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Small-Scale Question Sunday for February 15, 2026

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How do you handle it when people ask for your political opinions in real life?

I had a woman ask me suddenly, out of the blue, "who did you vote for in the last election?" We were having a nice conversation before that point (not like, a meet-cute instant love or antyhing, but at least it was a good conversation). I answered truthfully that I had just recently changed my address at that time, so I didn't vote, because I was dealing with a lot and it just wasn't worth the effort for me of updating my voter info on top of everything else. She instantly made an annoyed face and turned away, never to talk to me again. She was obviously a liberal- god help me if I had said I voted for Trump. But like, what are we supposed to do in these situations? Is it just impossible to talk to people with different political opinions now?

How do you handle it when people ask for your political opinions in real life?

If you want to have fun, just pretend to be completely ignorant about the issue.

A: Do you stand with Upper Trashcanistan?

B: Trash... whatever, what is it? Some new restaurant or fast food place in the town?

Then watch how your interlocutor ties himself to knots desperately trying to explain the issue in five seconds.

So you just pretend like you don't know who Trump is or what the US presidential election is? how does that usually work out for you.

I remember some online poll where Americans were asked about various public figures, there were options like/dislike/no opinion/never heard about them.

Cannot find it right now (might be misremembered)

About 2% claimed to never heard about Donald Trump, the lizardman number.

If true, these are the happiest people and we all could just envy them.

The whole point of the lizardman number is that it's probably not true. People sometimes lie or misclick or troll on polls.

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