Do I have right wing friends? No.
Are all of my friends politically apathetic, and occasionally spew reactionary nonsense? Yes.
I have a few friends who have economics degrees and work for banks. They're almost definitely right wing, at least in a Canadian Tory apathetic toward social issues way. We mostly dont talk politics, I think that's the case for anyone I met before like the age of 15 or so.
Of course not, I'm a queer woman. I'm not going to associate with anyone that wants to harm my existence
Yes. It’s ironic, in a social setting I get along with them more than the woke liberals. They preach less and are more laidback. I find the liberals say things that grate me more than the right wingers do. But politics never gets brought up when I’m around the conservatives so I only know they’re right wing based on what people have told me.
As for family, I constantly tell my dad “give it a rest already, you’re not even 80 yet” whenever he goes on his conservative rants. It stops him every time.
Edit: To be clear I won’t be friends with someone who has Fox News brainworms or is openly racist, classist, homophobic, etc.
people without a well-formed ideology who occasionally come up with some right wing adjacent take about the economy that they probably heard on the news or from a relative? yes, and I'll actively engage and push back when they say it
anyone who's actively racist or actively believes "fuck the poor", "fuck the homeless" etc., i.e. anyone who actually buys in to right wing ideology? :bugs-no:
No. All of my friends are leftists and i wouldnt have it any other way. The only people i communicate with willingly who arent is family.
Why would I do that to myself lol
Depending on where you live having only leftist friends can be synonymous with having no friends.
Living in the thick of chud country, the best you get around here is generally well-intentioned libs who don't follow the party lockstep
https://www.gameofthronesquote.com/images/renly-baratheon/a-man-without-friends-is-a-man-without-power-30f.jpg
"a man without friends is a man without power" - dude who gets merked early in the game
I will give right wingers a chance up until the moment they open up to me about which group of people they want to exterminate.
So, no. No right wing friends
I did before I came out. Being trans put a damper on all that. Now most of my friend are vaguely progressive libs - the kind that call themselves democratic socialists and want healthcare, but are fine with America dropping little a bombs as a treat.
All of my friends are, like most people, ideologically inconsistent.
This is a good point.
I do my best to steer them right
:deng-salute:
I had a close friend who once told me that he thinks he became a convinced fascist and that he was afraid of losing me as a friend because of it. After that I never talked to him again. He's in the military now.
Almost all my friends are liberals, so yes. I have right-wing friends. They just don't want to talk about politics. I have chuds at work and my family. If we talk about politics we enjoy making fun of Biden or whatever. When I talk about things like wage labour exploitation they generally agree. "Our prices went up 30% this year, I don't remember getting a 30% raise on wages lol!"
The self proclaimed right wingers in my family will agree with anything I say as long as I dunk on Biden or liberals in general first.
They're leftists, they just to bought in on propaganda to understand it.
I sometimes have no choice, moreso in my previous school and work environments.
The reason I post so often about capital-R "Rationalists" is that I had classes with, argued with, and sometimes got to watch such "Rationalists" ride the cryptofascist Slip-N'-Slide in real time, from anti-creationist dunk videos to frothing at the mouth about feminists and SJWs when "GamerGate" became a thing and some even embraced :jordan-eboy-peterson: as their "Cultural Christian" lord and savior eventually. Some even went to Charlottesville or were there for the Jan 6 chudfest. Others remained, as they put it, "nonpolitical" and just worship billionaires and await techno-rapture once :my-hero: receives enough subsidies.
I only voluntarily communicate with :LIB: s and my tabletop group is almost entirely :LIB: s. They're less bazinga than the "Rationalists" but I sometimes have to hear whoppers such as "ELO~N should stop tweeting and instead focus on what he's good at" and I have to very carefully chip away at that statement by making them ponder what ELO~N is good at, exactly. I got one to admit that ELO~N is just a marketing guy and not much else, but he insisted that the marketing was super duper important because "electric cars are important and before ELO~N no one cared about them." :so-true:
I have one right-wing mostly-ex-friend who I talk to from time to time (4 or 5 times a year). He knows I don't like him and he knows I don't like him for his politics. Other than that no I don't and I could never imagine having them.
