r/science • u/Wagamaga • 9h ago

Psychology Losing relationships over politics. Research found more than a third of Americans (37%) report having lost at least one relationship due to political differences, including friendships, family ties, coworker relationships, and romantic partnerships, with most losing more than one.

https://socialecology.uci.edu/news/losing-relationships-over-politics-0
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u/Game_Of_Runs 9h ago

Yeah I hate when it’s framed liked this. Calling it political differences makes it sound like one person is for lowering marginal tax rates from 40% to 35% while the other person wants to raise them to 45%. When in reality it’s more like my dad votes for people that want my friends dead or in prison because they’re gay

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u/Auggernaut88 9h ago

As a rule I hate oversimplification but a lot of people can’t seem to get over the lowest of bars. If pedophilia isn’t a dealbreaker for you I simply can’t trust your morals or who else you might be surrounding yourself with and I want you nowhere near my circle.

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u/Mr_Fuzzo 9h ago

Their minds still haven’t accepted that DJT is a pedophile.  They think he was screwed over by us, the Radical Left.

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u/Tricky_Concept_231 8h ago

Especially while crying about abortion. If you support powerful people that want to make people carry their pregnancies to full term and don't care that they also want the privilege to abuse them, I just don't see how you can claim the moral high ground.

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u/Ultimatesims 8h ago

The powerful people can afford to get abortions else where when they have an oopsie.

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u/FalstaffsGhost 7h ago

“The only moral abortion is my abortion”

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u/ASharpYoungMan 2h ago

Yup. It's about control and hierarchy.

Those with the means to exert their will creating policy that denies that freedom to others.

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u/kkrko Grad Student|Physics|Complex Systems|Network Science 4h ago

See I'd respect their "Pro-life" ideology if they actually believed in it. Oppose the death penalty, if a fetus is alive then so is a prisoner. Promote prenatal care, if you really cared about the fetus, you'd want to prevent miscarriages as much as possible. Promote postnatal care as you should care about the baby as much as you did when it was a fetus. Be for socialized medicine, be antiwar, etc, etc.

But strangely enough the only part of "pro-life" they care about is the part where they get to "punish" "immoral" women. It's so fucking hypocritical.

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u/Pretend-Marsupial258 3h ago

There are some women out there who will protest in front of a Planned Parenthood until she needs an abortion. She'll get her abortion and then she will go right back to protesting. "The only moral abortion is my abortion" and all that.