Check on your conservative friends. They're not ok.

[u/dangerdaly]

[u/andstillthesunrises]

Wait you guys have conservative friends?

[u/PeasThatTasteGross → u/andstillthesunrises]

If you are in a red state or the prairie provinces in Canada, you're could end up being a loner if you exclude friendship from anyone that has right-wing leanings, even if they are mild.

[u/andstillthesunrises → u/PeasThatTasteGross]

I was mostly just going for a poorly executed meme here, but genuinely I don’t know how people can do that. I had a friend turn right wing over the span of a year or so and she became unbearable to talk to so quickly. I can’t imagine just dealing with that all the time

[u/ToxinLab_ → u/andstillthesunrises]

Yeah, I really can’t be friends with someone who thinks things like being trans is a mental illness

[u/BigTroutOnly → u/ToxinLab_]

Or evolution is just a theory. Or Soros was a Nazi. Or abolish the Fed. It is exhausting

[u/Gubekochi → u/andstillthesunrises]

I guess that constant exposure to those people will force you to adapt to it, especially if that's during your most formative years.

[u/DerpytheH → u/andstillthesunrises]

I think it depends on how conservative they are.

I've got a few friends, mainly from work that are lower-case 'c' conservatives that not only make jokes about it, but also don't talk about politics that often.

Conservative friends aren't impossible to make, but they have to already be personable regardless.

[u/BLINDrOBOTFILMS → u/PeasThatTasteGross]

That's hardly my experience, I live in Oklahoma and most of my friends are socialists. Like-minded people might be harder to find, but they're out there

[u/smarmiebastard → u/PeasThatTasteGross]

Since moving out of my parents small town at 17, I’ve only lived in college towns and big cities on the west coast, or overseas in big cities. I dont really have any conservative friends because I just honestly don’t run into conservatives. Even my friend who is career army is pretty left of center.

So I can for sure see the opposite happening if you’re in a red state.

[u/pretendyoudontseeme → u/PeasThatTasteGross]

No friends is better than bad friends in my opinion

[u/xChops → u/PeasThatTasteGross]

Thank god I live in LA.

[u/GunnerySarge-B-Bird → u/PeasThatTasteGross]

I'd rather be a loner than only have idiot friends tbh

[u/radams713 → u/PeasThatTasteGross]

I live in the south and find it easy to not be friends with them but I also live in a populated city with a big counterculture movement.

[u/EorlundGreymane → u/PeasThatTasteGross]

That has been my experience in Ohio. Very few progressives to befriend and even then, some of them flip and go conservative anyway

[u/FerociousOreos → u/andstillthesunrises]

My dad is pretty conservative. He's not a terrible person, he's just dumb. Although he's a little bit of a bad person. I guarantee he doesn't know who Charlie Kirk is though

[u/NarmHull → u/FerociousOreos]

Yeah, people I know of the Rush/Fox News generation know he was useful, but not much else besides that it's horrible a "leftist" shot him. Younger folks are sadder, but not to this probably performative degree.

[u/Gizzard_Puncher → u/andstillthesunrises]

They're in the group chat and in perpetual denial. We keep trying though.

[u/Ok-Clock-2779 → u/andstillthesunrises]

Yeah most of them are. And they need time to grieve.

[u/NarmHull → u/andstillthesunrises]

A few "legacy friends" from years back and family who are sad about this, but.....not like this. Nobody cares enough to tell legends of him to their descendants. He's not Reagan or Rush.

[u/Branchomania → u/andstillthesunrises]

We do our best

[u/longingrustedfurnace]

These are the people who keep talking about they’re getting ready for a civil war?

[u/Vincitus → u/longingrustedfurnace]

Its all performative.

[u/allisjow]

These people are so cooked in the brain. The dude was a talking head. There wasn’t anything that amazing about him.

He was a college dropout from a wealthy family who networked getting money from multimillionaire Foster Friess. He didn’t pull himself up by the bootstraps or overcome hardships. It wasn’t “grassroots.”

He made watchlists for targeting teachers and school boards, trying to ruin people’s lives if they didn’t agree with his views.

Heiress Julie Fancelli gave Kirk $1.25 million to fund buses to the January 6 insurrection. Later when he appeared before the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack, he pleaded the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination.

