My FB feed is going to kill me...

[glitzy07]

Until the presidential election is over.  It baffles me how many people I am friends with who hold VASTLY different political/social views than I do.  I just keep hiding the ones who are posting ridiculous shit (luckily none have been outright inflammatory and gross, I just don't understand how they can think the way they do).

Currently there is someone posting over and over about how Planned Parenthood was caught selling aborted baby parts.  I just can't even.  I rarely engage in anything political on FB but I'm so tempted to start posting articles or something in response to her.  Anyone have anything good to post in relation to this?

[glitzy07]

Jul 28, 2015 13:02:56 GMT -5 @this said:

Oh, I unfriended someone just last week over that exact thing.

I didn't do it that time, but I have in the past sent a private message very nicely explaining why I'm unfriending them. lol

I might actually do that with this person (unfriend them, not tell them why though).  She's really just an acquaintance anyway (the good friend of one of my good friends).

I hid H's cousin a few weeks ago because she is like a crazy Glenn Beck style Republican and was the only person in my entire feed who had a negative reaction to the Supreme Court gay marriage decision.  She never actually posted anything negative, but liked a ton of the religious-y articles that were against the decision.  I didn't unfriend her, because she's family, but DUDE am I having a hard time not hating her.

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I've been unfriending/unfollowing people for weeks already. I look at this as a good time to slim down the friends list.

[niq]

I keep wishing I had friends who were sane Republicans. I know they exist, but all I get is Benghazi and Ben Carson (?!?!) and drug tests for welfare recipients and Obama hasn't travelled to Chattanooga because he hates the troops and "now is not the time to divide the nation by bringing up gun control" and blah blah blah.

I think I have one Sane Republican friend, and a cousin who is conservative but just doesn't talk politics much.

On the plus side, my racist extended family members no longer cite Bill Cosby as an authority on how African-Americans should dress and talk.

[kangaroo11]

I actually like having the nutsos in my feed so I know what they're doing and can avoid them. Like the anti-vaxxer who is friends with my normal friends.

[jeaniebueller]

My mom is a Trump supporter. That is all.

[glitzy07]

Jul 28, 2015 13:19:42 GMT -5 niq said:

I keep wishing I had friends who were sane Republicans. I know they exist, but all I get is Benghazi and Ben Carson (?!?!) and drug tests for welfare recipients and Obama hasn't travelled to Chattanooga because he hates the troops and "now is not the time to divide the nation by bringing up gun control" and blah blah blah.

I think I have one Sane Republican friend, and a cousin who is conservative but just doesn't talk politics much.

On the plus side, my racist extended family members no longer cite Bill Cosby as an authority on how African-Americans should dress and talk.

THIS.  Honestly, my husband is definitely more Republican/conservative on most issues.  I think we'll probably always be a split household, which drives me crazy.  But at least he can carry on a sane conversation without completely alienating the other side and making you want to throat punch him (well, most days...), and is willing to entertain the other side's point of view.

[mrsfarmer]

I have my brother hidden. He posts so much contradictory stuff it's mind boggling. Dude, go smoke your weed and go away! Ex: he proclaims to be anti-government and Libertarian all the while posting he lives in subsidized housing and finally got his SNAP card in the mail.

[bowies]

I think Sane Republicans are independents now. I would be too.

[chw57]

I have been paring down my friend list over the last few years and it's basically a blissful echo chamber now

[estrellita]

I just deleted a couple people without explaining myself. One was posting completely sexist things and then in the next post he was saying he was such a "nice guy" and why can't he find a girl? The other is a middle class white male that thinks we need "straight/white pride" and was posting a million things supporting the confederate flag. He's posted some questionable things before but after all that I couldn't deal with it any more!

Also, my GMIL is "intrigued" by Trump. She also believes everything anyone says on Fox News and other obnoxiously conservative sites/shows. 

[sweetday]

I probably annoy people on my feed. :/

I'm very vocal about the things that I dont like and Trump has been high on that list lately.

[Deleted]

Yeah my BIL is a HUGE Donald Trump supporter. It's painful.

[niq]

Jul 28, 2015 13:39:57 GMT -5 bowies said:

I think Sane Republicans are independents now. I would be too.

Some of them are. Some of them just don't pay much attention unless an election is coming soon.

[drloretta]

I've already hidden some feeds after the last election. And I unfriended a mom posting inflammatory stuff

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Jul 28, 2015 14:19:09 GMT -5 estrellita said:

I just deleted a couple people without explaining myself. One was posting completely sexist things and then in the next post he was saying he was such a "nice guy" and why can't he find a girl? The other is a middle class white male that thinks we need "straight/white pride" and was posting a million things supporting the confederate flag. He's posted some questionable things before but after all that I couldn't deal with it any more!

Also, my GMIL is "intrigued" by Trump. She also believes everything anyone says on Fox News and other obnoxiously conservative sites/shows. 

Yeah, I had someone use TheGospelCoalition dot com as a source today. She was serious. I removed her from my existence (i.e. blocked her on FB).