same goes for the right

I've tried, just so you don't have to. It doesn't work.

It 'can' work. People can change beliefs eventually

Theoretically, of course.

I knew a guy who was dating a Labor party volunteer, they're like "oh we're the moderate lefties, you can be a white male around us if you prostrate and let our homosexual allies sexually harass you"

I mean theory and reality are very different.

O.o sexually harass?

Totally moderate guys, we only somewhat believe you should be a second class citizen incapable of equal protection

everyone has a mix of liberal and conservative values, even in regards to the same topic, that they mix to form their world view. But what is happening to the left today has nothing to do with said mix of values but rather a cult like behaivor of rabid animals acting as the useful idiots to the very people they are expendable to

Yeah, I went to her birthday party and got a lot of toes up and down my leg

regressive leftists are evil

Depends on how obnoxious both people are. If you're autistically bringing up politics every day, no shit it isn't going to work out, but if you can have those types of discussions without getting childish, it really shouldnt be a big deal

I dates an SJW, she broke up withme for being a bad person when I told her things like the wage gap were fake, I felt kind of bad for her, she was crazy about their ideas, like kept her hair super short because she was that afraid of rapists, and some other crazy stuff

I detest SJWs

If they're ideologically posessed, I'd say that would be the line

But every political position can be that way

right or left

mostly left

It's more common in the left today yea

but it can happen everywhere

true, but the probability is very low for the right

and extremely high for the left

The far right are surprisingly okay if you get over all the edgy shit they say if they're young or drunk

remember the idealogical spread chart tim posted?

Idk I'd be just as quick to turn down someone who's ideologically posessed on the right as I would the left

that the right has been stable, while the left is essentially freefalling toward communism

I suspect that's because the fringe beliefs of the left are much more easily rationalized as being about "fairness" and "compassion" than the fringe beliefs of the right

only the one side has been moving, it's been most of the left and they are completely unhinged

Fairness yes, compassion probably not

The Overton-window has shifted towrds the left. So, the center has become the "right".

even if the opposite is sometimes true

It doesn't even have to be a far / fringe thing

ideological posession can happen a politically

I don't understand why the left continues to support socialism and communism when we have the example of Venezuela collapsing

it's a philosophical term

"that's not real socialism"

Their idea of fairness is heavily tainted by envy and believing anyone with any impressive traits is having it way too easy

@Borg Queen (DEDR1) I don't think bernie sanders ever retracted his praise of maduro.. anyone know if he did?

but yeah, socialism is cancer

people who support socialism are delusional

Real socialism is utopian, an unobtainable ideal.