# Idiots who insert political comments in non-political topics

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**Created:** [July 21, 2022, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiots-who-insert-political-comments-in-non-political-topics/968349 "2022-07-21T21:57:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 18, 2023, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiots-who-insert-political-comments-in-non-political-topics/968349/41 "2023-02-18T14:46:25Z")

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There’d be less gratuitous insertion of political snipes if some subjects hadn’t already been polluted with politics, like anti-pandemic measures.

> [@XOldiesJock](#):
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> Maybe a dozen years ago I was a member of a Facebook group that was local people talking about growing up locally and the people and places they remembered. It was a very happy group of friendly strangers. Then one day one member essentially said that we’d still have something (I don’t know what) were it not for Obama and those Democrats. Within an hour this previously friendly group was at each other’s throats.

It’s an old story. A French cartoon dating from the height of the Dreyfus Affair shows a peaceful dinner gathering with the patriarch at the head of the table warning the family not to talk about it. Unfortunately they did not follow his advice.

[![](https://www.developpement-durable-lavenir.com/images/developpementdurable/Caran-d-ache-dreyfus-supper.jpg) ](https://www.developpement-durable-lavenir.com/images/developpementdurable/Caran-d-ache-dreyfus-supper.jpg)

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