This is true. We call him "the other guy." "The other guy" is very dogmatic and unflinching in his political views. "The other guy" is a fundamentalist.

I try to change the subject as soon as possible, mainly because the people that do this to me are as conservative as you can imagine and have no thoughts of their own. I mean idc if you're conservative but don't expect me to go along with whatever you say if I disagree. And then when I disagree they say I'm arguing. It is really annoying, so ya I change subject asap.

EDIT: Also the average person just repeats what they hear through the media and other such outlets, even though they neither agree with the topic (or think they do), nor even know what it is they are talking about.

Bump for THANKSGIVING POLITICS TALK IN THE AGE OF TRUMP

Luckily my entire extended family hates him. But I want to hear about your nut job aunts and uncles, your chain email loving father in law, your tragically indoctrinated teenagers. Let's go!

You want to know about the gay trump supporters in my extended family or the Muslim ones (yes serious).

I'm going to focus on football

I haven't had Thanksgiving with my family in 7 years. I'm scared to know what will happen if it's brought up.

If it comes up during Christmas dinner, I bail ASAP to avoid confrontation. Wrong place, wrong time for all that. I see my family for a week a year. Last thing I want to do is talk about controversial topics with them.

at a poker table recently someone started going on about how trump was Hitler - result was an end of all discussion - people don't want to engage with a nutcase

Thanksgiving 2016: In which America discovers their one racist uncle is actually all of them.

itt i learned that politics is a serious business in u.s. (in the sense that people are anxious talking about it with their *family*) despite being a total clownshow

Like any other ideology, people don't make a distinction between insulting the party and insulting them. Religion is the same way. If you state that you don't think God exists and they're religious, they take offense to it.

I find it best to either talk about it one-on-one in a more private environment or not at all because nobody will ever admit being wrong or misinformed in front of other people even if it is obvious to everybody.

LOL at ever talking to anybody about politics ever again, Jesus Christ. Here is a little factoid about all the Trumpfans of the world: they know they're idiots. They just want to see you get upset about something, **** em.

And move the **** out of Ohio already, good lord.

Just liberally apply insults to people who disagree with you. The more they disagree, the more insulting you should be. The light will eventually switch on and they will suddenly agree with you. It's kinda surprising when you first realize how well it works.

Works best with people you have some sort of relationship with -- friends, relatives, and especially your boss, she will be especially thankful of the lesson.

Don't skimp on the insults just because you are face to face. Its important to be "real" in your superiority. Just imagine that you are sitting at a computer typing.

Try to emphasize with the person. Get to know their point of view. In this way, you can quickly tailor your insults on a more personal level. It will make for a much more satisfying experience, for you, and they will more acutely know how superior you are of them.

You'll know that everyone finally agrees with you by the uncomfortable silence as they take time to quietly bask in the glow of your brilliant mind.

Are you still a libertarian?

The thing I admire about these posts is how sincere they are. There's an overwhelming arrogance right below the victimhood that they're earnestly unaware of. It's never even crossed their mind that perhaps the shoe just fits damn well. Nobody could possibly be insulting their ideas based on any level of merit. Rather, it's simply that people just "disagree" and resort to "insults". Because their ideas and thoughts are quite obviously right and good and impervious to criticism. It's ****ing incredible.

Nah, just a standard center left democrat. I grew up.

Yeah lol I didn't realize this thread was 2009. I was like woah - Riverman praising the Austrians - the election must have severely traumatized him.

Btw my absolute nightmare is when two people are talking politics near me and I can't escape - like a plane or at the gym or something. Ugh.

God, I spent about half a return flight from Japan a few months back listening to two idiots behind me talking about how Trump was scary but they could never cast a vote for that bitch Hillary. Could even hear them yapping through my earplugs.

Gotta have headphones just in case.

Yeah, you could do that, or you could not pretend you are anonymously banging on your keyboard and treat the person as a human being who's views and values, while different from yours, deserve respect and consideration. I find it sad that people can't disagree amicably anymore.

And besides, the people who you berate and then seem to agree with you in all likelihood do not agree. They just realize you are behaving unreasonably and are agreeing with you as a means of shutting you down. It's called manners.

Methinks your sarcasm detector is out of specification.

My experience isn't this. When anti-PC acts or general insensitivity transpires IRL direct but non-aggro confrontation seems to work wonders; clearly makes them uncomfortable.

Online, trolls be everywhere and feed off the neg attention, but this is not my experience in the real world (lol sample size tho, far less frequent IRL).

For real. Noise-canceling headphones are indispensable during air travel.

I'm the guy that brings it up

I'm sick of answering questions related to Donald Trump. I know most people who are asking are just curious as to how something like that could happen but when you have to talk about Trump during your friend's birthday party on 3 separate occasions it can wear on you a bit.