I learned a long time ago that having good relationships with my friends is far more important to me than showing them that I’m right. I’m perfectly ok with trading a pursuit of the truth (since it’s political, this should probably be “the truth”) in exchange for some utilions. I’ve hidden all the controversial or clickbaity topics from my facebook feed, and facebook’s algorithm doesn’t show me these any more. If I’m really jonesing for an argument, I’ll go somewhere where there’s structure for it and it won’t damage my personal relationships, such as /r/changemyview.
I learned a long time ago that having good relationships with my friends is far more important to me than showing them that I’m right. I’m perfectly ok with trading a pursuit of the truth (since it’s political, this should probably be “the truth”) in exchange for some utilions. I’ve hidden all the controversial or clickbaity topics from my facebook feed, and facebook’s algorithm doesn’t show me these any more. If I’m really jonesing for an argument, I’ll go somewhere where there’s structure for it and it won’t damage my personal relationships, such as /r/changemyview.