A conversation with a "conservative" in a video game
Last night, I'm playing Star Wars Battlefront.
A political conversation was happening as I entered the room. Admittedly it's not often I get to hear a conservative speak about politics in their own terms but here I was.
I wasn't alone, there was another ally on that exchanged dialogue with the conservative. And admittedly we weren't all shouting at each other, we would disagree and easily bring up a counterpoint that would then cause the "conservative" to switch gears/topics.
I heard things from... "Hillary should be in prison and she kills people" to "Obama is a waste of flesh that fucked everything up and wasted all his time and our money playing golf" to "Bernie Sanders is the god emperor of fake news and if he were elected we'd be bankrupt the next day. He also has 2500 outstanding civil suits against him."
You may be wondering how I and the ally countered this stuff.
To the Hillary quips: "But Trump himself said it wasn't a big deal anymore and he didn't care about locking her up. Plus, Trump is hosting confidential meetings in public at the Mar a Lago."
To the Obama quips "Trump has played over 12 games of golf in his first 60 something days. Obama played none during that. Also, Trump is wasting millions of my tax dollars staying at mara Lago while his wife is in NYC."
To the Bernie quip: "if you really think Bernie would have bankrupted us, you didn't research or read his policies. Fake news emperor? You've now lost ALLLLLL credibility." PLUS, I googled that 2500 civil suits accusation later on. Doesn't even show on google. Wtf
They also stated things like, "at least Trump is working the budget correctly by putting money into the core programs like the military." I asked, "what are the other important core programs because the military seems to be the only one to him."
They said free healthcare could never ever work because how would doctors get paid? I would say, "other nations are doing it fine" they would reply "but look how expensive it is to live there" to which I easily stated, "their people can afford it though because their economy isn't devoted to the military complex and other BS"
In the end though I was GENUINELY surprised when the "conservative" said the following...
"I will agree though that Trump really has to change his position on climate change."
I was like, "I am elated to see that you at least have that opinion."
To which he replied, "well yeah you can't deny science"
Well that's a glimmer of light I guess lol
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