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Culture War Roundup for the week of September 19, 2022

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You can make it work, but why would you want to? Date someone who aligns with you on core values. I don't bother letting leftists into my life, and it's better for everyone that way: I don't need to deal with them, and they don't need to deal with me.

I've been with my girl for the better part of a decade. We met early twenties, and now I'm a gray-bearded, prematurely-bald thirty-something. She was more leftist when we first met, but not left-wing. Had she been, I don't think we'd have ever moved past the initial idle flirtation stage. Strong political disagreements is such an immense obstacle and even if you can tolerate each other god forbid you try to start a family.

Interesting to see what gets downvoted. Parent comment sitting at -5 as I write this.

On the subreddit where scores were hidden, negative scores were very rare. I wonder if it's a difference in the audience or the system.

On the subreddit where scores were hidden, negative scores were very rare. I wonder if it's a difference in the audience or the system.

I was just thinking the same thing.

You shouldn't look for any greater patterns in my vote tallies -- I post enough controversial positions that my vote tallies really only speak for people's opinions on me, and not their opinions on my posts.

Very high opinion of your own notoriety I see

"I am mildly inflammatory to enough people on a small forum that you shouldn't use me to measure the rest of the forum" isn't exactly a lofty claim.

Definitely isn't true for me, I don't recognize your username and I upvoted your post here ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I'm not saying it goes for every vote, but I am saying if you want to make any conclusions about this place someone else would be a better sample.

A counterargument would be that no one will align with you on all values. At some point, you're not the other person, so you will disagree on things relating to how you deal with the world. Where is it you draw the line? It may not exactly matter. When you're living with someone and sharing everything with them, you're bound to have disagreements that can drive you crazy that you need to learn to live with.

When you're living with someone and sharing everything with them, you're bound to have disagreements that can drive you crazy that you need to learn to live with.

Are you? I know I'm pretty fortunate, but I have no disagreements with my wife that drive me crazy. Every topic that we've debated and disagreed on is something I have no problem moving on from.

I said "who aligns with you on core values", necessarily indicating that disagreement on non-core values is negotiable. That's the line: values important enough to you that you will not compromise on them.

It all depends on what we mean by politics. Sense 1 is the "soap opera", the sport, the thing on TV, ie you may disagree on which talking head you like when watching TV together. That's the trivial sense, where differences don't matter so much, and you can make do by just not watching the political soap opera together.

Sense 2 is politics as it applies to everyday decisions and behavior. But this would be better called a cultural clash, similar to people from different cultural/national backgrounds marrying,and having to negotiate a common way of life both can agree to. But such differences could also (perhaps more commonly) arise due to personality and temperamental differences.

Sure. Political differences are like cultural clashes. In which case, same answer: yeah, you can make it work, but it's sure a lot easier to not have to.

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