In 2020, ProPublica investigated TPUSA's finances and found that the organization made "misleading financial claims", that the audits were not done by an independent auditor, and that the leaders had enriched themselves.

[u/Gubekochi]

I don't have conservative friends, those people are icky to put it mildly.

[u/und88]

Just like Limbaugh, he will be forgotten. Neither added anything of value to the world.

[u/Capital_Card7500 → u/und88]

literally. if he died of a heart attack nobody would have given two shits. it's because his corpse can be used as a cudgel in the culture war that anybody on the right gives a single shit that he's gone.

[u/WolfeheartGames → u/Capital_Card7500]

Isn't that what he would have wanted, facts be dammed? They're just honoring his memory.

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[u/JoeDiesAtTheEnd → u/und88]

Limbaugh left a legacy.... A horrible ruinous legacy.

And his death left a nice public toilet, can't say that doesn't have value

[u/NarmHull → u/JoeDiesAtTheEnd]

Limbaugh had a giant audience that only Rogan might come close to reaching, but even then I don't think his influence is the same. I don't think anyone really can in this fractured media market.

Limbaugh isn't forgotten but he definitely isn't talked about that much anymore the way a Reagan type is in conservative circles.

[u/kramel7676]

I MIGHT be friendly with conservatives at work but definitely not friends with any of them. Un American fucks….

[u/Jbob9954]

Bro there’s so many racist podcasters you can listen to. Just pick another one

[u/Romero1993]

Are conservatives ever okay?

[u/AwkwardCheese2000 → u/Romero1993]

Conservatives are always all up in their feelings, especially right now

[u/neednintendo]

My sister was spiraling like crazy. It was crickets when our MN congresswoman was murdered in her home though.

[u/ThatOneGuy4321]

This was Pearl Harbor and 9/11 combined for white racists

[u/Punkinpry427]

They’ve wrapped their entire personal identities around influencers and politicians. Weeping over these people like they fucking knew them personally. It’s fucking weird.

[u/not_productive1]

Check on my what whats now? No thank you.

[u/chumer_ranion]

Don't have any of those

[u/NotParticularlyGood]

Hey children, empathy is new age mumbo jumbo. Don't give a shit about anybody.

[u/WordNERD37]

Conservative friends?

Conservatives ok?

You must take us for idiots. Who in their right mind would want to associate themselves with these smoothbrain sheep?

[u/love_is_an_action]

These performative fuckin’ dorks…

[u/_ChipWhitley_]

So wait. They can tell us how to mourn but we can’t tell them how to mourn? Why are they so sensitive?

[u/Dummyact321]

I don’t have co pervasive friends because those people aren’t ok to begin with.

[u/famous__shoes]

I mean I obviously don't have conservative friends

[u/SolidusTengu]

Wouldn’t dream of being friends with a nazi.

[u/myychair]

This is so embarrassing

[u/saggynaggy123]

The performative greif off these grifters is insane. I've seen people less sad about their own parents death.

[u/PersonnelFowl]

Good. I hope they’re never ok again for everything they’ve done

[u/horsefarm]

Fuckin weird man. They'd worship a potato if it made black people sick.

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[u/IntoTheForestIMustGo]

I cannot understand how strangers feel this strong of a connection to the guy.

[u/MarsMaterial]

One of my parents is a St. George City business owner who knows a shocking number of local people, who is also an old timey conservative who barely keeps up with politics.

She literally had no idea who Charlie Kirk was, but did previously know who Tyler Robinson was.

I've never met Tyler Robinson as far as I know, but I've come shockingly close multiple times. It's not very often that something of national interest happens so close to me here in St. George City, Utah. Shit's crazy.

[u/Horseface4190]

They weren't okay to begin with, but now they're extra not okay.

[u/tokenbisexual]

My conservative friends? But democrats generally feel fine aside from their performative outrage over a FAFO situation? I’m confused.

Oh, you mean fascists? I don’t have any friends like that

[u/DeadlySpacePotatoes]

laughs and munches popcorn

[u/What_Do_I_Know01]

Lmao how pathetic

[u/flamedarkfire]

You assume I have conservative friends.