I have relatives who are appearing to support Donald Trump and I'm massively torn between "I like hearing about their lives and pictures of their kids" and "oh, god, how am I related to these people should I have facebook block them?" and it's so hard.
On the plus side, his reply to me was fine. On the minus side, he thought another friend of his calling Hillary a bitch was just fine. So now I'm still angry, and I don't like it, and I really don't want to vote for Hillary basically out of spite because many of the issues that led me to go with Obama in 2008 are still there, but I'm GETTING CLOSER ALL OF THE TIME I TELL YOU WHAT.
FWIW, I blocked a very conservative cousin of mine during one of the Obama campaigns and haven't regretted it for a minute. The percentage of political rants to stuff about his kids was pretty skewed, though.
There are many things that are not great about tumblr, but by God I would love some kind of blacklist for Facebook. Begone from my timeline, politics! Sigh.
I finally blocked a few people. I also created a "I know you're a liberal" filter, and posted to THAT that if I saw you bashing any Dem candidate (not questioning, and of course it's OK to post your preferences), I would mute you. I don't want to see the inter-party BS. These actions have all helped.
Oh, that's a good idea! Sadly, I'm pretty sure he would know I was talking to him. And, you know, our politics are not that far apart! His views are mostly ones that I agree with or can respect! Just, the tone. I will never be able to sign up for tone being meaningless.
Start indoctrinating Lucy now, is all I have to say.
(You should not of course indoctrinate Lucy, you should raise her to be a thoughtful woman of good will and trust her to make good decisions from there. But it must be tempting.)
not to rub it in, but this is one reason why I'm not on FB. I cannot handle politics in that environment. I want to talk either in person or online with people whose opinions I know won't drive me bugfuck. I don't want to get into fights with family or friends. As it is, I have to avoid talking about Obama with my Chicago-land brother & SIL.
Eh, I'm probably whining more than I should. I just find it so frustrating to watch someone who ought to be on roughly the same side as me regurgitating anti-Hillary talking points from 1994, and that kind of really personal Hillary-hate just seems so inexplicable to me. Say you don't want to vote for her because you don't approve of her politics! I myself voted Obama in 2008! But why do so many people even on the left have such a viscerally negative reaction to her? (I mean, other than the millions of dollars spent over the past 25 years to demonize her, which I'm sure helped. And sexism. But man, I hate to go to the sexism place.)
Ah, venting. Wanna hear about the early-twenties co-worker who said today that he didn't like Obama because he divided the country by giving a speech about how racism was bad, thus creating racism? After he also said "well, he wasn't born in the United States" I thought he must be trolling, but I asked and apparently not.
Omg, I saw that on my feed, and like a chump, I actually read all of the comments left on that post (I didn't know it was your brother?); the woman who started replying nonsensically also made me want to crawl into a cave with despair.
There is a reason why I don't even look at the FBs of any of my relatives. (I don't know that my nephew or nieces WOULD post anything political, but I don't even want to find out.)
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I...have no solution, just empathy.
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FWIW, I blocked a very conservative cousin of mine during one of the Obama campaigns and haven't regretted it for a minute. The percentage of political rants to stuff about his kids was pretty skewed, though.
There are many things that are not great about tumblr, but by God I would love some kind of blacklist for Facebook. Begone from my timeline, politics! Sigh.
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It has got to be brutal when it's family.
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Start indoctrinating Lucy now, is all I have to say.
(You should not of course indoctrinate Lucy, you should raise her to be a thoughtful woman of good will and trust her to make good decisions from there. But it must be tempting.)
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SIGH. So sorry.
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Ah, venting. Wanna hear about the early-twenties co-worker who said today that he didn't like Obama because he divided the country by giving a speech about how racism was bad, thus creating racism? After he also said "well, he wasn't born in the United States" I thought he must be trolling, but I asked and apparently not.
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There is a reason why I don't even look at the FBs of any of my relatives. (I don't know that my nephew or nieces WOULD post anything political, but I don't even want to find out.)
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