Could you be friends with a Trump supporter?

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Yes I am roommates with a Latino Trump supporter we just don't talk politics but I haven't been friends with white Trump supporters. We are segregated in blue and red states

[heatcharger]

Yes I am roommates with a Latino Trump supporter we just don't talk politics but I haven't been friends with white Trump supporters. We are segregated in blue and red states

OC and his roommate in law school like:

[wnwnwn]

Pretty skre even PSOL has MAGA friends

[bagelman]

Yes from 2015-2019

Not now.

[Continential]

a non political Trumper 

What does this mean? If you’re a “Trumper”, you are by definition “political”.

POV: Your life is about politics.


Of course I would.

[Ferguson97]

a non political Trumper 

What does this mean? If you’re a “Trumper”, you are by definition “political”.

POV: Your life is about politics.


Of course I would.

Why should I be friends with someone that I think is a bad person?

[Meclazine for Israel]

In regard to political figures, the fierce hatred boiling in people's brains does not engender normal human relationships and self respect.

[Arizona Iced Tea]

a non political Trumper 

What does this mean? If you’re a “Trumper”, you are by definition “political”.

POV: Your life is about politics.


Of course I would.

Why should I be friends with someone that I think is a bad person?

You think 74 million Americans are bad people? Yikes. I don't think Biden voters are bad people, we just disagree on how the government should be ran and policy but there are still so many other things to life than politics. I don't know why it's fair to cut potential friendships off over political disagreements.

[Ferguson97]

You think 74 million Americans are bad people? Yikes. I don't think Biden voters are bad people, we just disagree on how the government should be ran and policy but there are still so many other things to life than politics.

Oh, I think that way more than 74 million Americans are bad people.

Yes of course, there is more to life than politics. I don't think that someone being liberal/progressive automatically makes them a good person. There are a lot of bad people who agree with me on politics. But they're bad people in spite of their politics. Trump supporters are bad people because of their politics.

And like I said, I'm willing to give a pass to people who supported Trump in the past, but no longer support him, because I think that people can change.

But supporting Trump in 2024 means that you support a violent insurrection and an overthrow of the government. And nobody can be a good person and support that.

I don't know why it's fair to cut potential friendships off over political disagreements.

As I said before, why would I continue to be friends with someone that I think is a bad person?

[SNJ1985]

a non political Trumper 

What does this mean? If you’re a “Trumper”, you are by definition “political”.

POV: Your life is about politics.


Of course I would.

Why should I be friends with someone that I think is a bad person?

Why would, or should, anyone care if you consider them a ''bad person''? You can't even objectively define that. You don't believe in any objective moral authority or standard. Your entire moral framework is subjective and arbitrary.

[Ferguson97]

Why would, or should, anyone care if you consider them a ''bad person''?

I don’t understand your confusion. Why would someone want to be friends with me if I don’t like them?

[SNJ1985]

Why would, or should, anyone care if you consider them a ''bad person''?

I don’t understand your confusion. Why would someone want to be friends with me if I don’t like them?

I was talking about your general attitude towards everyone, whether they're trying to be friends with you or not. Perhaps I should have made that clearer.

[Sir Mohamed]

Depends of how much they're a supporter. Our neighbors, a couple in their late 50s, are Republicans, but my wife and I get along with them very well. They're not in the cult though and the woman was done with Trump after Charlottesville.

[Ferguson97]

Why would, or should, anyone care if you consider them a ''bad person''?

I don’t understand your confusion. Why would someone want to be friends with me if I don’t like them?

I was talking about your general attitude towards everyone, whether they're trying to be friends with you or not. Perhaps I should have made that clearer.

I don’t expect them to care, nor do I care if they care.

[PSOL]

Pretty skre even PSOL has MAGA friends

People have mistook me for conservative on more than one occasion because of me having “independent views” and I usually get along just fine even after political arguments with people.

Like, and I need to stress this, I get along arguing with extremely socially conservative or right wing people irl and am usually forceful in calling them out for their bigoted beliefs. I mean it helps that I was raised in a somewhat conservative household but even still I have been praised for my ability to get along with people and make a good impression.

Historically in my hood I’m always calling out bigotry. I remember calling out my neighbor for calling another one “resemblent of the greedy nature of the Jews” when I went to their house and I always argued with the lady who previously lived there who called Irish people micks. I’m always calling out the racist statements made against Arabs and Assyrians by my elitist mother and always am calling out the downright classicism and immigrant elitist attitudes of my parents.

What differs me from a lot of you is that I am very selective and carefully chose my battles and words. I realize that capitalist indoctrination has infected most normal people and that racism is normalized among the wider populace. But not all racist statements are the same and people’s complicated nature comes first. My prior boss is a great example as a black-passing Puerto Rican who kind of buys into slightly racist stereotypes like that black women have drama issues—which does not apply in that workplace with the customer base—or that black peoples bodies are “built differently” and says quite a few sexist things. In real life however he’s incredibly anti-racist as a guy with experience to racism, anti-sexist as someone who doesn’t like when women spoil him and does chorework and child care to help his family, and is otherwise a giant approachable teddy bear. I ultimately got fired from that job due to a misunderstanding that I awoke the worst in him, and guess what, that isn’t true because I’m always calling that bad behavior out. Another time I lost a peer because he was all afraid of a black person and covered for his racism by saying he likes punk rock, a supposedly racially-woke music choice with no baggage.

Unlike a lot of atlas, I can see the humanity of people and can look straight towards people. Of course on atlas and irl the truth is smeared as racist, antisemitic, spiteful, anti-American, and “an example of Cluster B personality”. I hold nothing sacred and using your identity cards on me isn’t going to work because as an immigrant I call out the motherland’s reactionary nonsense all the time. I know what bigotry and reactionary viewpoints look like and I know where it stems from in most people.

[SWE]

a non political Trumper 

What does this mean? If you’re a “Trumper”, you are by definition “political”.

POV: Your life is about politics.


Of course I would.

Why should I be friends with someone that I think is a bad person?

You think 74 million Americans are bad people?

Thats a good low ball yeah

[ProgressiveModerate]

Depends. Being a Trump supporter isn't inherently an insta-turnoff for being a potential friend, but there's a certain subset I would really struggle to see myself being friends with even if I tried.