@ar Well in this hypothetical you have no idea if this individual respects scientific fact or human rights... the poll is about if all you know is they are a republican.

And for the record im not prorepublicanism, i lean left of center for sure... But not for nothing Biden literally started his career being pro-segregation. He only changed his stance when it effected his vote decades later and now panders to the democrats without **ever** appologizing or showing remorse or wrong doing in his pro-segregation stance.

So if I were to judge people the way you do (and I dont) then the democrats and republicans both look plenty worth blocking on sight.

@freemo I have yet to see someone who openly identifies as republican (in the usa, not uk, sense) or conservative, who didn't try to push anti-trans lies, limit bodily autonomy of about half of the human population, force religion-based school programs (most notably, creationism), or general anti-vaccine bs.

I have seen many democrats guilty of the same things, but that's a lot less prevalent among them from what I can see.

@ar You ever think you might be seeing the post hoc ergo procter hoc fallacy? With so many people blocking them or assuming they are bad people on sight, then the ones who are truely bad people dont care, they will get blocked anyway for their views even if they dont mention being republican, so they have no extra consequences to being public about being republican.

On the flip side a good person who isnt any of those things but is a republican isnt likely to get blocked since, well, they have good-hearted views and thus, knowing they will be assumed to be harteful of they admit to being republican, is far far less likely to bringup politics at all and may even hide how they vote when asked directly by skirting the topic.

I mean, to be fair, I find most republicans to be, more or less, what you describe too...that said I find democrats just as intolerable just for very different set of reasons, one of which is their prejudice against pretty much everythign other than minorities, something that is very noticable whent hey start talking about dog whistles.

@freemo I've had people who I thought were my friends for 10+ years who identified as center-right on the european political/sociological spectrum (which is, generally, more left-ish than US), who turned out to very much not be my friends and had to cut them out of my life, so no - I don't think I'm falling into at the very least that particular fallacy.

@ar

2 people not being friendly for you and needing to be cut out of your life and being republican is hardly a good argument... I mean 2 isnt a very high number.. I mean I had 2 black people who wound up not being my friend once and I had to cut them off, I dont assume all black people are bad cause I've had that happen..

@freemo Now you're assuming my opinions/decisions stem from just the personal experiences.

@ar I never said anything of the case.. just pointing out your personal expiernce doesnt seem to be a compelling data point.

@josephholsten i feel that!