Quote Originally Posted by KingFisher View Post
lol, 'plenty of those'. You make them sound like they are tools for your enjoyment and pleasure. Which is quite sad that you can only make friends based on the "same" political alignment". Did you know that you can make friends with different views and still be happy? It actually makes things much more enjoyable because you are not influenced by ignorance.
whoah man you sure read a bit too far into that one huh

Quote Originally Posted by DarkHalo003 View Post
Being on one side of the political scale is not a proper way to view politics though. You're not accounting for everyone else's opinions and beliefs, even if they are backward to you or have opinions that you find repulsive. Of course, go too far right and you have mind-washing Fascism. Go too far left and you have exploitable Communism. Point being, I believe having a conservative, yet flexible at appropriate times, approach to economics with a liberal, yet justified, sense of civil rights/liberties is proper. Being on one side means you're basically staying on your side of the fence and you don't give a damn about the other side, which when being a leader of any kind sets you up for disaster. I think being centralist makes more decisive sense since one relies more on research and information than emotion or tradition.
i have a lot of friends i don't agree with and a few i think have straight up terrible opinions, but i tolerate them because they tolerate me, so clearly i can trust them if we're so opposed yet get along.

on the other hand, i do not go out of my way to befriend people who love fascism or think that poors are RUINING ARE CUNTREE or whatever

also fuck centrists, bunch of do-nothing fence-sitters