BadFish
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[Politics] How do you deal with people obsessed with political views?
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GrizzlingGammon
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Rub it on your little chappy and hope for the best?
portlock seagull
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Makes for a harmonious world?!!
While they're talking to you instead of looking them in the eyes look intently at the top of their head as if something's caught your attention. I can guarantee it will make them lose their train of thought and eventually they'll ask you if there's something wrong with their hair or something.
When they do, just say "no nothing", and ask them to continue with what they were saying while you continue to stare at their head. Eventually they'll start to get paranoid and insist you tell them what's wrong with their hair.
By using this strategy it's them who have made the decision to change the subject matter rather than you having to ask them to.
You can use the staring intently at the top of the head trick for most subjects, not just politics.
When they do, just say "no nothing", and ask them to continue with what they were saying while you continue to stare at their head. Eventually they'll start to get paranoid and insist you tell them what's wrong with their hair.
By using this strategy it's them who have made the decision to change the subject matter rather than you having to ask them to.
You can use the staring intently at the top of the head trick for most subjects, not just politics.
Have we met? Sounds just like my father-in-law!
Sorry to hear that you have a selfish family member.
The only solution is to give them the big lecture about family being more important than politics and in fact any difference of opinion and if they continue to annoy you they are jeopardizing the family.
Same applies to all immutable insistencies. Insistency is not acceptable in family society.
One of our pals had to cut out a family member from the family WhatsApp when, during Covid, they became anti-Vaxy in extremis.
Put your mental health at the top of your priorities because without it you are no use to anyone.
This is: old people with undiagnosed autism.
My dad was just the same.
As are my brothers.
As am I. But I have just about enough insight to not be a relentlessly boring old **** all the time. These days. Ahem.
- Oct 17, 2008
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I’m a bit further right than one of my good mates, and he used to get quite het up (he was a big Corbyn fan) so we basically agreed to never discuss politics. Simple!
Family and long term friends over the years often had different politics to mine at the time, perhaps some p-taking back in the day, but we never fell out over it. I did come across a couple of ultra aggressive lefties, one at uni who was a snide rather than open, another at work years later but we got on well about most other things.
The polarisation and 24-7 political obsessives has come with social media.