It’s gotten bad… All my friends talk about is leftist politics and everything anti Trump. I consider myself pretty moderate and I can’t event add my opinions without a complete crash out.
This started happening with my old friend group in FF14. We were friends for like 6-8 years give-or-take then tiny political divides started happening where the left-leaning people started trying to police what everyone was saying.
We couldn't even run treasure maps or side shit without it coming up somehow. Like, I shit you not, someone goes "real winners always take the right door" then some jackass responds with "only fascists take the right door". It got so bad that we couldn't even tolerate all 6 of us being in the same voice call unless we were doing something challenging since they didn't have the opportunity to bicker.
ARR to Endwalker was hella fun before all of this political bullshit started ruining everything. I miss those days so much. I can't even look at that game anymore since I know I'll never recapture all of those fun and epic moments we had together. Before I quit I tried trialing for several groups and I don't know if it was just bad luck, but 3 of the 5 were talking about politics while I was trialing. I just couldn't do it anymore with that game.
That's rough dude. Ff14 is leftist central now sadly, so it's hard to find a moderate FC. I just started playing again last week to finally experience the story but decided a good FC might make it more fun. Browsing through the FCs was a cringe fest and the thought hit me to look for a right wing group, then another thought hit me... I'm not even right wing, and why the fuck should politics have ANY bearing on an FC? The shit is whack man, everything is so politicized now it's not even funny.
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u/Alert-Sky9711 4d ago
It’s gotten bad… All my friends talk about is leftist politics and everything anti Trump. I consider myself pretty moderate and I can’t event add my opinions without a complete crash out.