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Are you actually losing friends over this election?

Posted on 11/10/16 at 9:19 am
Posted by MightyYat
New Orleans
Member since Jan 2009
24661 posts
Posted on 11/10/16 at 9:19 am
I have some very educated human beings around me in my life that are totally losing their minds over this. Like, completely off the rails about to lock themselves in a basement crazy. Some of the crazy shite they've said over the past 2 days is just whacko.
Posted by biggsc
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Member since Mar 2009
34209 posts
Posted on 11/10/16 at 9:20 am to
We had 8 years of Obama so they can deal with it
Posted by c on z
Zamunda
Member since Mar 2009
127601 posts
Posted on 11/10/16 at 9:21 am to
I was unfriended on FB multiple times in 2008. Not too surprised at this.
Posted by gatorrocks
Lake Mary, FL
Member since Oct 2007
13969 posts
Posted on 11/10/16 at 9:21 am to
Not that I know of. I don't care if they don't want to be my friend anymore over it though. They were never real friends. And I don't deal well with emotional unstable people. I tend to move on.
Posted by CamdenTiger
Member since Aug 2009
62734 posts
Posted on 11/10/16 at 9:21 am to
Meh, they weren't real friends if they can't understand how fragile freedom is, and how I saved their arse....
Posted by OldHickory
New Orleans
Member since Apr 2012
10602 posts
Posted on 11/10/16 at 9:22 am to
I had several people unfriend me in FB. People I've done some pretty heavy lifting for. You know what? frick 'em. Glad they're exposed.
Posted by BamaBeast
Eufaula
Member since Aug 2009
669 posts
Posted on 11/10/16 at 9:23 am to
Lost one yesterday.

Deleted me out of all social media, sent me a message telling me that he couldn't believe associate with someone who agrees with Trump. Etc Etc.

Sent him a message back of Good Riddance.
Posted by Mike da Tigah
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Member since Feb 2005
59151 posts
Posted on 11/10/16 at 9:24 am to
It's probably for the best, huh?

Posted by GetBackToWork
Member since Dec 2007
6282 posts
Posted on 11/10/16 at 9:25 am to
Yes. There are some people I know who, no lie, need true professional intervention. Their behavior is like watching drug addicts or those with mental illness funnel before treatment.
Posted by MrLarson
Member since Oct 2014
34984 posts
Posted on 11/10/16 at 9:25 am to
I haven't and wouldn't care if it did happen. We did what had to be done, that is what grown ups do.
Posted by skrayper
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Member since Nov 2012
31085 posts
Posted on 11/10/16 at 9:25 am to
Only the guy who said those that voted for Clinton should be round up and executed via firing squad. I unfriended him.

No one else has been unfriended.
Posted by cbtullis
Atlanta
Member since Apr 2004
6324 posts
Posted on 11/10/16 at 9:25 am to
I had no idea how many left leaning friends I had until Wednesday morning
Posted by ladyluckUGA
Member since Feb 2014
6373 posts
Posted on 11/10/16 at 9:27 am to
if you're losing friends over an election then they weren't real friends to begin with.
Posted by ManBearTiger
BRLA
Member since Jun 2007
21880 posts
Posted on 11/10/16 at 9:27 am to
I've blocked about 25-30 jackweeds who were melting all over my facebook.
Posted by stat19
Member since Feb 2011
29350 posts
Posted on 11/10/16 at 9:27 am to
I have little tolerance for whiney people that don't accept personal responsibility. As such, I'm usually written off by them after the first conversation/encounter. So, I don't know anyone like that whose friendship I could lose.
Posted by elposter
Member since Dec 2010
25131 posts
Posted on 11/10/16 at 9:28 am to
quote:


Are you actually losing friends over this election?


I won't lose them, but I honestly think that is in large part because at least for now I'm willing to let them vent and implicitly (and pretty close to explicitly) insult the crap out of me and essentially call me a bigot. Right now I'm pretty much just saying that I think they are overreacting and not being intellectually honest or fair, but that I understand their emotion. I'm not really engaging them. I think if I actually aggressively called them out on their bullshite right now our friendship probably would be in danger because I don't think THEY could handle it.

These are good people and good friends that have lost (hopefully temporarily) their minds over this and I'm banking on them calming down and coming to their senses after a couple of days. If they don't, we probably won't be hanging out much anymore which would suck. I'm honestly shocked by the behavior of a lot of people I know and really like.
Posted by Wally Sparks
Atlanta
Member since Feb 2013
29347 posts
Posted on 11/10/16 at 9:31 am to
Not losing friends, but seeing them come unhinged is pretty disturbing.
Posted by chris504
New Orleans
Member since Nov 2012
588 posts
Posted on 11/10/16 at 9:33 am to
Haven't noticed anyone defriending me on FB, but I don't post much on there and only made one post referencing the election. Nobody negatively responded and if anyone did defriend me then I haven't noticed yet

One acquaintance thats on Twitter who has been tweeting/re-tweeting a whole bunch of anti-Trump stuff for the past 2 days. So I've just been retweeting a bunch of MAGA stuff. Haven't been unfollowed yet

Posted by DawgfaninCa
San Francisco, California
Member since Sep 2012
20092 posts
Posted on 11/10/16 at 9:35 am to
quote:

Are you actually losing friends over this election?


I'm going to lose at least one but he was more of an acquaintance anyway.

When the audio tape of Trump talking about grabbing pussy came out, a male acquaintance who knew my brother and I supported Trump walked up to us and started blasting us for supporting that POS Trump and laughed at us for thinking Trump was going to win. He was so sure that Big Mother was going to win that he opened his big mouth before the election.

What do y'all think I should say to him the next time I run into him?
Posted by blueboy
Member since Apr 2006
56778 posts
Posted on 11/10/16 at 10:34 am to
I lost one FB friend. I'm surprised, because I have a shitload of super liberal FB friends and I was on there all day yesterday telling people to get over it.
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