How do you deal with right wing friends who post stupid shit on facebook

[groundloop]

I normally get so pissed off at some of the stupid crap that gets posted that I simply ignore it, If I did respond I'd probably just make an ass out of myself. I'm sure that I could have more chance on influencing someone who happens to see it if I could come up with an intelligent, well worded, positive response but I'm normally not too good at that.

So.... anyone care to share some examples? (The most recent stupid r/w crap that has me steamed is something to the effect that President Obama is giving away all of "their" stuff to deadbeats.)

[shenmue]

1. Post facts

And if that doesn't help, stop reading them.

[hollysmom]

2. And if you can't stand looking at their crap but you can't delete them, block their posts. n/m

[OffWithTheirHeads]

3. I have no "right wing friends".

I simply will not suffer fools.

[KG]

4. 'un-friend' - I don't have r/w friends

[99Forever]

30. You got that right. n/t

[napkinz]

5. have you seen this?

[mokawanis]

6. I pretty much ignore those posts

I just have a long-standing rule that I'm not going to argue politics on Facebook. If I did, it would put a strain on my relationships with friends and family. Face to face is different. I will respond to stupid crap and Obama Derangement Syndrome type comments in real time face to face encounters with friends and family.

[loyalsister]

7. scroll

But, I usually don't forget when someone posts dumb shit. I put some of them on my liberal post list in order to return the favor.

[abelenkpe]

8. Hide the news feed of right wing friends

That way you don't see their posts. If they are the type to comment on all your posts and are annoying you with right wing buttery every time you post even the most unpolitical thing, then it's time for unfriend and/or blocking.

[sakabatou]

9. AFAIK, no one has posted right-wing BS on my wall

[Cha]

10. I don't have any rw friends but my son is more tolerant and lets them in even though

he is a strong supporter of the President. He debates them with facts and patience. I get on and pile on the facts and at laugh at their fox "news" talking points.

I don't spend too much time doing that..I have better things to do.. but, when I do see it.. and can't resist I do the research. Like last night when this one person was laughing about Dems running away from Obama. Turns out it's overplayed and I had a ton of pics and facts of PBO campaigning with DEMS.

Imagine that, groundloop.

[Oilwellian]

11. You can block the right wing sites as they come along

Go to drop down box in the right corner of the post and click ignore (the name of the right wing site is usually listed.) As time goes on, you'll see very little of the crap you speak of.

[safeinOhio]

14. they unfriend me when

I reply with a fact check story that debunks theirs.

[Phlem]

16. It's like the garbage takes itself out.

[safeinOhio]

18. Other times I'll

drag and drop a cartoon on whatever the subject is from DU.

[Phlem]

23. Nice.

[Phlem]

40. You know I'm totally doing this from now on.

[MFM008]

12. There are a couple

so i post stuff I know will be offensive.

[pangaia]

13. I don't leave ANY political posts or comments on my FB page.

Any of that happens, they are toast.Gets cut from my feed also..

[Phlem]

15. I think there's a setting you switch

So stay friends there post are hidden on your site. If they're obnoxious about it I just unfriend them. Life's to short.

[TlalocW]

17. I'm pre-emptive

I routinely post new things that start off with POLITICS! so anyone who doesn't like my views can skip that post.

TlalocW

[sawdust]

20. Copy & paste under comments

http://pleasecutthecrap.com/obama-accomplishments/

[shenmue]

29. Thank you

[Blue_In_AK]

21. I don't have any right-wing friends,

just a few off-the-charts relatives that I ignore.

[oldandhappy]

22. If they annoy you,

unfriend them. If they really are friends, hide posts and comments. I sometimes wonder who is going to unfriend me! Put this up a week ago -- http://jeff61b.hubpages.com/hub/14-Facts-About-The-Obama-Presidency-That-Most-People-Dont-Know

[Brigid]

24. I take the "scorched earth" approach:

No facebook. It makes me a luddite, maybe, but ask me if I care.

[nc4bo]

25. Post facts and if that fails just tell the truth; this is some stupid shit.

And if they are just so far out there where you deem them unreachable.........UNfriend.

I've done this exactly twice.

[Historic NY]

26. Block them, then they complain my e-mail is bouncing...

I tell them it must be something on their end, it works fine.

[RKP5637]

27. Find other friends, many aren't worth it! n/t

[hobbit709]

28. I don't have any RW friends.

[Iris]

31. I hide the posts. And then sometimes I fill out the Facebook survey and express that the posts are

offensive.

