I just blocked my own brother on Facebook

[liberal N proud]

He was trolling with too much Trump style hate.

[madaboutharry]

1. That is sad.

I am always sorry to hear these stories.

[Dorian Gray]

58. Me too...

though hopefully it's temporary.

Once this election is over, families can go back to publicly barely tolerating each other.

[MountainMazza]

2. Election day can't get here soon enough for

Me....so hard on relationships...😔

[still_one]

3. My unsolicieted recommendations, avoid discussing politics with your brother

[liberal N proud]

8. If only that were possible

He is former military intelligence and has been full of hate for anyone not white and male.

It is he who pollutes the conversion and turns everything political.

[kimbutgar]

4. I'm so sorry the rhetoric of Cheeto has divided your blood family member

This is such a shitty election in so many ways!

[Glamrock]

5. Wife had to block her mom.....

[LenaBaby61]

18. Glamrock ....

Her own Mom?



That's tough. Really, REALLY tough for your wife I know.

[Glamrock]

22. Yep

Although, I'm a hermit. I don't Facebook so I may be speaking incorrectly. She didn't, like, unfriend her or whatever. Maybe blocked her feed? But yeah, her mom's always been a bit nuts.

[m-lekktor]

28. She probably just unfollowed her so she doesn't see what she posts.

When you block you automatically unfriend. They have no idea when you unfollow them unless you tell them.

[Dorian Gray]

59. Yeah

you can ignore feeds for awhile without unfriending them.

My mom has my MIL on ignore.

[obliviously]

31. Every cloud has a silver lining.

[Jim Beard]

6. I never did "Friend" my brother-in-law doctor and do not follow my sister that way it keeps his crap

off my page. Plus I can tell you about how they got most of their income and it wasn't from working.

[liberal N proud]

11. That just it, I never accept his friend request in the first place

I knew it would not be good, but he was trolling anything I posted.

I hardly talk to him for these reasons.

[Cha]

44. Oh wow!

[The Genealogist]

7. I don't discuss politics with my older stepbrother

We've known each other since before I started Kindergarten, and we were best buds before my dad married his mom.

Right now, with political tensions high, we'd probably end up killing each other if we got into a political discussion. I am an avowed liberal progressive, he is an avowed conservative libertarian.

[Agnosticsherbet]

9. My brother does the sme.

So far, I just hide his posts.

[Jim Beard]

10. I try to stay away from thes people year round. They just are not the people I want to communicate

with.

[hfojvt]

12. it does get old

I get hit with probably 7 to 10 anti-Hillary posts per day from various 'friends'.

They do hate Hillary and are not that fond of Hillary supporters either.

[demtenjeep]

13. my sister blocked me. She was tired of me always proving her trump shit wrong

she told me she was tired of me acting like I was always right.


I told her it wasn't me, it was facts

boom, she blocked me

funny thing-she depends on social programs that trump would cut

[Cha]

45. So weird!

[Divine Discontent]

47. people on social programs backing Trump mesmerize me!

My friend has a bunch of friends on social programs, and so many of them are right wing that it'd be laughable if it wasn't sad.

His neighborhood is 90% lock her up/Trump signs, and the few Clinton signs. Most are poor there, or working check to check 'poor', and it is infuriating.

Let's hope we win, and keep them funded and Congress raises taxes on the million & billionaires to help give them a raise...

[world wide wally]

14. Had to hang up on my brother a few days ago

So, I can relate.

[leftyladyfrommo]

64. I don't do Facebook but this is sad.

I can't remember a time when our country was so devidence.

Fortunately my only family member is really anti Trump.

[Wounded Bear]

15. I may have been blocked by a nephew...

he's been posting some Trump stuff. I pointed out that Trump was an asshole and that I would never vote for him.

Have seen much else lately.

[kevinbgoode1]

16. I'm close to doing that to an aunt

I swear she "shares" just about every wingnut "news" site possible and the breathlessly joins the manufactured, fabricated drama.

So far I'm just blocking the posts. . .

