deeply hateful they are. This is not a matter for compromise.

Of course you can have differing opinions and be friends. There are obviously scales of importance.

If you believe people with a different skin color than you should be slaves, we won't be friends.

If you believe Trans rights shouldn't exist, we won't be friends.

If you believe climate change is a world ending catastrophe and all cars should be baned we may be able to be friends because I disagree on the baning of cars.

If you think gun reform is required we will probably be friends but we will probably have different ideas of how to go about it.

and if Trump being a FELON And RAPIST isn't enough to get you to overcome the Democrat bias you were raised with.. you are a sad, disgusting person. No, we cannot be friends if you support him. Kamala: I want to support the working class and help people buy homes. Trump: I will immediately punish everyone who has opposed me. The two sides are not the same. Maybe before Trump you could pretend they were. They weren't.. but the GOP kinda pretended they weren't fascist POSs. Project 2025 just fucking comes out and says it. They want to overthrow democracy.

i CaN hAvE A dIfFeReNt oPiNiOn, bRo! Gaawd!

(Fascism is not an opinion. It's a fucking disease.)

This reminds me of the, "We can negotiate and find a middle ground" argument. No we fucking can't. Your opening position is so extreme that there is no possible way that we can find a middle ground because even the middle ground would be too extreme for me to accept.

We can't be friends. Ok. But we can still fuck. Right?

Part of the issue is, what we used to think of as "politics", the discourse about what's best for society and what will lead to happy lives for all, is rarely spoken about. What we have now is "RAGE-politics", where people insert completely ridiculous non-sequitur concepts about who's at fault into the minds of malleable victims and have them frame it as an identity.

Insurrection is not a political point of view.

I have friends from all over the spectrum (both kinds). I don't care if they're assholes or arrogant, but I appreciate they're politically motivated and fight for what they believe in.

Being friends with them also helps deradicalize them. If they're a good person, why not be a ground truth to help them see what's going on?

If your political opinion includes the phrase " you should die"

It's going to be hard to stay friends

This wasn't always the stance for the right wingers, therefore it did used to be entirely possible to disagree politically and still be friends. But the new right is openly hostile to everything and everyone, so I agree. If you support that shit then we are not friends. As a matter of fact, if you are an enemy of democracy, you are my enemy.