Quote from: Ratman_tf on March 30, 2025, 03:41:54 PMI sit there and imagine how my leftist friends, ranting at the table about how all conservatives are fascists and how Trump and Elon are Nazis who deserve to die painfully would react if it came up that I voted for Trump, twice.

I would walk out and not talk to them if it were me.  Not for the difference of opinion but the implied threats of not conforming.

I have a fairly non-mainstream sociopolitical philosophy.  Usually I just keep my views to myself.  There have been times where I hear someone ranting about one issue or another and I pay it no mind.  Where I draw the line is when it tips into threats, lies, or dehumanization.  I call that out directly, regardless of the side of the aisle.  If they retract and mellow out, we're all good or otherwise we part company.

I think a lot of traditionalist ideas are bad but usually I can approach with logical arguments and alternative ideas and we can share a beer after the debate.  With the leftists, it's more of a cult like membership or death view.  I wish this wasn't the case, I wish those that have gotten to this point would see that most of us are just people trying to make day by day. 

Quote from: Ratman_tf on March 30, 2025, 03:41:54 PM

Quote from: KindaMeh on March 30, 2025, 11:31:31 AMThat said, I do sometimes play D&D with leftists. Sometimes I even DM for them. I don't disqualify based on personal ideology, or wrong thought, only tangible problems at the table.

Yeah. The issue for me (living in the pacific northwest) is that it's pretty one-sided. I can tolerate lefties if they don't bang on about politics or ideology. But during the course of an evening side topics come up. I sit there and imagine how my leftist friends, ranting at the table about how all conservatives are fascists and how Trump and Elon are Nazis who deserve to die painfully would react if it came up that I voted for Trump, twice. I honestly don't know how such a scenario would shake out. I'm not gonna lie to them, but I'm not going to mention it unless asked directly.
So I game in this funky state where most of the time it's a non-issue, but I'm always mentally prepared for the day when I might have to stop going to the gaming pub if things go badly one night over politics.

I was in the same boat until the local government mandated vaccinations and summer ended so the game had to move into the house.  We had one last game in the car port where I was expecting to be kicked out of the group but we had a nice game then the other unvaccinated guy and I were booted via email the next day.