On being friends with people who have very different ethical/political views from my own

It used to be easier to have friends with different ideas. I always did. But nowadays the woke totalitarians have become ridiculously intollerant with anybody who doesn't agree with them. I think it's just a phase. Many people are starting to realize that wokeness is just hateful nonsense mascherading as politics.

In general, I avoid talking about politics with friends. But on a few occasions I did stop seeing certain friends cause they had become so misandrist that I could not just stay there hearing they hate men so much.

But it all depends on how good friends you were to begin with. If we're talking about a long time friend, the key is just to talk about other things and avoid politics. If we're talking about acquaintances, then it's better to just not talk to them. I've had both.

One of my best friends from school is super totalitarian. She's very misandrist and quite hateful towards anybody who doesn't think like her or doesn't embody the woke standards. And she even commited 2 abortions and said she kind of sympathised with Bin Laden (cause, you know, many woke Europeans like her dislike America to the point of sympathasing with anybody who humiliates the US... even murderers...🤮). So she certainly wouldn't be my friend if we met now. But on the other hand I know her since we were 4 years old, and we have lived many experiences together as kids and teenagers, so with her we just avoid politics and chat about other things, because we value each other's friendship despite ideology. But if I met someone now who thought like her, I would simply avoid her.

So I guess political digression is an obstacle for friendship, but if the friendship is old enough you can just ignore it. You just have to ask yourself if that person is important to you or not.