Friends

[Jolly]

https://nypost.com/2025/02/24/opinion/friendship-in-america-is-in-freefall-and-its-killing-us/

[taiwan_girl]

Interesting opinion piece. Japan struggles with it, but a lot is due to the aging population. Much harder to make close friends as a person gets older, and as the close friends you have begin to pass on, the circle gets even smaller.

[Horace]

I'm open minded and open hearted to anybody, as long as they have identical political beliefs to me.

[Mik]

I cannot imagine choosing friends based on their political positions.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Mik said in Friends:

I cannot imagine choosing friends based on their political positions.

As long as they have a firm grasp of the The Lord of the Rings, chess opening theory and/or Western musical harmony, we don't need to talk about what an asshole their politician of choice is.

I tell you, Friday nights at Chez Phibes are really something. Well, they would be if anybody ever came round.

[Renauda]

@Mik said in Friends:

I cannot imagine choosing friends based on their political positions.

I have cast off at least five rabid Putin sympathizers as friends. Also distanced myself from a couple of NDP supporters over their vocal support of Hamas and the Palestinian cause.

[Tom-K]

Hey! Aren't we all friends? So I guess I'm covered for a long life!