Do you discuss Brexit with friends or avoid the subject completely?

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Just curious.

We're out for dinner tonight with two other couples - I'll be the only remainer amongst the six of us …… could be an interesting night, esp with drinks flowing.

There's a surprising lack of discussion about it in my social circle. I think we are still in shock that we're actually doing it, combined with feeling utterly powerless. I mean really, what's the point of discussing it? We can't change anything now, it's just a case of waiting to see how things pan out.

{We can't change anything now, it's just a case of waiting to see how things pan out.}
You are not powerless, write/email your MP (writing is better) and forbid them to vote for 'no deal'.
Whether you personally would prefer WA or Revoke is up to you but there will be nothing good if the UK crashes out with no deal.

I talk about it with my friends all the time, because I’m trying to stop it.
I also live in a naturally remain bubble and couldn’t be friends with people who still think leaving is a good idea.
And for those who are incredulous at that - could you be friends with people who were fine with doing things that caused you physical harm? Because I am genuinely worried that the drugs that keep me healthy (which are manuafactured abroad, have a short shelf life and so are imported regularly) will not be available. My consultants and the hospital are not able to provide reassurance that I and the few thousand other people on this treatment in UK will be able to continue to get them, and the pharma companies won’t tell me as they have gagging orders from govt.

This is not project fear, this is genuine fear. Leavers who just dismiss it aren’t my friends

I think it needs to be considered whether any discussion around the topic would be conducted in a civilised and respectful manner.

Very much this!! My best friend and I have opposing political views (although on some things like most politicians being twats only out for themselves we do agree!) and one of us voted leave and one remain. We both still stand by how we voted.

We often discuss politics and Brexit but NEVER argue and things never get heated, we respect each other's views.

However, I have another friend who voted differently to me and she is very vocal about her views and how she views "the other side". I would never in a million years discuss Brexit with her, not because of how she voted but because I know she'd turn into a judgemental "my view is the only right one" knobhead and I'd have to sit on my hands not to punch her in the face

The trouble is whenever I discuss Brexit with people who support it I can't respect their views because they lack any logic.

I don't agree with most Tory policies but during a discussion I can argue points and economics and the nature of humanity. I don't agree with them, I don't like their views but there is some internal logic to their argument.

When Brexit supporters make points they are usually ludicrous and very easily disproven. I can't respect someone saying something that is just clearly wrong and easy to disprove.

So no I don't discuss Brexit in the real world.

You are not powerless, write/email your MP (writing is better) and forbid them to vote for 'no deal'.

I've done that, but I still feel powerless. I don't want to leave the EU at all, but we are and that's that. Writing to my local mp has never resulted in him voting the way I want ever so I don't feel the least bit empowered by writing to him anyway.

I talk about it if the subject is broached by someone else, I am not a shouty aggressive type, so can have a conversation about it in RL without any issue. I won't agree with things that are not factually true though, but I can do it with a

Not really. Myself and my husband even had differing views. He voted leave, I voted stay.
We had real arguments about the vote because when it became apparent we had differing views on where we sat, it became apparent we would virtually be cancelling out one another's votes.

I don't speak to our parents about it because our parents voted the way they did with very little care for the real issues,
MIL voted stay because of Isis, FIL voted the same way as MIL. My father, well he voted leave because he wanted everyone to see the government has been lying to us. He says the red tape doesn't come from the EU, and everyone will realise that when we leave.