Yeah. I'm happy to make my filter bubble stronger.

[Marrah_G]

32. I just don't have any

I had one person who went all teaparty gun nut after newtown, so I just took him off my friends list.

[JustAnotherGen]

33. Remove them from my feed

I only have two people like that though. I have Conservative friends that are absolutely disgusted by the racism and in particular - sexism in the Republican party. They are the first people to like a post when I rarely post something political to my page.

My friend Richie voted for Ken Kaplan - the Libertarian candidate in the NJ Senate race last go round. He posts the nastiest things about Ted Cruz, Gohmert, etc etc

[abbeyco]

34. Post facts and then move on

No need to get the trolls involved - they're already likely invested in the dope for which they're going to vote. Ignore and move on from that - they're not worth your time unless someone posts something outrageous.
I sent the FBI a post by a high school friend who wanted to kill Obama after the 2012 election; he was dumb enough to post it so I screen captured it and let the authorities do their work.

[Live and Learn]

35. I don't do Facebook so I don't have to see any silly stuff any friend might post. nt

[X_Digger]

36. Life is too short. I un-friend.

Of course, I only actually add people that I expect to interact with.

I'm brutal- if I don't interact with someone in 6 months, they're gone. Even family. I've got cousins four or five states over whose friend requests I've deleted because I know they're right-wing morons.

[Bigmack]

37. I have a lot of former students as FB friends...

I post a lot of political stuff.

I don't have to dump them. I know I've had 5 or 6 of them dump me. They tried arguing, but that "fact" and "numbers" thing just pisses them off and they go away.

I dumped one guy who is so paranoid that he thinks that the Sandy Hook massacre and the recent shooting in Marysville, WA were faked... or a black flag operation designed to take our guns away.

[closeupready]

38. It's sad, but I've unfriended a couple like that.

Sad in the sense that one would have hoped that over time, some of these former friends would have grown smarter or more compassionate, but instead they seem cold, hardened, heartless, bigoted. I just can't.

When it's family, though, I simply "unfollow". That takes them out of my news feed entirely.

[drray23]

39. if they are extreme rwingers

they can not be my friend. It is that simple. I have enough things going on in life not to have it ruined by people that have extreme positions. Why would I be friend with people I do not share any values with ?

[onecaliberal]

41. Unfriend

[fishwax]

42. I tend to ignore it

I don't argue politics on facebook very much. I'll make a comment here and there on threads started by friends who post a lot of political stuff, but generally in support of things I agree with rather than worrying about the stupid shit.

[linuxman]

43. By going on with your life?

[ismnotwasm]

44. If there is a source

I block the source-- it makes things so easier, even if FB wants to know 'why' --if they post random bullshit I ignore it-- and so do most of my friends. I had no idea I had so many RW friends, guess I never discussed politics with them. By and large my friends are liberal. There this one libertarian dude who is clearly not used to be talked back to with reasonable, factual discussion. I'm surprised he hasn't unfriended me. He says some stupid shit, and I just can't help but respond

[davidpdx]

46. Yeah I have one person currently who posts things from certain sources

If the person isn't directly talking about politics, that is a good way to deal with it. You can kind of separate it from other stuff.

I know of at least 2 Republicans and 1 Libertarian on my list of 95 that I can think of. Many of them I'm not sure and won't ask because I'd probably rather not know.

[davidpdx]

45. Not very well I will admit

A few years ago I had two on my list. One was someone I've known a long time (going back to the mid-90's) and though I've never met her we were good friends. She had been pretty liberal up until 2008 and then after Obama was elected she just went slowly downhill. I ended up getting in rather large fights with her on Facebook and I said some pretty nasty things and then blocked her.

The other person was actually a friend of hers who is mentally unstable and a real fucking teabagger. After awhile I unfriended her, but didn't block her. One of my other friends is friends with her and apparently he was talking about the differences in the South since the Civil War and she just went off on him. He is not American, he's Swedish (and a real nice guy). After this happened he sent me a message and talked to me about it because he was really upset. I told him just to unfriend her. I guess she turned around and apologized. I just checked and it looks like he finally got sick of her and did that.

