I have a couple friends like that, we talk about our differences, but we don't try and convert the other person, or make them feel bad for liking one thing over another.

I regularly talk to some people who have stupid beliefs and interests in shit like Joe Rogan and terrible MRA and religious beliefs. But they’re also some of the few people who are authentic and who I can be authentic and have conversations about the strangest, esoteric shit from history, religion, and politics

They’re still not my friends though. Acquittances, sure. The only reason why I don’t make them feel bad for their beliefs is because I likely still need their assistance until we inevitably part ways.

Elsewhere, I’ve completely cut off people who I thought were friends who weren’t communist or any of those things in the list - some even conservative or military vets - but after they joined the military industrial complex and government security, they seized being any friend of mine. At most I’ll send a text here and there, maybe get some dinner once or twice a year. But they will never be my friend as long as they contribute to these evils, not even out of necessity, but because it pays a lot.

I don’t debate these people because my words don’t mean anything compared to their experiences with religion and the holy paycheck. Maybe the weirdo libertarians in the beginning of the post, but there isn’t a single soul out there who just quits their job because a buddy said their employer is genocidal. And I’m saying that as someone who planned on joining the MIC/security state in my teens and early college. Had I been a bit smarter to graduate early and form more connections to get an MIC/state security job, or dumb enough to join the military, I would be no different than these people, and I would likely see nothing wrong with this world as long as i make money.

Some things are simply too fundamental for me to just “agree to disagree.”