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[–] [email protected] 80 points 8 months ago (3 children)

My mom pretty much had an existential crisis over this when she made a friend at work and her husband turned out to be Trump supporter. And this is in Canada. It makes you wonder where girls like that even find guys like that.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Trump supporters in Canada are especially stupid.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I've seen Confederate flags flying off the backs of pick up trucks on the west coast of Canada... Amazing how stupid people can be

[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago (1 children)

When you realize it's about racism and not politics you understand why they are like this and it's not surprising.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

America does supply the best racist symbols after WW2 era Germany

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Like the '~~Thin Blue Line~~ Coward's Swastika', it's really not exclusive to a single country. It just means they have fascist beliefs, are probably racist, and want others to know!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

don’t tel them Canada doesn’t have a president. Or god save the queen on their toonies.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

They even exist in Japan because he was "tough" on china

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've met a Belgian Trump supporter. The world just continues to surprise us eh?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

There's no limit to who will fall prey to their particular algorithms and confirm their particular biases. Mix that in with an identity rooted in the bigotry and biases they inherit from their parents.

That and stupidity. People are so fucking stupid.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Japan does have a history of siding with Nazis, after all.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

When you've been conditioned all your life by society (and conservatives) to believe that your primary function is to be a baby factory, and you know you only have a finite amount of time to be a baby factory before you're old and busted and cast aside, you do whatever you can to land someone stable enough to marry, regardless of their politics.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

That... Makes me sad for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Enough to marry

So I guess capable of answering "I do" when asked a question would be stable enough

[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is going to come as a shock to some folks but people don't need to have the same politics to get along.

My wife is more conservative than me. We don't spend much time talking about politics and avoid being dicks to each other. When elections roll around we go to the polls and I'm sure cancel out each other's votes for a bunch of candidates.

When you and another person believe that there's more to life than politics it's easy to not get hung up on them when it comes to personal relationships. When you or the other person allow politics to dominate your life it isn't.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Politics, or more specifically, advocacy of a political philosophy is one indicator of someone's moral value system, sense of justice and loyalty, and basic epistemology.

I don't know how one pair bonds with someone who has very different attributes in that regard without compromising one's own values.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Not to put too fine a point on it, but that's exactly what I meant by letting politics dominate one's life.

I believe that a person's morals and values can be assessed and expressed in a more meaningful way through their actions and words in day-to-day life than by looking at their political beliefs. In other words seeing how a person treats the people around them, how they handle adversity, and how they enjoy life matters more than making sure they agree with you on issues X,Y, and Z.

Sometimes political beliefs do indicate core differences in values. A great example is differences in opinion on welfare policies. This indicates different ideas about the role personal responsibility vs the role outside forces play on people's lives.

My argument is that that sort of difference in ideals would become apparent very quickly without relying on political ideology to define it. Doing so shuts out any possibility of nuance and immediately turns slight differences of ideals and values into a larger, more hostile "us against them" issue. You're not dealing with a person with a slightly different perspective anymore, you're dealing with "the enemy".