What might be unexamined is what the term "friend" is understood to mean. What many on the authoritarian side desire are loyal pets. They are perplexed when people they treat like pets snap back. Also to be owned by "good" masters. Who provide treats and praise and belly rubs.
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Christian conservatives often practice their God-given charge to love their neighbor with their own twist: "Truly loving someone means pointing out that their sinfulness is hurting/degrading them." So specifically, they are *assigned* friends with permission to knock you.
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they don't want friends. they want tokens.
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Well, obviously. The "Some of my friends are ____!" line feels more truthy if you, in fact, have at least one friend who is ____.
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Yeah, I have no rule against friendship with conservatives, I just can't maintain a friendship with people who waste their lives being pointlessly cruel. Life's for living, not belittling people.
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Yup. "Why do things that happen to assholes keep happening to me?"
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Pretty much exactly My Ex-Buddy: Hey, my church thinks you're an abomination against God's plan and I think my T*RFy wife has a good point. But we're still buddies right? I'm sure he wonders why we haven't talked in 6 months. He still wants to be friends after all.


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a lot of conservatives think people just "choose" to be gay, that people "choose" to be poor or whatever. they think people had all these freedoms to make choices that they don't understand some things you can't choose & you cannot change, especially by yourself...
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Counterpoint: conservatives are “willing to have liberal friends” not because they’re accepting but because they believe they can convert them with enough time and effort. This tends to look a lot like proselytizing and those of us who identify as liberal just aren’t interested.
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