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 Some guy randomly walked up to me while I was out with the dog and within a couple of minutes he started asking me questions about my political views. I realized my perspectives had changed so much over the past few years that I probably sounded crazy to him when I told him how much I had opted out of the two party system and how nothing will get better until we fix the money. I avoided mentioning bitcoin though, because I was too tired to have that conversation today and I didn’t want to break his brain. 
 Ok, but who walks up randomly and asks about your political affiliations? 🤣 
 The real question. Super sus 🤣 
 Yeah 
 Political canvassing 📋 
 Didn’t seem like that. Maybe he was just lonely because he’s very annoying. 
 Oh, yeah … maybe he was lonely. 😔 
 What an odd question to ask. 
 It was a follow up to my answer about his first question about something almost unrelated. 
 Very nice of you to not break his brain but did you ever consider that it may have been a fed? Who just goes up to random strangers and asks for their political views? 😂😂 
 Interesting that he started right away with the political views. I find this happens more often while visiting other countries. Was he a tourist? 
 wanted a politics fight off the bat, last question people ask strangers 🫨 
 Wise move.
In time you won’t even need to avoid it because you’ll think I’ve already tried orange pilling people for so long, the messaging is already out there. You’ll very selectively discuss by who the person is 
 Yeah, no point in engaging NPCs in the park. 😆 
 sounds like you met a weirdo 
 You got that right.