[Divine Discontent]

48. I have a good friend out in CO

and I don't talk to her but one time during elections, right around the spring, then it's radio silence until after, because she's hardcore GOP, and this year would have been awful trying to talk to her as we used to do in person when I lived near, because I often would correct her "email forward" lies of the GOP candidate, but Trump is a whole other level of monstrosity!!!

[ebbie15644]

17. I I friended my sister months ago

[jg10003]

19. How I deal with my pro Trump brother;

1) I avoid any discussion of politics.
2) I remind myself that he is basically a good person who is always there when his family needs him.
3) I remember that he had some bad experiences with LSD in the 1970's and since then hasn't been quite right in the head.

[mnhtnbb]

21. I unfriended my sister in law back in the Bush days.

My brother would probably be in the same state if he were on fb, but he's not.

They're both Republicans, but 4 out of their 5 kids are Dems.

[Divine Discontent]

51. ha! glad the majority of the kids disagree with their politics

[C_U_L8R]

23. I have a sister circling the Trump drainpipe

Biting my lip - it's hard to witness.
Not a lot you can do to fight the delusion.

[LenaBaby61]

24. Lucky me ...

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I don't know anyone whose voting tRump. I have friends whose relatives are voting for tRump, but personally NO ONE I know is voting for tRump.

I admit that I'm no world traveler, however I know a fair amount of people and NONE of them are supporting that orange, lying, misogynistic, racist POS tRump. I know people who aren't voting in this upcoming election, and people writing in alternative names for POTUS living in Deep blue states. But NO ONE voting for tRump (But then again, I live in the suburbs of Los Angeles County

[GWC58]

25. I get out

taking my son to school, then pick him up. I haven't been on FB in almost five years. I can count the friends I have on one hand, after subtracting four fingers and a thumb.🤕 I am a homebody.

[cilla4progress]

26. You can remain FB friends and just

Unfollow so you don't get their posts. My MO.

[roamer65]

29. Yeah. I filter anyone who posts pro-Drumpf crap.

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It's kinder than unfriending and I don't have see their spew.

I've done it to family members, no remorse at all.

[Eggy]

27. This election is exposing the worst in people

I was shocked to hear from a friend that he votes and donates to trump, and he has always been passionate about public service. I once thought he was a compassionate person, but as it turns out his compassion is only reserved for people who look like him.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

30. Good for you... no doubt he deserved it.

[gwheezie]

32. My brother still invades my feed

He supports trump. He has always been odd but I love him. Whenever he posts about how devious cunning & murderous Hillary is I tell him trump is a wimpy baby & we need just the kind of strong leader who can murder dozens of enemies & get foreign enemies to give her money & never face financial ruin while doing it in heels.

[SDOPINION]

33. I get it

I unfollowed my brother-in-law. ...replied once to one of his posts and after that just unfollowed him. I have had difficulty listening to Trump supporters...to me Trump just represents hate and hypocrisy.

[renate]

49. welcome to DU!

[texanwitch]

34. I cleaned house with this election.

I really do not want to be around any Republican type.

I did make a few new friends.

I don't miss the old ones.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

35. Ugh, that's too bad. I've only lost "friends" over politics in the past.

One "friend" kept e-mailing me very nasty anti-Kerry messages in 2004, multiple times a day, despite me asking him to stop it. I blocked his e-mail and haven't talked to him ever since.

[romanic]

36. That's sad.

This election is tearing this nation and families apart. :[

[rusty quoin]

37. Reading all of these posts makes me know that the other side belongs to a cult.

Friends and relatives who were normal in the past, have given up logic. They are true believers.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

39. Yep. I've had Republican co-workers who insisted that the break room TV...

... be turned to FOX News during lunch breaks. Most people just let them get their way, but sometimes early arrivals wouldn't budge. The rule of thumb seemed to be that the remote control was first come, first served.

It's not like they were forced to watch MSNBC or something. The non-budgers were usually watching a comedy or something.

Regardless, those Republicans acted like drug addicts who needed a "fix," and they would often eat lunch in their cars so they could listen to conservative talk radio instead!

[rusty quoin]

41. Ive tried to listen to progressive talk radio for a decade plus.

It is nothing like listening to Rush. He is everywhere and progressive talk has been impossible to get on terrestrial radio.