[cherokeeprogressive]

47. Unfollow, no need to unfriend.

[Ex Lurker]

48. I don't post about politics, and I refrain from commenting on others' posts,

regardless of whether I agree or disagree. It's just better that way. A facebook post isn't going to change my mind, and probably won't change theirs. Living where I do, most of the people I know are more conservative than I am. If I only associated with like minded people, I'd be pretty isolated.

[meadowlark5]

49. I hide them or unfollow them, I guess, is what it's called now

If it's mild republican stuff that's just their thought or point of view, I don't care. But that hateful, in your face, tea bagger type republican stuff, they get hid. Just hid one a couple of weeks ago. Posting ridiculous "sky is falling" posts about ISIS and ebola all wrapped up in this end of the world drama.

My FB news feed is quite pleasant now since I've gotten rid of the extreme nuts.

[KMOD]

50. I think you need to get off the internet and facebook

Ebola is spreading rapidly there. Be careful.

In fact, I think you are already exhibiting the initial symptoms. Good luck, and get well soon.

[alp227]

51. Send that crap to this blog

http://myrightwingdad.blogspot.com/

Many great comments that debunk right wing nonsense memes. I think this kind of content has done far more damage in political discourse than Fox News or talk radio could ever dream of.

[Populist_Prole]

54. Excellent site

[Douglas Carpenter]

52. I rarely if ever comment - but I will post something liberal to counter.. I did have one childhood

acquaintance who would constantly want to argue - but he was an idiot. Then he would get insulting and I would just ignore him. Then he started personally insulting liberal friends of mine who responded to him - then I unfriended him.

[sweetloukillbot]

53. I have one I can have intelligent discussions with...

Sometimes I'll engage him, and we'll argue a bit. Other times I just roll my eyes and shake my head at what he posts.

But another friend enjoyed playing the troll game, just because he likes winding up liberals, and when I called him on his b/s he ended up defriending me (this has led to some rather amusing situations with mutual friends).

That friend's brother was another close friend, although we'd drifted apart over the past 10 years. Had been a pacifist pothead hippie type on the Green side of the Left Wing. He'd recently got on FB and reached out to me and several other mutual friends.
He then proceeded to start chastising a female friend about how all women need to carry guns and "fight like a cornered cat" when men attempt to rape them, told a gay friend that there was no reason he should have to celebrate "Dead ***'s Day" then started talking about how great the John Birch Society was.
At that point I blocked him and defriended. Found out later he had engaged w/ a couple other gay friends and a Jewish friend over all sorts of conspiracy homophobic b/s and then mysteriously disappeared from FB.

The only explantion I have for his change was him giving up weed.

[Le Taz Hot]

55. That's easy.

I don't have a Facebook account nor any other social media account. Problem solved.

[Mike Nelson]

56. I agree, just ignore...

...if it still bothers you, go to the site and "hide" that organization's posts. I don't because I want to know what they're saying. I don't debate politics on facebook.

[Vinca]

57. I can't imagine having right wing friends. You'd get more intelligence from a turnip.

[DinahMoeHum]

58. I don't have this problem - I don't do Facebook or Twitter.

While I do have a social media presence (for professional reasons only), I tend to be very opinionated, which does not often go down well with people.

But I'll be fucked if I'm going to give a future employer or business client another flimsy excuse to either not hire or do business with me.

Unfortunately, that problem magnifies when one has a Facebook or Twitter account.

And, btw, I know who my REAL friends are - and 95% of the people of FB and TW don't pass the grade at that.

[TheKentuckian]

59. Facebook? Reich Wing friends? FUCK ALL THAT SHIT!

[thecrow]

60. I block the source of their post, not the person.

Invariably, many of their posts are linked to breitbart, world net
daily, fox, or some tea party blog, and that is what I block.
If it's just something a friend is saying, I throw that particular post in the bin, not the people. Most of these people are family members, after all.
But then, I keep my friends list very short, only to people I actually know in real time.

[LWolf]

61. I ignore it. nt

[Stryder]

62. Actual quote

After spending a whole 4 minutes to crush a friends fact free fox induced Obama rant, (Taxes, deficit, immigration...) I get this reply. "As long as it's anti Obama and anti liberal it's true enough for me.I HATE THEM!!!" Thing is he's a pretty nice guy in the real world so that was the last of that. Now I just "Like" pics of his grandkids and such and just scroll past his, shall we say, imaginative posts. Just out of reach that one is. I do have some fence sitters starting to awaken though. So I nudge them when I can but boy do you have to be subtle. We're from a rural area, if you know what I mean.