A word of advice. Which I can tell you already know from these comments but I still feel the need to reinerate.
Don't talk about it with them. They dont want to hear it. We aren't doing them any favors shoving it down their throats. Live and let live. Be the example. Not a mouth piece.
Another tip is to learn the art of remaining neutral. I have leftist friends I can totaly get along with because Im so good at remaining neutral.
Its not my true stance, and they know that, but I am able to see their point of view, or at least a neutral one, and pivot the conversation from there.
Them: "What do you think about Ukraine?"
Me: "both sides are garbage."
Them: "Fair point"
Vs
Me: "Putin is a white hat here to save us and Ukraine sells child sex slaves underground huurrrr!!!"
A little dramatic but thats really how we can come off with this stuff.
Its better to tell them things in a way normies can relate too, and not the full naked thruth. Or not bother them at all. Everything will be alright in the end. Have faith in that. And focus on yourself.
That's being disingenuous as a friend.
Let's say they asked you a question because they valued the friendship and respected your opinions, therefore, they wanted an honest answer. Yet, you gave them a politician's non-answer, typical of a fence-riding, compliant, whimsical, person with no true convictions. If anything, this would foster less trust.
Don't be so agreeable either. Challenge your relationships and mature with the relationships that are left. You don't need 100+ Facebook friends as your IRL friends. You don't have to share the "extremes" of the truth either. Just don't shut down a conversation with "both sides are garbage" and not expound on it.
You misunderstand me. I do feel like both sides are garbage. However, I think Putin is a thorn in the side of globalism. Id say that too if the convo went further.
I do tell them the truth. I just don't bombard them with it. Im willing to debate from the center, they know how I really feel.
If I can at least get them center of the MSM narrative, then thats big.
I don't have many friends. I have a handful of very close friends.
I respect them enough to treat them like adults and not preach at them like I am all knowing. (We could all very well be wrong. We must humble ourselves.)
And lastly. Some of them really hate politics. It just, stresses them out. They dont have to hear it. Im not here to save them. Thats gods work.
Spam texting your brother Q conspiracies when they dont even bring it up and probably dont have the mental energy to hear it because we all have lives going on, is toxic. No matter how right you are. Even if its the vaccine.
You can make your peace and warn them 100% (I have) but don't constantly beat them over it. Accept their adult decision, respect their wishes and move on to enjoy the time we do have together. As youd want them to do the same.
Ii is hard, to let go and let them make their own choices, I know. The right thing isn't easy.
I agree that ultimately we all can exercise our freedoms to make our own decisions but little do we know how much our decisions have already been tainted with outside influences. Can we be the good influences to balance the evil influences that our loved ones are exposed to daily?
Let's say you believe the vaccines are bad but you didn't bother to inform your brother. He decides to give his adult fully informed consent to getting the vaccine after being "inform" by Big Pharma and their friends. What if he was a healthcare worker and injected it into hundreds of others fully unaware of the consequences?
Perhaps similar would be a friend content on becoming a mercenary and flying over to Ukraine to fight for a cause that they were duped into believing in.
A word of advice. Which I can tell you already know from these comments but I still feel the need to reinerate.
Don't talk about it with them. They dont want to hear it. We aren't doing them any favors shoving it down their throats. Live and let live. Be the example. Not a mouth piece.
Another tip is to learn the art of remaining neutral. I have leftist friends I can totaly get along with because Im so good at remaining neutral.
Its not my true stance, and they know that, but I am able to see their point of view, or at least a neutral one, and pivot the conversation from there.
Them: "What do you think about Ukraine?"
Me: "both sides are garbage."
Them: "Fair point"
Vs
Me: "Putin is a white hat here to save us and Ukraine sells child sex slaves underground huurrrr!!!"
A little dramatic but thats really how we can come off with this stuff.
Its better to tell them things in a way normies can relate too, and not the full naked thruth. Or not bother them at all. Everything will be alright in the end. Have faith in that. And focus on yourself.
That's being disingenuous as a friend. Let's say they asked you a question because they valued the friendship and respected your opinions, therefore, they wanted an honest answer. Yet, you gave them a politician's non-answer, typical of a fence-riding, compliant, whimsical, person with no true convictions. If anything, this would foster less trust. Don't be so agreeable either. Challenge your relationships and mature with the relationships that are left. You don't need 100+ Facebook friends as your IRL friends. You don't have to share the "extremes" of the truth either. Just don't shut down a conversation with "both sides are garbage" and not expound on it.
You misunderstand me. I do feel like both sides are garbage. However, I think Putin is a thorn in the side of globalism. Id say that too if the convo went further.
I do tell them the truth. I just don't bombard them with it. Im willing to debate from the center, they know how I really feel.
If I can at least get them center of the MSM narrative, then thats big.
I don't have many friends. I have a handful of very close friends.
I respect them enough to treat them like adults and not preach at them like I am all knowing. (We could all very well be wrong. We must humble ourselves.)
And lastly. Some of them really hate politics. It just, stresses them out. They dont have to hear it. Im not here to save them. Thats gods work.
Spam texting your brother Q conspiracies when they dont even bring it up and probably dont have the mental energy to hear it because we all have lives going on, is toxic. No matter how right you are. Even if its the vaccine.
You can make your peace and warn them 100% (I have) but don't constantly beat them over it. Accept their adult decision, respect their wishes and move on to enjoy the time we do have together. As youd want them to do the same.
Ii is hard, to let go and let them make their own choices, I know. The right thing isn't easy.
I agree that ultimately we all can exercise our freedoms to make our own decisions but little do we know how much our decisions have already been tainted with outside influences. Can we be the good influences to balance the evil influences that our loved ones are exposed to daily?
Let's say you believe the vaccines are bad but you didn't bother to inform your brother. He decides to give his adult fully informed consent to getting the vaccine after being "inform" by Big Pharma and their friends. What if he was a healthcare worker and injected it into hundreds of others fully unaware of the consequences?
Perhaps similar would be a friend content on becoming a mercenary and flying over to Ukraine to fight for a cause that they were duped into believing in.