Rush and people like him have brainwashed a generation and more.

In the late 80s, rush was known as as a joke entertainer. In the 90s he changed a generation of white guys from kind of normal to crazy. I wasn't paying much attention since I had young kids.

But I now know the damage he has done.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

42. There's a movie titled "The Brainwashing of My Dad" that...

... delves into the Limbaugh effect on some people.

I've seen it with my own eyes over the years. I worked for a temp service in the 80's at a factory that was full of people making minimum wage. It was HARD work for low pay. One guy started playing Limbaugh on his portable radio at lunch (the first time that I ever heard him), and it wasn't long thereafter that I heard many of them blaming their low wages on the company's "high taxes" supposedly used to support "lazy people on welfare."

I think there was a behavioral scientist interviewed in that movie who explained how it was strangely addictive for some people too. The movie director's father had been affected more deeply than politically, but emotionally as well.

SPOILER: It had a "happy ending." Once he was finally "cut off" from the conservative propaganda by his wife (the director's mother), the man's entire demeanor changed -- he was happier and less hateful.

[rusty quoin]

43. I bought it on amazon and waited years for it to come out.

I know what happened, but i still cannot believe it happened. I had a problem thinking most people thought like me.

I know better now, and know most white people, like me, do not think like me.

It is bad.

[warrprayer]

38. Sad...

Trump is tearing the country apart.

Putin is gleeful.

[Lucinda]

40. I've got my account set so I don't see the posts of a few people

or I would have unfriended/blocked one or two myself.
Sorry it happened to you...

[Quantess]

46. Did you know that you can post things only visible to certain people?

There a few different ways to do this. Blocking someone sounds so extreme and unnecessary.

[Mike Nelson]

52. Facebook...

...is full of disgusting posts. There are various reasons why some of my friends and a couple relatives like Trump and/or dislike Hillary. Some are against politics and some are doing well financially and "want to keep" their money (the co-called fiscal conservatives). A few friends fall into the bigot category. I can't tolerate them... they are the "deplorable" and "irredeemables" Hillary was talking about... I'm not sure they will change. Still, if someone is a brother, you have a shared childhood and there may be some hope.

I think, after the election, the hate will get worse, not better. Republicans main objective was to make sure Obama failed. Their new goal will be to make sure Hillary fails.

[HenryJ]

53. Your first mistake was doing Facebook at all. n/t

[liberal N proud]

63. I know, but once you are down that rabbit hole

I have used for legitimate purpose as well as the mindless crap.

[KrazyinKS]

54. I can feel for you-

I have not blocked m sister and childhood friend yet, I just block posts from certain websites. That has been a daily thing. There I was looking at a video of my grandson posted from my daughter and right below it is some right wing thing from my sister. I let it ruin my whole day. I no longer will do that. No news until after the election.

[babylonsister]

55. And I got blocked by a 'dear friend'

for posting too much anti-trump info. I guess the truth really does hurt, though this hurt me.

I thought we were friends...

[BainsBane]

56. Block, as in unfriend?

You can unfollow someone but still remain FB friends with them. That way you don't see what they post.

[liberal N proud]

62. I had unfriendly him long time ago.

He didn't stop posting on anything I commented on with his political hate.

[DinahMoeHum]

57. Reason No. 5401 why I don't do Twitter or Facebook. . .

I don't swim in dirty water.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

60. I use FB Purity as a Chrome extension

I have Trump as one of the words that I filter from my friends feed. I like it because I can still see the civil things my friends post and I don't have to see their dark side.

[maryellen99]

61. I've unfollowed some of my husbands family and have hidden a lot of their posts

They haven't come out and said they are voting for Trump but a lot of their posts have been pro cop,anti BLM,anti Kaepernick,Pro Life,and now one has posted something pro DAPL. I think if they knew I was liberal and voting for HRC they would hate me.

[drray23]

65. I am lucky that everybody in my family is a dem.

We are latte drinking, prius driving, tree hugging democrats. As far as my friends, i do not associate with right wingers so thats easy as well.